5 ways to improve the mental health of left-behind children

There are more and more left-behind children, and the children's mental health has problems due to the influence of various negative factors. If we want to change this, we must cultivate them with love, feel with the heart, respect with courtesy, realize with emotion, treat each other equally, and wake up with things.

1. Cultivate with love and feel with heart

Suhomlinski once said: "What does a good teacher mean? First of all, it means that he loves children, feels pleasure in interacting with children, believes that every child can become a good person, is good at making friends with them, cares about children's happiness and sadness, understands children's hearts, and never forgets that he was once a child." Educating and implementing mental health education requires "educating people with love." A loving smile, a loving word, can arouse the potential energy of students. Love can turn heavy rain into bright sunshine.

2. Respect with courtesy, awaken with emotion

Children left behind in rural areas have an inalienable basic right as human beings - respect. Psychologist Emerson believes: "The secret of educational success lies in respecting students." To build a good mental health platform for left-behind children in rural primary schools, teachers are required to respect students' dominant position. Every left-behind child has specific rights and dignity, as well as his or her own thoughts and emotions. Therefore, education should recognize the value of students as human beings and respect their personality. Of course, this respect is reflected not only in the acceptance of the unique individual behaviors of left-behind children and the satisfaction of their needs, but also in the creation of a good environment and conditions that allow them to freely and fully discover themselves, realize their own value, and experience their own dignity and happiness as human beings. Only in this way can the construction of a mental health platform for left-behind children not be an empty talk.

3. Treat each other equally and learn from experience

Suhomlinski said, "The whole trick of educational skills lies in grasping children's ambition, this kind of moral self-encouragement. If the child himself does not strive for progress and does not know how to encourage himself, no educator can cultivate good qualities in him. However, only in those places where the collective and teachers first see the children's strengths, will children develop a desire to improve themselves." An excellent teacher should establish an equal teacher-student relationship with students, so that students are happy to approach you, so that they can have enough self-confidence and ambition. Education must constantly adjust and change its old concepts and behaviors, step out of the shadow of "teacher's dignity", step down from the "altar" of self-importance, value left-behind children as equal "people", live in harmony with them, and treat them with sincerity. At the same time, education should recognize that individual differences exist objectively, and should care for and love every student, especially left-behind children, without favoring one over another. Only when teachers and students are equal, and all students are equal, can left-behind children truly generate a strong motivation to share hardships with their classmates and class.

4. Trust, encourage and raise awareness

When providing psychological counseling to left-behind children, we must also trust and respect them. Suhomlinsky said: "Enthusiasm for people, trust in people, figuratively speaking, is the air on which the wings of caress and tenderness rely to fly." We should fully trust them, and education can "entrust them with important tasks" and create conditions for them to give full play to their talents, such as entrusting them to participate in school, class affairs, and subject management. We should teach students in accordance with their aptitude, develop their strengths, build their confidence, and organize transformation. When they fail, encourage them with a tone of conviction; when they succeed, congratulate them with a sincere attitude. Let them transform themselves, improve themselves and perfect themselves. Use your words and actions to make students feel that you are an approachable friend. This will give them a sense of psychological security, allowing them to not be afraid of making mistakes or taking detours at all times and in all places, and to catch up. This will not only help them regain their self-esteem and build self-confidence, but also help them shift their attention more to class work and study, eliminate the influence of negative factors, and promote their healthy physical and mental growth.

5. Affirm achievements and gain enlightenment

For left-behind children, it is best for us to find their "bright spots" and give them timely affirmation so as to build their self-confidence. In fact, most left-behind children have strengths and characteristics, and have their own interests. Teachers should organize more literary, sports, scientific and technological activities suitable for them. During this process, every little progress they make should be promptly affirmed, encouraged and praised; let them give full play to their strengths, realize their self-worth, fully experience the joy of success, and invisibly enhance their self-confidence. A psychologist once said: "The deepest need in human nature is the desire for appreciation from others." Isn't this also true for left-behind children? They hope to be understood, affirmed and appreciated by their parents, teachers and classmates, and especially need their needs to be met and motivated to succeed.