What is the mental health of children?

Psychologists generally believe that childhood is the golden age for cultivating a healthy psychology. Various habits and behavioral patterns are laid in this period. If the child's mental health is ignored at this time, it will have an adverse effect on the child's future development. Every parent should pay attention to their children's mental health. What does a mentally healthy baby look like? This article lists 10 characteristics for mothers' reference. Giving children a healthy mentality can help them become excellent people.

1. Don’t care too much about your children. Doing so can easily make children overly self-centered, believing that everyone should respect them, and eventually become arrogant.

2. Don’t bribe your children. Children should be made aware of the relationship between rights and obligations from an early age. They cannot enjoy rights without fulfilling their obligations.

3. Don’t be too close to your children. Children should be encouraged to live, study and play with their peers so that they can learn how to get along with others.

4. Don’t force your children to do things that they are not capable of. Children's self-confidence mostly comes from successful achievements. Forcing them to do things beyond their ability will only undermine their self-confidence.

5. Don’t be too strict, demanding, or even beat or scold your children. This will cause children to develop unhealthy psychological states such as inferiority, timidity, and avoidance, or lead to abnormal behaviors such as rebellion, cruelty, lying, and running away from home.

6. Don’t deceive or threaten your children unnecessarily. Scaring children will cause parents to lose their authority in their children's minds.

7. Do not criticize or laugh at your child in front of his or her friends. This will cause the child to feel resentful and shy, and damage his or her self-esteem.

8. Don’t praise your children too much. When a child achieves something, just give him a little praise. Excessive praise will make the child develop an unhealthy mentality of seeking fame and reputation.

9. Don’t be moody with your children. This will make children sensitive, suspicious, emotionally unstable, timid and cowardly.

10. Help your child analyze the environment he is in. Help children solve problems instead of solving them for them. Children should be taught how to analyze and solve problems.

In recent years, many educators at home and abroad have conducted joint research with mental health experts on the mental health of young children. They have put forward preliminary views on this and believe that generally mentally healthy children have the following characteristics: normal intellectual development, a love of learning and asking questions, rich emotions, and cheerful moods; lively behavior and a certain degree of self-control; sociable and able to adapt to collective life and get along well with their peers.