Consequences of Stress on Children's Development
Natural disaster whether large or small does have an effect on children development.
Listed below are articles about how natural disaster and impact on children:
https://ag.purdue.edu/extension/eden/FloodsStorms/Children%20Victims.pdf
http://disasterphilanthropy.org/learning-center/issue-insights/natural-disasters-and-their-impact-on-children/
http://www.child-to-child.org/disaster/
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Consequences of Stress on Children's Development
Children are very special. Sometimes adults do not realize how their behavior or choices affect their well being and emotional being. As I look back over my childhood, I can remember my mother and father arguing and fighting. I love my parents. When the arguing and fighting is happening, I would wish I had a new mommy and daddy. My kids wants to see the parent fight or hear them fussing. I would make me feel like it was my fault or why daddy had to go out drinking. When you see it you just want them to stop. So you do what you can to get their attention. I cried, yelled out stop, tried to get in the middle or go get a neighbor or somebody just to make them stop.
Being the older I felt like it was my responsibility to try to control the situation. I had to take my sister to the room, calm her down or take her with me as we leave the house. Or I am thinking what can I do to make my feel better.
In that moment I was sad and mad. Having good neighbors, aunts, and uncles that would talk with us ( my sister and I) to lets us know that everything is going to be OK probably relieve so of the stress. I do think it effect me in so ways. I tend to keep things in that bother me. But as far as my academic work I do not recall it effect it. I think it pushed me more to do good in school so they will not argue.
However it sadden me to say that I followed in their footstep. I said to myself that I would not argue in front of my children. I failed myself. I can not explain why I allowed it to happened. I see my children doing what I did when my parents argue. I see them being insecure. I see then fighting among themselves. I see them intimating us.
Now I pray that when my children get marry that they will not make the same mistake as me. I want my children to be better than me. I want them to learn to walk away before arguing in front of their children.
Children are very special. Sometimes adults do not realize how their behavior or choices affect their well being and emotional being. As I look back over my childhood, I can remember my mother and father arguing and fighting. I love my parents. When the arguing and fighting is happening, I would wish I had a new mommy and daddy. My kids wants to see the parent fight or hear them fussing. I would make me feel like it was my fault or why daddy had to go out drinking. When you see it you just want them to stop. So you do what you can to get their attention. I cried, yelled out stop, tried to get in the middle or go get a neighbor or somebody just to make them stop.
Being the older I felt like it was my responsibility to try to control the situation. I had to take my sister to the room, calm her down or take her with me as we leave the house. Or I am thinking what can I do to make my feel better.
In that moment I was sad and mad. Having good neighbors, aunts, and uncles that would talk with us ( my sister and I) to lets us know that everything is going to be OK probably relieve so of the stress. I do think it effect me in so ways. I tend to keep things in that bother me. But as far as my academic work I do not recall it effect it. I think it pushed me more to do good in school so they will not argue.
However it sadden me to say that I followed in their footstep. I said to myself that I would not argue in front of my children. I failed myself. I can not explain why I allowed it to happened. I see my children doing what I did when my parents argue. I see them being insecure. I see then fighting among themselves. I see them intimating us.
Now I pray that when my children get marry that they will not make the same mistake as me. I want my children to be better than me. I want them to learn to walk away before arguing in front of their children.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Childbirth
As a mother of four, I can tell you that each childbirth is different. The birth of my first child seems so easy. I did not have any complications except for the morning sickness.
Being that this was my first child, I was scared but nervous. Like all new mother I tried to prepared myself for the pain and how to time the labor pain and many other things. Nothing went as I had planned.
The day I delivered my son, I had no idea that I was in labor. I just thougt I was sick. I could not keep any food down. I was concerned so I called my doctor. He told me to come in so he could your examined me and to make sure the baby was doing fine.
When I went to the doctor, he told me that I had dialated 7cm and I needed to go to the hospital. Now I am nervous because my boyfriend (now my husband) was at worked and I could not get a hold of him. I did not have my bag packed because I was expecting the baby to come 2 week later.
I have a vaginal deliver. No problem. When I first looked at my baby after he came out, oh my God, he looked weird. His head had a point and there was all this white stuff on him. I think it took about a minute or two before I heard him cried. I held him after the nurses had clean him up.
However it is a different story with my last child. Induce labor was not for me. I could not take the pain. It just seem like the labor pain was every 5 minutes. It was so painful. Sometimes I wish the doctor would had let her stay in the full term. She was 4 weeks early because they could not hear her heartbeat through the ultrasound. I feel like she is developing slower than her peer.
Being that this was my first child, I was scared but nervous. Like all new mother I tried to prepared myself for the pain and how to time the labor pain and many other things. Nothing went as I had planned.
The day I delivered my son, I had no idea that I was in labor. I just thougt I was sick. I could not keep any food down. I was concerned so I called my doctor. He told me to come in so he could your examined me and to make sure the baby was doing fine.
When I went to the doctor, he told me that I had dialated 7cm and I needed to go to the hospital. Now I am nervous because my boyfriend (now my husband) was at worked and I could not get a hold of him. I did not have my bag packed because I was expecting the baby to come 2 week later.
I have a vaginal deliver. No problem. When I first looked at my baby after he came out, oh my God, he looked weird. His head had a point and there was all this white stuff on him. I think it took about a minute or two before I heard him cried. I held him after the nurses had clean him up.
However it is a different story with my last child. Induce labor was not for me. I could not take the pain. It just seem like the labor pain was every 5 minutes. It was so painful. Sometimes I wish the doctor would had let her stay in the full term. She was 4 weeks early because they could not hear her heartbeat through the ultrasound. I feel like she is developing slower than her peer.
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