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What are emotion cards and their effect on psychological development of children?

What are emotion cards? Emotion cards are a helpful tool for teaching children emotions and supporting emotional development. Each card consist of an emoji or face drawing representing an emotion on one side; which is suitable for children to understand at early ages. With these cards, it easier to explain children the emotions that they feel but can’t label. You can create games in order to keep children’s attention active and fasten the learning process. How does emotional development work for babies? Since the day that they’ve been born, babies feel emotions like discomfort, relaxation, fear, pleasure etc. but their […]

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Attention Deficiency in Children

Attention Deficit / Deficiency is now considered as a subtitle of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder rather than an independent diagnosis. The name of this subtitle is; It is a careless species. The other two subtitles of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder are the predominantly Hyperactive / Impulsive Species and Mixed Species. Symptoms of Attention Disorder in Children Children may have various symptoms of Attention Deficit / Deficiency, including: problems in following instructions given by parents, teachers or teachers; being at home and at school, losing materials, making simple mistakes, scattered work desks and lockers in the school, problems in […]

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Reason for Escaping from School: Bullying

When schools are starting, some children might insist on not going to school. When explanations like worries about lectures, fear of being separated from home or difficult relationship with teachers are not enough or correct, bullying is the first thing that should come to your mind. Especially small children might not understand bullying and can’t tell it to their parents since their cause-result relationship is limited. Therefore, parents should examine peer relationships at school if they observe any of following behaviours; not wanting to attend to school or school activities, too many physical excuses (headache, feeling sick etc.) stubbornness before […]

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Transition to Adolescence

What is Adolescence? Puberty is the process of hormonal and bodily changes in children. In addition to biological development, adolescent period includes psychological development and psychosocial maturation. What is the height growth in puberty? When puberty begins, children have reached 80-85% of their adult height. When girls became menarche, they have already gained about 97% of their adult height. In adolescence, the total length of the girls is 16-25cm and the length of the boys is 20-28cm. The closing rate of the pineal plaque is not the same in all adolescents, so the length and duration of elongation varies. Growth […]

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Spending Quality Time with Children

In recent years, studies have discovered that the quality of time spend with children is as important as the amount of time. There are different insight on how these ‘quality times’ should be created. When both parents work, spending enough time with children becomes a quite important issue. However, it is not necessary parents to worry about that topic, since it is possible to do more activities in a shorter, better quality time than a long empty day. As in all human relationships, it is quite important to spend the time with open communication and emotional interaction in child – […]

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Is My Child Ready for School?

Parents’ primary concern is always making the best decisions for their children starting by birth. It is generally accepted that children who don’t have troubles in the first few years, cope with academic life easier. Until primary school, development stages are generally based on basic skills and abilities. However, primary school is the beginning of an era which is sustained by those skills. Children’s perception of themselves as successful or not is about starting primary school when they are ready. Factors like intelligence level, social and emotional development and parents’ attitude affect maturity for primary school. When deciding on starting […]

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Cognitive Development for Children

Cognitive development includes thinking process, memory capacity, ability to solve problems, language and senses like seeing, tasting, hearing, and touching. Mental development means children to see and observe the world with their senses and understand it. Cognitive development starts in mother’s tummy and continues until adulthood. It is especially fast in the first year of the baby in the world and depends on the interaction with the surroundings. Therefore, it is quite important to know each step of cognitive development, what to expect from child at every stage and see possible problems in advance. In this article, you can find […]

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10 Advices for Raising Children Who Can Fight Difficulties

Some of us fall down during the challenges we face, and stay on the ground, but some of us can stand up even more powerful than before. What is the difference then between people who fall and can’t stand up and those who can survive storms every time more powerfully? Why some of us stay there when we fall down and some of us can born out of their ashes? Resilience means for someone, the ability to . In psychology, the term is began to be used for representing not giving up, the power of beating difficulties, quick self-recovery, psychological […]

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Emotional Development for Babies

Basis of emotional development is being able to understand own emotions, control and interpret them correctly, learn to express them correctly, understand other’s emotions and respond them appropriately. Emotional development is critical for children to build healthy relationships, know themselves and become healthy individuals. Every children’s character and way of interpret surroundings are different, therefore their response to stimulants and emotions they feel would be different as well. The important thing is every child to understand both their own and someone else’s feelings and respond them appropriately. Emotional development also depends on social norms, behaviour of family members and social […]

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Establishing Rules for Children

Rules are necessary for children’s healthy development. Rules help them gain responsibility and keep them safe. Since it is a very significant subject, parents need to pay attention to it. Key factors that you need to pay attention about setting rules; First of all, it is important to explain why this rule is necessary. For example; if you forbid a video-game, you can explain it as “I don’t believe this video-game is suitable for children at your age, therefore I don’t want you to play it.” You should consider age of your child. Children at 3 years old can’t remember […]

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