Friday, May 17, 2013

My Personal Research Journey

The topic I chose last week were Death understanding and fear of death in young children, Retrieved from the Walden Library using Sage Premier 2010 database. This website gives a great deal of information on how young children feel about death situations. Young children do not know the natural concept of death but, they associate death with illness or getting old and dying. Through this website, parents and educators both will have the opportunity to learn different ways in helping young children cope with death.

As young children get older their cognitive, social, emotion and developmental growth can be affected by the anxiety of death and dying. We want our children to have the best learning experiences as possible and helping them to cope with fearful situations will decrease stress. Professionals in the early childhood field should always show passion and understanding to young children feelings at all time. I encourage my colleagues to read the information on this website to better understand how young children cope with death.

Good Luck Classmates!!

3 comments:

  1. Ida,I want to know more about your topic,it will be interesting for us, in how to help to the young children answering questions about Dead. Good luck! and I'll be aware of your topic.
    Maria

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  2. Ida, you picked not just a senstive topic but on that many people need to know about when talking to children about death. Not eveyone has the compassion to to be ema=pathic to others when daeling with the passing of a loved one.

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  3. Hello Ida, it is nice to have you as a colleague in another course. The topic of death and dying is a really hard topic. We should know how to deal with children that have experienced a loss of any kind. I am looking forward to reading your information on the topic.

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