Protect your Child’s Emotional Well-Being

In our effort to balance extremely full and hectic lives with our families and our jobs, we may perhaps have been neglecting an all-important facet of our child’s life:  their emotional well-being.  The first three years of a child’s life is a vital time.  The drama involved in the changing of child care providers or having a ‘part-time’ parent float in and out of their lives can be really traumatic and destabilizing for them.  It’s imperative that mother and father, educators, involved adults and care providers make a concerted joint effort to ensure that a child’s emotional needs are met on a daily basis, just as their physical needs are.  The effects of not meeting a child’s emotional needs, specifically during the first three years, can have devastating consequences. Violent, disruptive or defiant behaviors often result from emotional neglect.

The very first 3 years of everyday living are crucial in a number of ways. This is when bonding and emotional separation takes place.  If there are interruptions in either of these processes, misbehaviors from the child can result. This can later have an effect on their relationships later in life and hinder them in developing their own healthy relationships as adolescents or adults.  Teenagers and adults who seem to be “socially awkward” are often that way due to emotional neglect sustained as a child.

Through the first three a long time of life, the brain goes through its most rapid development.  By the time they’re 3 years-old, the brain is already ‘hardwired’ from the experiences they’ve had to that point.  It is imperative that these be loving, supportive, safe, good experiences so the brain will be conditioned to expect positive things.  If they’ve been frightening, hurtful, abusive, or dangerous, then the brain is conditioned to anticipate negative occurrences.  These neurological tendencies often are sustained throughout a lifetime.  A child who has suffered emotional abuse or neglect will struggle with these tendencies that are manifested in social behavior or thought processes for the rest of their lives.

For that reason it’s essential that parents, caregivers and other involved adults make a concerted effort to make sure the child’s emotional needs are met in a good, constructive and wholesome manner.  Parents ought to ensure that the childcare providers are stable and consistent, and don’t move them around to several childcare providers during this critical phase. It is important to ensure that your child feels safe  and secure with structured and consistent schedules and routines.  Be sure to spend as much high quality time with your child as possible at this time, regardless of your otherwise busy and hectic lifestyle.  Your child can sense that such a schedule is stressful to you and it can become a frightening or confusing element for them.  Thus it is crucial to take time out to reassure them that you’re in no way too busy for them.

Remember that your child’s mental well-being is just as essential as their physical, so do your part to ensure your son or daughter knows he or she is growing up safe, secure, treasured and loved.

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