If a parent is always stressed and worried there child will sense this and not feel as loved as a parent who is more warm and comforting. This does not mean that a parent doesn’t love their child but the way they are each emotionally will have an effect on their level of attachment. A child’s temperament can be shown at a very young age you will see this in the child’s level of activity, emotionally and socially. If a child is always upset and crying when they are at daycare or with a caregiver this will also affect their level of attachment it will be much harder for that child to be cared for and the love and comfort a child needs will not meet as the child’s temperament is affecting this attempt for attachment. A child’s temperament can affect a child's choice of activities and environments.
The young people may find it hard to socialise outside of their family because of judgements being made about them. This may lead the young person to develop negative feelings about themselves or society for not fitting in. This may affect them getting a job. Being in the care system means that a young person is separated away from the family unit due to a family breakdown and could possibly be split up from siblings. this impacts on the life chances of the young person because they may not be able to fully put their trusts in the adults around them because of all the new changes they have gone through.
The child may feel anxious, nervous, upset or confused but given the right support they be feel content, excited or proud and this can give their self esteem a boost. The child may not have mixed socially outside of the family before starting school and they may feel nervous about having to make new friends which may not be easy for the child and they may become anxious and become shy or dismissive. A child that does not mix with his peers much could develop communication problems. When a child moves from nursery school to primary school hey may
Some families may move house a few times throughout live. This can affect the child as they have to make new friendship and get use to a new area they have moved too. Children and young people can not do anything to their transition and can be daunting like: first day that school, first exam, first sexual experience, most of these are navigated. The experience they gain can help them learn to deal with the challenges of life ahead. The range of transitions faced by children and young people includes: Moving schools or class Puberty Bereavement Parents splitting up Illness (Parents or siblings) Changing friend Groups:
Ass 1 Task 4; Explain how children and young people`s development is influenced by a range of external factors. Some external factors that could influence children are; childcare arrangements, family, poverty previous education and where they live. If a child has been taken into care or has been moved around a lot this child could be unsettled and they might misbehave as they are afraid of rejection. This could also happen if a child`s parents separate the child would feel under pressure to choose a parent or that a parent might leave. Family can have a big effect on a child’s development for example if the child is an only child he / she will not know how to socialise with other children.
3.3 Describe with examples how transitions may affect children and young people behaviour and development…. Transitions may affect the child in many ways for example, A new sibling coming into the family whether being born onto the family adopted or fostered, the child/ children already in the family may feel exited, happy, giddy on the other hand upset jealous may become withdrawn and start attention seeking among other things, this in turn would affect their development in many ways if they are exited their Emotional development will progress due to wanting to help be in there doing lots of things for baby, their intellectual development will progress due to learning new things talking to the baby telling it stories. Their social development can go in two ways, if they became withdrawn they will end up on their own and lonely or with the new baby they will be getting a lot of attention and will end up in the thick of it. Their physical development again can go either way too, they could develop trying impress others and new baby, or they may regress due to not getting enough attention and wanting more whether its good or bad attention. Another example, Puberty, a sudden change to the body hormones raging through the body, changing things dramatically.
Children may react very differently to a transition, depending on how other people react to the transitions and when it happens. For example, going up a year in Year 1 may make the child feel displaced, unfamiliar, insecure and stressed. They will be uncertain of whether or not they will get on with the new teacher, any potentially new classmates and whether or not they like the classroom environment. If they do not adapt or problems arise with this transition than the child may start to not concentrate in class, listen to the teacher, complete the work set, refuse to go to school and, depending on the personality of the child, they may become passive and withdrawn, be bullied and lose friends or start to bully, become rude, interruptive and may refuse to
Emotional abuse is normally to be found in the relationship between a caregiver and a child. Children who being emotionally abused are very vulnerable because they are happy to receive attention from anyone. This means that some paedophiles can target them as they offer the child love and affection. In the longer term , children with such low self- esteem are likely to underachieve at school and may form intense relationships at an early age. Teenage pregnancies are often a result of children feeling unloved.
This causes kids to try to recreate “what was”. (DeBord, 1997, p.6) They will act like their parents never got a divorce, or they will try to get their parents back together. Kids do this because they feel at fault; they may believe something they did or said caused a parent to leave. All of these things happen to children during a divorce, it is a very hard thing for kids to cope with. The emotions in adolescents also suffer from divorce.
Parents divorcing can be very distressing for children and can make them feel angry, sad, powerless and abandoned. Parents arguing a lot at home is also negative for a child and will cause them mental and emotional difficulties and is particularly associated with children having low self-esteem, this being a significant factor in reduced educational detainment and social relationship issues. Having a family member who is misusing alcohol also contributes to children’s mental and emotional health as they have a higher risk of developing mental issues. How intellectual a child is deemed to be also effects emotional and mental health. Society rewards educational achievement so success or failure contributes to how children value or devalue themselves.