Even before the pandemic struck, there are a lot of challenges that parents need to overcome. However, because of the coronavirus pandemic, parenting had to move up to another level of difficulty.
Not only did the pandemic do this to families, but also all the other events that took place in the previous year brought a lot of difficulties to families.
The Psychological Lockdown
According to a therapist and educator, Nancy J. Kislin, LCSW, MFT, parents are not just in a quarantine lockdown. They are also in a state of emotional and psychological lockdown.
Because of everything that has been happening, parents are suddenly afraid of moving too fast or too dramatic. Kislin says that parents have become more cautious and are afraid to take even the simplest emotional risks. That is because they are worried that whatever risk they take, it might do them more harm instead of good.
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Experts reveal that overindulgence can lead to learned helplessness.
Dr. David J Bredehoft shared in an article in Psychology Today how overindulgence can cause children to be helpless.
Unconsciously, parents teach their children helplessness when they practice overindulgence or doing everything for their children.
It is either because they do not want to make their children feel disappointed or because they no longer want to go through the hassle of teaching their children.
Whatever the reason may be, experts say that overindulgence can lead to learned helplessness.
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What is learned helplessness?
In the 1960s the principle of learned helplessness was introduced by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier. This principle was first observed in research among dogs.
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Executive function are skills that help people to focus, plan, prioritize, work toward goals, adapt to new and unexpected conditions, as well as engage in abstract thinking and planning.
Aside from these, executive functions also oversee and arrange a lot of tasks. But how to develop executive function, especially in children?
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Contrary to what people think, executive function does not refer to a single skill and does not grow in a linear way. By default in childhood, that is challenging.
The reason behind this is the fact that although executive function skills begin to evolve in the first year of life, they are not fully grown until early adulthood.
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According to a study, older sisters benefit siblings greatly. However, older brothers do not so much.
A new study suggests that big sisters can make a huge difference and can affect their younger siblings.
The study
Pamela Jakiela, one of the authors of the study said that they were prompted to do the study after reading that many parents in Kenya give their daughters a huge amount of duty when they are still very young.
She also added that by age 6 to 8, older sisters are spending much of their free time looking after younger children. In which, that is much less common for older brothers.