Pre schooler growth and development concept map
Concerns related to Growth and Development
Promoting Safety
Preschoolers broaden their
horizon, they enjoy using their
curiosity to explore their feelings
and their world that may lead to
accidents.
Educate and teach the Child:
Caution child never to talk with or
accept a ride from a stranger
Teach a child how to call for help
in an emergency (Describe and
explain about police officer)
Explain that bullying from other
child is not to be tolerated
Remind the parents to:
Buckle the child into backseat
making sure that the harness
does not cross the face or throat
of the child.
Use safety helmet and
Caution childsafe
never to talk with or
encouraged riding habits
accept a ride from a stranger
Teach a child how toApproach
call for helpthe fear in steps
Explain,
in an emergency (Describe and expose,
explore
explain about police officer)
Use love objects
Explain that bullyingProblem-solve
from other
Practice
child is not to be tolerated through
play
Parental concerns
associated with the
preschool period
Common Health Problems
Ear infection
Respiratory infection
Tell the parent to avoid the
child to expose in smoke or
cigarette smoke
Common fears of the
preschoolers
 Fear of Dark
 Fear of mutilation- intense
reaction of a preschooler to
even a simple injury
 Fear of separation or
abandonment
 Monitor the stimuli their
children are exposed to,
especially around bedtime.
 Use dim night light.
Provide a child a good
explanation as well
and
distraction to feel safe
together
pretend
Promoting the
development in daily
activities
Dressing
Childs prefer appealing colors or prints
rather than matching.
↓  Prolong your patience
Let the child choose their own clothes,
fold together matching shirts and slacks
so a child sees them as a set rather than
individual pieces
SLEEP
may refuse to go to sleep because of
fear of the dark and may wake at night
terrified by a bad dream
EXERCISE
Promote active games to develop motor
skills and prevent obesity
HYGIENE
Turn down the temperature of water to
prevent scalds
Clean their fingernails and ears
Use non-irritating shampoo
CARE OF TEETH
 Teach the child how to properly brush
their teeth
 Encourage children to fruits rather
than candy
 First dentist visit should be arranged
no later than 2 years of age for an
evaluation of tooth formation
Promoting healthy
family functioning
 Encourage vocabulary building.
 Answers questions so the child
sees language as an organized
system of communication
DISCIPLINE
Guide the child’s without discouraging
the child’s right to have an opinion.
Use "time out" to correct child’s
behavior
STRESS
Acknowledge child’s feelings so they
understand what they are feeling.
Promote a positive environment by
praising children for the acceptable
things that they do.
Help children through stories.
Make an effort to cut down on activities
when you see signs of stress
Teach children tricks for calming
themselves.
Plan plenty of time for play to allow
them to express their feelings
Books, art activities, puppetry, play and
drawing allow children to think through
and label their feelings.
Give children a lot of cuddles,
reassurances, and familiar routines

Behavior variations
Imaginative + immature
reasoning = Behavior
variations
Telling tall tales
help the child separate fact
from fiction
Imaginary friends
This can encourage
language development, may
provide an outlet for a child to
express innermost feelings,
or serve as a handy
scapegoat for behavior about
which a child has some
conflict.
Difficulty sharing
 Practice to understand and
learn the concept of sharing
 Explain the child the
concept of mine, yours and
ours
Regression
Some preschoolers,
generally in relation to
stress, revert to behavior
they previously outgrew,
such as thumb-sucking,
negativism, loss of bladder
control, and inability to
separate from their parents.
↓
Use positive reinforcement
Pre schooler growth and development concept map
Concerns related to Growth and Development cont.
Sex education
Preschoolers questions
about genital organs are
simple and fact-finding
↓ but they not necessarily
Give a simple explanation
Masturbation
↓ happened at school, what
turn the child attention to
other things
Teach the child not to allow
anyone to touch their body
unless their parents agree
Sibling Rivalry
 Promote the child’s self
esteem
 Supply them with a
private drawer or box for
their things
Choosing a Preschool or Broken fluency “Bathroom Language”
Child Care Center Referred to secondary
stuttering because the child
Preschoolers imitates
begins to speak without this
and incorporates the
In choosing Preschool problem and then, during
vocabularies they heard
Center ensure child’s the preschool years,
safety and good develops it.
understand what the
experience
word they are using
↓
means.
Always ask children what Do not discuss in the child’s
presence that he or she is
they learned, and the
having difficulty with speech
names of any new friends. Correction should be
because this can make the
unemotional because the
child conscious of speech
child may continue to
patterns and compound the
use it to seek for
problem
Preparing a child for attention
Listen with patience rather
School
than interrupt or ask the child
Immunizations should be
to speak more slowly or to
up-to-date
start over
Parent’s attitude
Always talk to the child in a
Emphasize the safety
calm, simple way to role
along the road going to
model slow speech
school
Protect space for the child to
Prepare a bagged lunch
talk if there are other
at home
children in the family
Teach the child how to tie
Do not force a child to speak
their shoe, name basic
if he or she does not want to
color
Do not reward a child for
fluent speech or punish for
non-fluent speech
Watch TV < Reading
together
Reduce child's stress