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ISSUES AND CHALLENGE IN PROMOTING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD -…
ISSUES AND CHALLENGE IN PROMOTING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
SEPARATE / DIVORCE FAMILY
Nana, Sze Mun, Angel, Dhaarshini, Priya
CHALLENGE AND IMPACT
Loss of Interest in Social Activity
Difficulty Adapting to Change
Emotionally Sensitive
Increase in Health Problems
1.Poor Performance in Academics
Having difficulty developing relationship with other
SOLUTION
Spend time together even after divorce by doing what activities that the children love to do.
Ask children their true feeling when doing something new to them
Encourage the children to talk to adult/ someone who they feel comfortable about their problems.
Avoid blame and don't share any negative feelings the adults have. Remind them that they're loved by both parents.
Parents show support to their children's learning .
Give children some time and let them feel comfortable to build the relationship
ARTICLE SHARING
NEWS:
The New York Times(1986), the persistent high divorce rate is leading to a widespread problem of child neglect, according to a number of new studies on the long-term impact of divorce upon children.
Link:
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/28/style/divorced-parents-and-the-neglected-child.html
BLOG/WEBSITE:
Link:
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/effects-of-divorce-on-children#social-withdrawal
RESEARCH:
Children of divorced or separated parents exhibit increased behavioral problems and the marital conflict that accompanies parents’ divorce places the child’s social competence at risk.
Related American Demographics
According to the National Survey of Children's Health, children who live with both biological parents are less likely to exhibit behavior problems than those who do not.
Link:
http://marripedia.org/effects.of.divorce.on.children.s.behavior
CHILDREN WITH ILLNESS/DISEASE
Agnes，Jacinda，Poh Yee，Puvel
CHALLENGE AND IMPACT
Chronic illness included cystic fibrosis (a hereditary disease characterized by lung disease and problems with the pancreas), diabetes, arthritis, skin inflammation eczema, and asthma.
Depression can lead to low achievement, social isolation, and problems getting along with their peers.
Autism Spectrum Disorder affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction of the child educational performance
Child might see themselves as different from other children, and they hate this
children with pain and physical restrictions
Children with chronic illness might be experiencing delays in their social, emotional, language, cognitive skills, communication, general knowledge, and physical wellbeing.
SOLUTION
Play therapy can support children to learn and understand more about their own feelings and thoughts.
Encourage children to share thoughts and feelings about dealing with the illness. Understand your child’s thoughts and feelings may change over time, and help them cope by providing a distraction, remaining active, encouraging social interactions and being positive.
Teachers should carry out some group activities where the child with illness or disease involved along with other normal children.
Reward children for daily cooperation with medical management, tasks, or for taking age-appropriate responsibility
Should teach children or be open with other children about the child's illness.
Interacting through physical activity can help children with ASD tend to have short attention spans. Playing outside may be a better way of sharing time together, explore around, let them relax and feel calmer.
ARTICLE SHARING
NEWS: Chronic Illness May Affect a Child's Social Development(
https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20000622/chronic-illness-social-development
)
BLOG/WEBSITE: Social, Emotional and Behaviors disorders. (
https://www.a4pt.org/page/SocialEmotionalBehav
)
RESERACH: Chronic illness affects young children’s development
(
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/family/article/2016/04/13/chronic-illness-affects-young-childrens-development
)
Faezah, Hiew Wan, Kar Wen, Li Ting, Yin Nee
MENTAL HEALTH IN ECE TEACHER
SOLUTION
Talk to the people or colleagues that you trust.
Get yourself moving or do some physical exercises.
Surround a positive community and seek for help such as psychotherapy.
Provide a wellbeing hub or corner that consists of useful resources that can boost teachers' wellbeing.
Join an exercise program with a personal coach to track their body health and progress of their healthy diet.
Bring fun into the classroom. Enjoy the little things.
ARTICLE SHARING
NEWS: 77% of teachers felt poor mental health was having a damaging effect on children's mental health, and 85% said that it adversely affected the quality of lesson planning.
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/teacher-mental-health-matters/60935/
BLOG/WEBSITE: Children react to and learn from teacher's negative mood, behavioural modeling and poor self-regulation due to their psychological distress. The depressive symptoms of the teacher prohibit her to provide positive emotional and behavioural support to children.
https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/3912-early-childhood-teachers-well-being-what-we-know-and-why-we-should-care
RESEARCH : the mental state of teachers affects how they understand social and emotional development of a child. This will in turn affect the developmental outcomes of children significantly.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1287736.pdf
CHALLENGE AND IMPACT
The teachers will experiences sleeping problems (insomnia) which affect the teaching and learning process in school.
The teachers may feel stressed and burned out.
Educator might be diagnosed with depression. Uncontrollable emotions.
5.(Physical well-being) Chronic illnesses such as obesity , back pain and headaches.
Unhealthy body ( lose weight, hormone imbalance, etc) . This will lead to a poor performance during the lesson.
Managing disruptive classroom behaviors effect educator's mental health.
POOR FACILITIES AND RESOURCES AT CHILD CARE
CHALLENGE AND IMPACT
Inconsistent or non-existent emotional support or comfort can lead to the child becoming withdrawn and acting out as the child would not know how to control their own emotions.
Poor resources and facilities at child care causes negative impacts on children's health, social, emotional and cognitive development, behaviour and educational outcomes.
Lack of materials and resources may hinder a child's development to become motivated
Students lacking the adequate supplies can cause them to waste their learning potential and turn into mischievous children that have lost interest in school.
The lack of good childcare can keep women from returning to work after childbirth, limit the quality or quantity of employment and earning opportunities, which can result in substantial negative impacts on family welfare
Working with art materials supports the development of fine motor skills, which has a large impact on a child's ability to write. Without resources, it will effect a child's physical development.
SOLUTION
Educators and parents may take part in the childcare training program and understand what od the proper facilities and resources required at childcare
Parents could donate some of their storybooks from home to the child care to form a small library. This way the children can read the storybooks together and discuss their contents.
Use parental involvement. Parents with artistic abilities can assist in making materials and doing some arts and crafts with the children in the child care so that they become close to each other.
Increase funding for facilities in child care and improve the quality of the early childhood environment so that children are in a comfortable and safe environment.
Communities and child care centers partner to hold fundraising event to allow child care to increase facilities. For example, create a simple playground. This will allow the children to play together and learn to take turns playing with the playground facilities.
Teachers can do games without using resources, such as "Eagle catch Chick", a game in which only the children participate and the children can have fun and learn the importance of cooperation with other children.
ARTICLE SHARING
NEWS:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/03/04/nearly-350-million-children-lack-quality-childcare-in-the-world
BLOG/WEBSITE:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/early-childhood-development-the-promise-the-problem-and-the-path-forward/
RESEARCH :
https://www.child-encyclopedia.com/child-care-early-childhood-education-and-care/according-experts/child-care-and-its-impact-young-1
