According to a study prepared by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the United States, Children who spend more time in kindergartens before their fifth birthday are much more likely to suffer from behavioral problems, being more aggressive and disobedient when they are outside the school.
The conclusions have been obtained after monitoring in 1,364 children, from birth until they turned 12. This does not mean that daycare centers are negative for children, the study specifies that these behavioral disturbances have a lot to do with the attention given to children in some of the centers.
Among the suggestions provided by the study, it should be noted that nurseries should be of quality, providing the best care for children, this fact allows, for example, a more early development of language than in a child who goes to a nursery whose Treatment and attention may be poor.
It is very important that those who are responsible for children in kindergartens are committed and honest people, offering a personalized and warm treatment to each child, these are factors that develop various beneficial aspects in the lives of children.
This study is perfectly related to the one published by Child Development, which we talked about in Babies and more in the post, They relate the time we spend with children with their behavior. According to experts, emphasizing the academic areas in kindergartens is also negative, since language or mathematics learning can be excessively accentuated, leaving aside values that foster sociability and interpersonal relationships. But how can we know if the educational program being carried out in the nursery is the most appropriate and provides the desired results?
Above all, teachers or caregivers should not be strictly academic, that is, they not only care about teaching children different subjects, they must be people capable of teaching to work together and harmoniously and even use the first months of stay in the nursery to enhance sociability among children.
Teachers must raise rules and address problems that children must meet or solve, but they must never ignore them, they must be involved in collaborating with them and fostering union and group work. Sometimes the aggression of a child is given because they usually get their way in conflicts, this leads to believe that it is an appropriate way to do what they want, a dispute over a toy, to capture the attention of another child, etc. For this reason it is necessary that the nursery is conditioned to avoid this attitude and what better way than the involvement in the games and activities of the caregiver.
The responsibility of caregivers in the nursery is fundamental, the implication is basic if we do not want children to have an aggressive and moody personality. There are many explanations provided by experts about the aggressiveness and bad behavior of some children in daycare centers, such as the fact that the child is part of a very large group, this is a stressful situation for them.
The conclusion we reached is that the follow-up of the child should not be neglected at any time, parents should supervise the development that is carried out in kindergartens and we should show the best of us when we interact with our children, all this will lead to Sociable child, happy and predisposed to learn.
