What is the relevance of CHILD PSYCHOLOGY in the rearing, teaching and dealing with children?

Question

What is your view/position/stand in CHILD PSYCHOLOGY in dealing with kids?

Answer 1

Theories of child development really help understand how children learn, think and react to their environment. No one theory explains all children, which is why it is so important to learn at least the basic theories of education & development. Psychology also helps in dealing with children who are plagued with learning or developmental challenges because understanding how the mind works also helps you understand when there is a problem.

Answer 2

If you know how the child's mind develops (the process in which they develop and learn), then a you'll be better able to help teach children. You'll be better able to understand how they think.

Ex: a kid keeps getting the problems in math wrong when counting money. The start with quarters and then nickles and then pennies and then dimes. They know the values of coins are 25, 10, 5, 1 but they assign the values to the wrong coins.
q-25
n-10
p-5
d-1
well: young children think bigger is more. if the kid keeps getting it wrong, it could be b/c they haven't learned the size is irrelevant to the value. Knowing that could help the teacher when trying to determine why they're making that specific mistake and how to help fix the mistake.

While that is only one example, I think all teachers should have child psych in their trainings. If they decide to go further and take more, that's fine but not required.

Answer 3

My third child was a newborn when I started taking child development courses and I learned a lot so I think he and my 4th and 5th child got better care as babies. I learned about being respectful to them by telling them everything I was doing with them. (Magda Gerber's theories.) While studying child psychology wasn't a substitute for experience, it did give me valuable ammunition in dealing with my own kids and others.
As a music teacher, child psychology has been helpful because I understand what is appropriate for my students and this gives me an edge over other music teacher who have not studied child development.

Answer 4

I believe it's very important . You can teach the whole child as an individual not just his/her academic needs. It helps you get down to his/her level to understand them more and gives you an idea of the average ability of the average child and helps you to recognise any disabilities a child may have. It's a whole lot more than that, but this is just a brief idea. It's very important indeed!

Answer 5

i could coach the two by way of occasion, and whilst the toddler is the right age s/he could make the alternative on his/her own. i do no longer think of it may confuse the toddler -- do no longer sit down and provide a faith type, yet slowly disclose the toddler to different trip journeys and ideology. youngsters seem to easily p.c.. up on issues -- my own youngsters be taught approximately faith from staring at better than from my instilling something in them, to be straight forward. DH believes in a greater suitable capability yet needs no longer something to do with faith, and that they found out his point of view too