Social-Emotional Development and Wellbeing
Introduction
Parents find it as an easy task in the identification of a child’s physical needs which include food, clothes, and shelter. Nevertheless, the child’s emotional and mental needs are not evident. Appropriate mental health gives the children room to have clear thinking, develop social skills. From the case scenario, some of the child’s needs outlined include emotional support, education, love, and security. Dylan requires the mentioned needs for him to thrive in the new environment.
Dylan, a three-year-old, immigrated from Korea recently to Canada where most people are speaking English. There is a huge language barrier between Dylan and the other kids at Cindy’s Care. He is angry, frustrated, isolated, and lonely because he doesn’t understand other kids or Cindy nether can Cindy and the other kids understand him. To deal with the language barrier, Dylan’s parents should make sure that he starts going to school for education (Arya, 2019). He should learn more about the English language for him to interact with the other kids and with Cindy too. The childcare facilities should have programs that can take care of children who are in such a situation. Dylan and his parents should use the time to spend together to give him some free lessons which will greatly help.
Dylan feels angered, frustrated, isolated, and angry because he can’t communicate and interact with Cindy and the other children. Showing love will help him overcome this and make him feel important in society (James, 2018). Dylan’s mother and father should be showing and saying love to Dylan for him to have a positive view or perspective about life. Since Dylan is the only child in Cindy’s care who does not understand English, Cindy should show much care and love to him to avoid him feeling left out in the mix ((James, 2018). Even though there is a barrier between the children, Cindy should develop some programs that will enable them to interact and have fun without realizing the differences.
Dylan’s parents and Cindy should provide emotional support (McCarthy et al., 2019) to Dylan. The use of actions and words that are encouraging his self-confidence to enable him to socialize with other children. Dylan plays by himself with his toys at home and sits at a distance observing his peers. This shows that he is lonely and does not have the skills to socialize with his peers. Furthermore. Dylan requires food security (Rose-Jacobs et al, 2016). Dylan experiences difficulties in transitioning from his previous culture in Korea to the new culture in Canada during mealtime. Dylan is unable to eat Kraft dinner that is readable available, instead, he walks away crying to the basement to play with Korean toys. For easy transition, the parents and Cindy should provide him food that he likes as he adapts to the new situation.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the most critical factor that all children want is time. Parents fail to have magnificent parenting rights and benefits when they don’t take enough time to spend with there children. When there is less time spent between children and parents, the children also fail to have some of the needs they require. The time that parents spend with their children gives them the chance to the provision of all the essential needs to the kinds and much more.
Reference
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McCarthy, A., Cyr, M., Fernet, M., & Hébert, M. (2019). Maternal emotional support following the disclosure of child sexual abuse: A qualitative study. Journal of child sexual abuse, 28(3), 259-279.
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