how would u help the children in your classroom to understand and support...PLEAS... SEE DETAILS?
child development
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You can't MAKE a child understand what another child is going through! What you do is the ones that WANT to support the child with the problem and that have been through it, allow them to help! You can't help or MAKE them understand anything. Children don't UNDERSTAND death until they experiance it and they can't UNDERSTAND divorce until they exerience it!
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Try making things fun. And give away prizes if the kids get the answer right.
i'm a preschool teacher. i haven't dealt with any of those issues that you mentioned but i think if it were to happen in my classroom i'd have a chat with the parent(s) and see if there is anything they want me to do as a teacher. perhaps to spend a little more time with the child or to just spend more group time together so that he/she has a sense of security in the classroom environment. depending on how old the chlidren are you can always start on talking about how sometimes animals die and that the same thing happens to people. and with the divorce issues, you can talk about how some parents don't get along and it's not because of the children, it's just that mom and dad can't resolve some issues. hopefully everything works out for you. Good Luck!
Remember the only thing that has remained UNCHANGED in this child's life is the classroom environment you are providing. I am not saying that you should ignore the emotional traumatic experiences this child faces but keep in mind you may provide the safe haven of escape for this child. As far as making other children understand, I don't think it is possible unless they are school age and can grasp empathy. The child will feel your love and caring nature and feel comforted more than likely.
There are alot of different children's books available now that deal with that issue. Check in your public library or even your school library.
You don't. I get irritated when teachers talk to the whole class about something going on with one child. I don't want anyone but us talking to my kids about issues that are best dealt with by my husband and I.
So a teacher says, "Class, sometimes parents stop loving one another and they get divorced."
Now you have put something in my child's mind that was never there before.
I have a highly gifted child and issues like that don't stop at a small conversation. They become obsessions that we have to deal with for weeks.
A teacher told my child that after people die, we bury them in the ground (he was four at the time).
He had recently lost his grandfather and was horrified by this news. We hadn't told him about the burial because as his parents we knew he wasn't capable yet of dealing with that info.
It is a year later and we still occasionaly hear that he thinks we should dig up his grandfather to make sure he is really dead and not upset that we buried him. Not cool!
Please know that it is not okay to discuss anything with children other than your own.
they withdrawn and need that time so allow it... they also become angry and this can manifest itself with hitting and pushing a gentle reminder that it isn't nice it all that's called for ... allowing them to work through their emotions is the best way to handle it ....they are more resilient then most adults
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