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.