Successes and failures of parents of two-year-old children in satisfying their choice and how to avoid, prevent, restrain their whims, capriciousness, stubbornness

Abstract

The article highlights the results of a study of the children’s of the second year of life choice and its impact on the emergence of whims, capriciousness, stubbornness in children. The collected, analyzed and interpreted theoretical studies and practical facts of the manifestations of whims, capriciousness, stubbornness that arise during the choice of children testify to the importance and necessity of studying this problem. The concept of the study is built on the principles of a personally oriented approach to interaction with children. It has been established that the age capabilities of children in the second year of life provide grounds for studying the choice of toddlers in direct connection with the manifestations that we call whims, capriciousness, stubbornness. It has been found that capriciousness becomes more frequent when the children’s choice is not satisfied by parents or other adults, and toddlers feel the need for communication, a favorite toy or food, from overwork or a painful condition. It has been noted that the humanistic approach of parents to children’s upbringing helps to reduce the level of capriciousness. The attention and love of parents, their communication with the kids becomes the basis for the comfortable activity of children. The authoritarian style of communication with the children does not allow to realize the child’s desire for independent choice. Most often, adults pay attention to the whims and caprices of the kids, and their choice remains unnoticed.