What this poor child was saying in pictures was that she hated herself. In her own eyes she was repulsive, a nothing.
But as the therapist made progress and the child grew more cheerful and took more interest in the world, those self-portraits changed dramatically.
The child began to use bright crayons. She began to put features on the face, though for a while she kept making the mouth area black; this was during a phase in which she was saying unpleasant things.
Eventually she got over that, and, lo and behold, the next self-portraits showed her mouth--smiling.
And even the surrounding area of the pictures changed. In the early pictures the figure had been surrounded by nothing or by dark shadings.
As she opened out to an awareness of the world, she …show more content…
I've said here before that the child is one manifestation of the parents' nonverbal communication.
In other words, the appearance and behavior of a child say to the world, "Look at me, and you'll know something about my parents."
Teachers can learn how to spot the children who were sent out of their homes with the imprint of their parents' personalities on them.
They try not to make snap judgments about parents on the basis of their youngsters, but they usually discovered, when they met the parents, that their assumptions were generally correct.
A child might be from a poor family, but if that child's hand-me-downs were clean and well-mended and the youngster was clean and cheerful and polite, the parents usually proved to be loving, positive, and supportive people.
On the other hand, children could come to school in chauffeured cars, wearing expensive sweaters, and coordinated outfits, but be slovenly, surly, cringing and constantly in need of special situation. When they may meet their expensively dressed parents, teachers would usually see evidence, in their body language, of intrafamily strain, resentment, or indifference to their
But as the therapist made progress and the child grew more cheerful and took more interest in the world, those self-portraits changed dramatically.
The child began to use bright crayons. She began to put features on the face, though for a while she kept making the mouth area black; this was during a phase in which she was saying unpleasant things.
Eventually she got over that, and, lo and behold, the next self-portraits showed her mouth--smiling.
And even the surrounding area of the pictures changed. In the early pictures the figure had been surrounded by nothing or by dark shadings.
As she opened out to an awareness of the world, she …show more content…
I've said here before that the child is one manifestation of the parents' nonverbal communication.
In other words, the appearance and behavior of a child say to the world, "Look at me, and you'll know something about my parents."
Teachers can learn how to spot the children who were sent out of their homes with the imprint of their parents' personalities on them.
They try not to make snap judgments about parents on the basis of their youngsters, but they usually discovered, when they met the parents, that their assumptions were generally correct.
A child might be from a poor family, but if that child's hand-me-downs were clean and well-mended and the youngster was clean and cheerful and polite, the parents usually proved to be loving, positive, and supportive people.
On the other hand, children could come to school in chauffeured cars, wearing expensive sweaters, and coordinated outfits, but be slovenly, surly, cringing and constantly in need of special situation. When they may meet their expensively dressed parents, teachers would usually see evidence, in their body language, of intrafamily strain, resentment, or indifference to their