John Bowlby's Analysis

Several theoretical perspectives on emotional well being came to the open so as to further illustrate on how to understand the emotional well being of a child and how to deal the process of developing a quality life on children. John Bowlby deals with the theory of attachment; he believed that babies should have a strong foundation that will be started from the mother in the first year of life. He stated that there will be serious effects if the baby will be separated from the mother at early life. He even wrote a letter during the Second World War relating to the protection of the children who were being evacuated and separated from their parents and will be given to foster parents until the war will be over. A colleague of Bowlby, Mary

The process of developing a secure relationship, bonding, and attachment starts from newborn. During childbirth, the baby is at first placed in the abdomen of the mother to establish bonding before putting the baby in the bassinette or incubator if baby is premature. Several theorists also formulated on the psychosocial development from birth to adult and Erik Erikson became known to all as he related a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory identifying 8 stages of development that a person passes through from infancy to adulthood. He developed stages illustrating negative and positive effect on the psychosocial development of a human being from birth to old age and this is Trust versus Mistrust relating to infancy, Autonomy versus shame and doubt relating to early childhood, Initiative versus guilt relating to preschool age, Industry versus inferiority relating to school age, Identity versus role confusion relating to adolescence, Intimacy versus isolation relating to young adulthood, Generativity versus stagnation relating to middle adulthood, and Ego integrity versus despair relating to maturity or old age. Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist and his theory became popular and

The EYP organizes activities developing emotional well being in the school, working in a positive and affirmative manner. Each child is respected and treated uniquely in the classroom and activities were planned making the children feel that they are involved helps them establish an emotional well being. Children are encouraged to take part, formulating activities that would make the child participate, thus promotes fun and learning. Building the self esteem of the child is another important role of an EYP, and this makes up another foundation of a child in his/her personality development. Every individual has the desire to achieve higher and this can be measured by self esteem. There should be encouragement always in the part of the EYP by being positive and respectful so children feels confident enough to contribute in every activity. Rejection and embarrassment is totally eradicated. The EYP creates a caring environment by having an open eyes, ears, hands requiring full attention to details involving the child. Emotions are echoes of what and who we are as individuals and the EYP should be adept to extreme situations that would misunderstand the reactions a child may see. The behavior of the EYP requires to be positive and sympathetic all the time being the key person in