Child rearing
Is a collection of methods that are relied upon to guide children’s behavior properly and correctly. It is also known as instilling a set of values and ethics in the child’s personality, making it able to distinguish between the right and wrong things and trying to teach him all the basic skills that contribute In developing his personality at every age.
dealing with Children
Is the method, or combination of methods that enhance the role of effective communication between parents and children. And the more successful this communication in the connection between them contributed to the promotion of child rearing, and knows dealing with children also understanding the nature of the child’s behavior, by asking him what he wants, In order to work to meet their needs, solve problems, or difficulties in the home, kindergarten or school.
Methods of raising and dealing with children
There are a variety of methods that contribute to the upbringing of children, and help to apply the best ways to deal with them. The most important of these methods:
Ethical upbringing
Is one of the most important educational methods, which aims to help the child to develop his ability to distinguish between the right things, and wrong, and considers the psychologist Jean Piaget, Lawrence Kollberg first interested in studying this method, the moral formation is divided into a range of levels:
- Pre-traditional virtue is the set of morals that children acquire since the age of the year for ten years. They depend on seeing other people, especially parents, toward the right things, which are considered absolute virtues for them.
- Traditional virtue: is the set of ethics acquired by children after the age of ten years, and it shows a gray space in thinking between right and wrong, and the child is able to recognize the right things alone.
- Post-Conventional Virtue: A set of ethics that is taken on the basis of individual decisions, based on previous levels of moral upbringing, and not related to a particular age.
Promote good behavior
Is one of the most important educational means in raising children, dealing with them, and depends on the application of a set of strategies, namely:
- Be careful to provide rewards to them when good behavior.
- Give children more choices to do something, such as asking the child to arrange his or her room now, or after an hour, and so feels that he has personal, moral value.
- Help the child use appropriate words when he wants to express himself.
Evaluation of bad behavior
Is one of the means to meet the means of promoting good behavior, which contributes to the elimination of bad behavior, and depends on a set of strategies, namely:
- Ask the child to stop the bad behavior, and then try to correct it based on the use of simple, understandable words.
- Keep away from emotion, be careful to overcome anger as much as possible, so as not to lead to a common scream with the child.
- Use a playful method, that is, change a child’s bad behavior, drawing on his attention to something new.