Impacts on Early Emotional Development

Impacts on Early Emotional Development

The region that I chose was the Middle East and North Africa.   I selected this region because I have friends who visited here some years ago and were very saddened by the many challenges that the children faced regarding, school, home life, housing and parenting.  I wanted to look at the Middle East and North Africa today in order to see if there have been any significant changes within the past few years regarding challenges faced by children. 

 

After my readings I found that the children still faced many challenges.  Many of the children remain at home due to fear and paucity of schools near them.  Many young children in the rural areas of the Middle East and North Africa were not guaranteed an education, specifically young children between the ages of 6 and 14.  Efforts were made to build new schools but it never happened and the old schools were never repaired.  Those children who did get a chance to school had to meet outside.  These experiences could have detrimental effects on a child’s emotional well-being and development.  These children could lag far behind students who do attend school, it could cause low self-esteem, they would lack the skills needed to survive in society and these experiences could also cause them to become suicidal. 

 

Personally I wish that there was something that I could do for these young children in order to help them develop, learn, and grow adequately.   Professionally I wish that there were more experienced teachers who were able to help these children or find ways to teach them.  I wish that there were more role models mentors in this region that could help show children how important and loved they are.