Parental Level of Epidemic Psychology
- Parents, as guardians of children, can be the most important supporters of children's psychological protection.
First of all, parents should try to maintain emotional stability. We often say, "A parent's stable emotions are the best gift a child can get." Emotionally stable parents will exert a great influence on their children both internally and externally, making them feel safe. Parents should adjust their emotions, calm down the confusion and helplessness caused by the epidemic, learn to withdraw from negative emotions, and maintain a stable emotional response.
Second, to keep the family's work and rest stable. Let the children continue to live in a regular work and rest environment, regularly arrange three meals a day in terms of diet, and regularly remind children to rest on time in terms of sleep.
Maintaining the stability of family life is an important part of a child's psychological stability. It allows parents and children to have a sense of control over their own lives. This sense of control can add a sense of solidity to the child's psychology.
- Children's self-protection at home may produce some emotions such as anxiety, boredom, and depression.
The distance education that the school is about to carry out or has already carried out may also cause some academic pressure on children, and conflicts between parents and children may also arise when parents stay together every day. These psychological problems of children need to be tolerated by parents. We hope that parents can give their children some psychological support on the basis of listening and understanding to help them get through this special stage.
- Accompany and communicate more.
At home, you have to learn to get along with your parents. Companionship is not enough. You should also be your child's soul mate. At home, you can do more constructive behaviors with your children that can improve the parent-child relationship: read a book together, write an epidemic prevention diary together, watch high-quality parent-child movies together, organize family photos, and calm down for a deep dive Let the family sit together for a life narrative, and discuss with the child their future study and work plans or career plans; wait a minute. Even in the face of the requirement of "suspending classes for learning", parents cannot just urge their children not to lag behind in their learning progress, but should focus on improving their children's self-management ability during this special period.
- Reasonable transmission of information.
For younger children, parents can share protective measures about the epidemic through games and demonstrations, such as taking the lead in washing hands and demonstrating wearing masks. When answering children's questions about the "epidemic", use less abstract nouns and more concrete metaphors. You can also help children better understand current events through illustrations and drawings. For older children, guide them to obtain information from formal channels, avoid the intrusion of rumors and gossip, do not blindly follow the trend, and reduce the adverse effects of information overload. Guide children to pay more attention to optimistic and positive information and transmit positive energy.
- Parents should seize the opportunity of family education under the epidemic situation and give their children long-term psychological resources.
Whether parents can take advantage of the situation to carry out education on good hygiene habits, life habit education, life education, ecological environment education, integrity education, information discrimination ability education, teamwork education, self-management ability education, gratitude education, career education and even the common future community of mankind educate? You must know that these educations were often neglected or weak in the past family education, and they are precisely the indispensable content of family education in the new era.
- Be alert to the abnormal situation of the child.
Parents should pay attention to their children's abnormal reactions and encourage their children to seek professional psychological help if necessary.