Abstract
Emotions in childhood fall into two separate categories. These categories are learned and innate emotions. Learned emotions are those that are acquired through personal experience, or from continuous exposure to specific emotions. Innate emotions are emotions that are genetically inherited from the parents. Even though emotions are facilitated through reproduction and through exposure, there are also parental influences that can alter current emotions of a child. This characteristic occurs in all families regardless if it is a wanted change or not. Children are highly receptive to their surroundings and learn to adapt to them at an alarming rate. Along with learning new emotions or expressing the emotions they were born with, …show more content…
The improper acquisitions of specific emotions will not only have an effect on the child’s emotions and the ability to deal with emotions, but can also affect things such as schoolwork and grades. The child, being unable to deal with emotions properly, could be at school where a teacher, or another student for that matter, says something to the child that he/she may not like. This child, not being able to regulate emotions properly, may snap and respond to the words with a severe negative comment, or a severe emotion that was completely unrelated to the situation at hand. If the response was not a severe reaction, then the child may experience an emotion that may be completely unrelated to the event taking place. “In a study that targeted parents whose children were about to enter school, they found that improving either parenting practices or the marital relationship had a significant effect one, two and then four years later on children 's behavior and success in school. The marital intervention had a bigger effect on lowering children 's aggression and academic performance while the parenting intervention had a greater influence on reducing shy and withdrawn behavior” (Azar, 2000). This reinforces my statement that children pick up what their parents teach, whether the teaching is unwanted or not, by stating that having an intervention amongst the parents will yield a better outcome for their children because the parents will have a better understanding of how to, and how not to, act around their
Emotions in childhood fall into two separate categories. These categories are learned and innate emotions. Learned emotions are those that are acquired through personal experience, or from continuous exposure to specific emotions. Innate emotions are emotions that are genetically inherited from the parents. Even though emotions are facilitated through reproduction and through exposure, there are also parental influences that can alter current emotions of a child. This characteristic occurs in all families regardless if it is a wanted change or not. Children are highly receptive to their surroundings and learn to adapt to them at an alarming rate. Along with learning new emotions or expressing the emotions they were born with, …show more content…
The improper acquisitions of specific emotions will not only have an effect on the child’s emotions and the ability to deal with emotions, but can also affect things such as schoolwork and grades. The child, being unable to deal with emotions properly, could be at school where a teacher, or another student for that matter, says something to the child that he/she may not like. This child, not being able to regulate emotions properly, may snap and respond to the words with a severe negative comment, or a severe emotion that was completely unrelated to the situation at hand. If the response was not a severe reaction, then the child may experience an emotion that may be completely unrelated to the event taking place. “In a study that targeted parents whose children were about to enter school, they found that improving either parenting practices or the marital relationship had a significant effect one, two and then four years later on children 's behavior and success in school. The marital intervention had a bigger effect on lowering children 's aggression and academic performance while the parenting intervention had a greater influence on reducing shy and withdrawn behavior” (Azar, 2000). This reinforces my statement that children pick up what their parents teach, whether the teaching is unwanted or not, by stating that having an intervention amongst the parents will yield a better outcome for their children because the parents will have a better understanding of how to, and how not to, act around their