In preschool age, a child learns the language of feelings - the forms of expression of the subtlest shades of experiences adopted in society with the help of looks, smiles, gestures, poses, movements, intonations of voice, etc. On the other hand, the child possesses the ability to restrain violent and harsh expressions of feelings. A five-year-old child may no longer show fear or tears. He learns not only to largely control the expression of his feelings, put them in a culturally accepted form, but also to use them consciously, informing others about their experiences, influencing them.
However, preschoolers are still immediate and impulsive. The emotions they experience are easily read on the face, in posture, gesture, in all behavior. For a practical psychologist, the behavior of a preschooler, the expression of feelings by him is an important indicator in understanding the inner world of a child, testifying to his psychological state, personal well-being, and possible prospects for development. Information about the degree of emotional well-being of the child gives the psychologist an emotional background. The emotional background can be positive or negative. Negative emotional background is characterized by depression, poor mood, confusion of the child.
One of the reasons for this emotional state of the child may be the manifestation of an increased level of anxiety. Anxiety as a certain emotional attitude with a predominant sense of anxiety and fear of doing something wrong or wrong, does not meet the generally accepted requirements and norms develops closer to 7 years old with many insoluble and coming from an earlier age of fears.
Yours, Vadim Kobylchenko
Ukraine