The Benefits of Teaching Violence Prevention Strategies in Early Childhood Education
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- Give children consistent love and attention – every child needs a strong, loving relationship with a caring adult to feel safe and secure, and develop a sense of trust.
- Ensure that children are supervised and guided – they learn important social skills by interacting with others in well supervised activities. Unsupervised children often have behavioral problems that can lead to violence.
- Model appropriate behaviors – children learn by example. Discuss problems with them, and help them learn nonviolent solutions to conflict and problems.
- Be consistent with rules and discipline – children need structure for their behavior, including clearly stated, logical consequences for not following the rules.
- Make sure children do not have access to firearms – never store firearms (even if unloaded) in places where children have access to them. Teach children about the dangers of firearms and steps to take if they find a gun.
- Try to keep children from seeing too much violence in the media – limit television viewing time, and talk with children about the violence they see in movies, on TV, and in video games. Help them understand how painful violence is in real life and discuss its serious consequences.
- Teach children ways to avoid being victims of violent acts – stress personal safety, including what to do if anyone tries to hurt them and how to call 911.
- Take care of yourself and be connected with your community – stay involved with family, friends, and neighbors. Take pride in your community, and be proactive in helping to keep it safe.
- Offer parenting classes that deal with effective parenting and child development.
- Conduct training for parents, expectant parents, and those who work directly with young children. Life skills that can be addressed include specific violence prevention skills (e.g. empathy, gentle touch, anger management, impulse control, and learning how to set and enforce limits); stress management and positive coping techniques; problem solving; and communication.
- Provide educational opportunities showing parents and caregivers how to recognize their emotional “triggers” (when they feel they are about to lose control), and teach them anger management and coping techniques for self-control.
- Teach children at an early age that feelings are normal – even feelings of anger or hurt; however, violence is not an acceptable method for expressing anger, frustration, and other negative feelings.
- Be a vigilant, positive role model.
- Fast and Pray.
- Teach parents that children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Teach children that they are fearfully and wonderfully made by God.
- Train them up in the way they should go, so when they are old they will not depart from it.
Submitted: May 28, 2010
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