I chose this topic because for personal and professional reasons. As young child I experienced high levels of anxiety that effected my learning. However, they didn't have a name for it and just classified me as having a learning disability. Having this label only brought on more stress and my grades began to suffer even more. Now that I have four children of my own I want to be able to recognize the signs and help my children if they began to experience anxiety and stress. Professionally wise; I want to be able to help more children. More children are finding themselves in stressful situations and experiencing stress at a young age. Many times their parents and EC professionals aren't aware of the stress and classify it as a behavioral issue. I want to learn more about stress so I can be a better EC professional.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Stress on young children
During
this week I was doing a lot research to decide on which subtopic I wanted to
chose for the research simulation. Out of
the three subtopics I chose how stress can effect young children's learning and
developmental processes.
I chose this topic because for personal and professional reasons. As young child I experienced high levels of anxiety that effected my learning. However, they didn't have a name for it and just classified me as having a learning disability. Having this label only brought on more stress and my grades began to suffer even more. Now that I have four children of my own I want to be able to recognize the signs and help my children if they began to experience anxiety and stress. Professionally wise; I want to be able to help more children. More children are finding themselves in stressful situations and experiencing stress at a young age. Many times their parents and EC professionals aren't aware of the stress and classify it as a behavioral issue. I want to learn more about stress so I can be a better EC professional.
So
far, for my simulation, I have just research a lot articles and found a lot of
information about different stressors and how theses stressors can effect young
children, how their development, and how they learn. I found one article about how the classroom
and its environment can cause stress. I found
that to be really interesting.
Does
anyone have any advice or insight you would like to share? I am open to all. Thanks in advance.
I chose this topic because for personal and professional reasons. As young child I experienced high levels of anxiety that effected my learning. However, they didn't have a name for it and just classified me as having a learning disability. Having this label only brought on more stress and my grades began to suffer even more. Now that I have four children of my own I want to be able to recognize the signs and help my children if they began to experience anxiety and stress. Professionally wise; I want to be able to help more children. More children are finding themselves in stressful situations and experiencing stress at a young age. Many times their parents and EC professionals aren't aware of the stress and classify it as a behavioral issue. I want to learn more about stress so I can be a better EC professional.
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It is important that you are able to research and become aware of it, so that you will be able to face it head on with your children if problems should occur. That is a very positive aspect of researching various topics.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested to read about the discoveries that you make. As a special educator in the early childhood field I feel that some of my students have stress that I am not aware of. I would love to have strategies to use with these students in order to allow them to be the best students that they can be.
ReplyDeleteHello Dawn,
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate your blog information. I agree with you about how stress plays so much on a child's development. Although I believe there is good stress and bad stress, I do believe that too much of either can tax a young child's development in a negative way. I have seem so many children fall prey to situation that create a mountain of stress for a young child. I have a family member that I have tried without success to point out how much stress their child is experiencing while certain members of their family is engaged in loud and vicious sounding agreements. I witnessed the child sitting in a chair with her hands over her ears with the look in her face as if to say please stop!!