School-age children are an important turning point in their psychological development, as their schooling is the starting point for their social development, and their living environment and interpersonal relationships have undergone significant changes, which play an important role in their psychological development. The psychological characteristics of this period are the increased excitement of brain activity, the reduction of sleep time, the expansion of personal activities, the gradual transformation of thinking from concrete image thinking to abstract thinking, and the gradual formation of personality. However, this stage still retains traces of early childhood in terms of psychological personality, with passivity in cognitive activities, concrete image thinking still plays an important role in the thinking process, and children are still unable to suppress their emotions well and are still easily agitated. Good mental health has the following aspects.
1. Children must have good habits
As we all know, at that preschool age, it is necessary to develop basic habits of life. Like eating habits, sleep habits, exercise habits, including behavior habits, and hygiene habits, these habits should be developed from an early age. This frankly is actually part of the development of children’s intelligence, we now have a good number of parents will be one-sided view, will be a lot of English words is high intelligence, in fact, that is a very, very small aspect of learning good children are not necessarily able-bodied children, so we say to have good habits.
2. Children should have a normal psychological quality
The normal psychological quality is expressed in, not too afraid of anything, not anxious when encountering things, and one more, a certain adaptability to society.
3. Children should have individuality
Nowadays, the pressure of life is so great, the future of the children to go to society after the pressure is very important to cultivate children’s self-esteem, self-confidence, many people who have achieved must first have self-confidence, believe in society, believe in themselves, and then to succeed, but also willing to help others, to be optimistic, to life is full of sunshine. Why many children do not have intellectual problems, anti-social phenomenon, in fact, and his attitude to life is very related.
4. Children should have a certain curiosity and memory
The child is required to learn things to remember, to want the child to remember curiosity is very important, if there is no curiosity children are not interested in this, learning anything can not remember, of course, this curiosity needs our parents to guide him, cultivate, this is an aspect of mental health.
5. Children must be good at parenting interaction with peers to interact well with each other in harmony, no serious jealousy, no bullying small, bullying weak psychology.
Prevention of poor mental health
1. Too much care: afraid to let go of the child’s independent activities, so that the child’s character becomes passive, dependent, lack of responsibility and endurance, difficult to adapt to the collective life, indecisive, opinionless bad will and quality.
2. Too spoiled: easy to cause children to pampering, unbridled, neurotic, self-centered and other adverse psychological qualities.
3. Too indifferent: so that children do not get the necessary caress and guidance, will become like to cause trouble, behavior is prone to aggression, some appear indifferent feelings, lack of love.
4. Excessive severity: The lack of internal emotional communication with children leads to two extremes of timidity and avoidance or violent resistance, making children develop bad habits of self-protection and lying and inconsistency.
5. Enthusiasm or coldness erratic: will cause children’s emotional instability, suspicious and anxious, lack of judgment. The formation of children’s psychological character, the influence of parents play an important role. Parents should be loving, strict and democratic to their children, so that they can develop a warm, lively, dignified, independent, collaborative, good with others, and socially well-adjusted character. School education can compensate for the shortcomings of family education, as long as the family and school cooperate with each other, so that children can develop physically and mentally normally.
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