Impacts on Early Emotional Development

We need to teach children to see the similarities and the good in people. To treat all their experience with others different and separate. Like meeting a friend from Asia different from a another friend from Asia, because they might both come from the same place, but they are two total different people. Even for one family, each child is different than the other even though they have the same mom and dad. We are all unique in our own different way. My passion is to help children and their families see the difference in people, but know through heart we are all the same. To learn to accept one another. 

Thank you to all my fellow colleagues from EDUC 6358 for a very informative and resourceful eight weeks. I have learn more than what I expected to. I wish you all the best of luck and hope to hear from you soon. 

Impacts on Early Emotional Development

 East Asia and Pacific

This region faces income inequality that creates social inequity and widening disparities that affects the population. This inequality creates segregation and equal opportunities for households and young children. 

UNICEF works to manage and implement programs that supports children's rights in 28 countries across the region of East Asia and Pacific. UNICEF is working to help children earn their rights to holistic development. UNICEF is trying to help children achieve their full potential regardless of their abilities, gender or other difference and to receive equal opportunities to education, health care, nutrition, protection and cognitive stimulation. 


Many children who have disabilities are denied the rights to live and reach their full potential in this region as they lack the programs and resources, and or they are denied the access to programs and resources. Children with disabilities are most likely to experience violence or higher risk of emotional abuse. Many children do not receive equal education opportunity due to their gender. Boys are more likely offered higher education opportunities than girls. In this region common gender barriers is that girls are to do domestic work and taking care of siblings, set up for early marriage and sexual abuse, while boys are to face corporal punishment such as spanking, unsupportive classroom environment and irrelevance of curricula for work. 

UNICEF recognizes the crisis that young children face in this region, where they try to help them reach their full potential regardless of what they face and to be given the equal opportunity to be who they are. 

The Sexualization of Early Childhood

I feel like the topic of sexualization should not be shared with young children, as the need to remain innocent and imaginative as they can be without thinking about sexualization. For example children who are exposed to topics of sexualization would make comments about others and will affect how they visualize themselves. A child will comment about a woman's breast due to how she is dressed. Another one is that a child will grow up to dress up in clothing that express their sexualization which attracts and expose them to risk. Child will lose self-respect, respecting their own body and define beauty in a whole different way. The topic of sexualization should be shared to children who are going through puberty instead of early childhood children. 

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Evaluating Impacts on Professional Practice

Living in a World of "-isms"

Though the world has been through so much changes, behaviors and perspectives from many years ago still are practiced to this day. Unfortunately, those people who were discriminated and unaccepted, many years ago, are the same people till present day who are still looked down upon, insulted and mistreated. As depressing as that sound, so many schools and societies are teaching younger children to live in a world with no bias, a world of peace and love. In the field of early childhood education, the professionals try their best to educate the children and their families in living an unbiased life, where they accept and kindly understand different cultures and religions.

Ableism

People are all different in their own uniqueness. One strength I have is the ability to understand and observe my environment to know when to act, and react and to whom. Though my limitation is overthinking situation, which creates so much mixed emotions that can affect my work and ability to perform, in other words, I am too emotional. I at most times take other people’s problem as my own, which can distract me from my daily routines, assignment and work duties. How I understand the world sometimes make people feel comfortable enough to open up to me and ask me for help, which is what I am passionate about doing, helping others. Sometimes I judge others based on their able-bodied, which makes them feel uncomfortable to interact with me, such as how we look at them with an "aww" facial expression, creates an atmosphere of feeling bad about their situation. My emotions always gets the best of me. 

At the end of the day, we are all different, with our own abilities, we are in no position to judge others of their lack of ability. I may feel bad for a person who was forced to amputate both hands, but it did not stop them there, they can do almost everything that people with two hands do. Sometimes people with disabilities do not want to be criticized for the lack of able-bodied, they want to be known for what they can do instead. It is time to ask before assuming. Ask a person if they need help, instead of always assuming that they do.