by Yuvi - November 14, 2020

B.Ed First Year Notes English Medium

Method for helping in maintaining emotional balance

Educational implications of emotional development:

Usually children express many emotions link anger, fear, jealousy, affection, joy, pleasure, etc. Positive emotions help the child to develop a positive outlook about life.
The following methods are offered to help children in maintaining emotional balance.

Fatigue:

Tired children are difficult to handle. Therefore, efforts may be made not to cause undue fatigue to them.

Poor health:

Children in poor health are irritable. Hence the health of children should be properly looked after.

Association with emotional people:

Children imitate the behavior of year elder’s parents, teachers and other adults and peer groups. Suitable examples should be presented by the elders.

Thwarted desires:

The more restrictions are imposed on the child, the lore revolting he becomes. This means that a suitable disciplinary mechanism bold be evolved.

Unpreparedness:

A child shows emotional outbursts when he is faced it a strange situation or for which he is not prepared. Proper training to ice such situations needs to be given gradually.

Expression of feelings:

Children should be helped to express their emotions la natural way. They should be helped to develop a realistic understanding of tuitions that arouse unpleasantness.

Itself-control:

Children should be helped to learn how to control their Feelings which may offend others. They should be gradually directed to exercise more of self-control.

Counselling:

Counselling may be useful in cases of a highly disturb emotional state of the mind.