From parents it is often possible to hear that their child is afraid of nothing and does not even understand that it is impossible to touch the switched-on iron or a hot pan, to approach an unfamiliar dog or to run out on the road. It seems to adults that the child has no self-preservation instinct. But it not so, just at the kid interest is too strong to learn all new and not enough experience to understand danger.
Why children are afraid of nothing
At the child the instinct of self-preservation does not appear at any age, it is from the birth. In the first months of life it is directed to survival, that is the kid will surely let know shout that he wants to eat, drink, to it uncomfortablly, etc. But as soon as children begin to creep and go, they at once are interested in sockets, wires, windowsills. And in it there is nothing strange – the kid does not understand yet that it is dangerous, and only parents can protect him from terrible objects.
Children of the first year of life badly feel the body, on the basis of tactile feelings and orientation in space they learn the world. Only this way they are capable to get experience. Over time, if parents do not limit the kid in everything, and correctly control, he will begin to feel borders and to understand what is safe and that can do harm to health.
What it is necessary to do to parents
Adults, first of all, should not limit need of the kid for the movement. If to protect it from the world by means of an arena, a carriage (if the child already goes itself) or walkers, it is possible to aggravate situations only. Further children try to reach and touch even more promptly dangerous objects, take them in a mouth, etc. Their main task is to make as soon as possible something forbidden until parents managed to see.
That at the child the self-preservation instinct was correctly developed, parents need to be believed in him. A lot of patience will be required correctly to consider, suffer and to try to take away at once, and to control a situation. It is important not to allow the moment when the child does much harm to himself, but also not to forbid everything blindly.
What instructions the child has to know
The child needs own experience in different cases, but there are dangerous situations with which it is better not to experiment. The task of parents is to explain to the kid how to behave if the unfamiliar adult approached, foreign dog close ran up (and how in general to behave with unfamiliar animals). Also to tell why it is impossible to play about the stove how to handle electric devices. Of course, it is necessary to talk about it many times, but the most important – result and safety of children. It is possible not only to tell situations, but also to lose, the kid will quicker remember and will correctly behave in a dangerous situation.