Every child likes to draw, whether it is the line drawing when he was a little baby or the bigger cartoon drawing. In the children's writings, all kinds of patterns always appear.

Every child likes to draw, whether it is the line drawing when he is a little baby or the bigger cartoon drawing. In the children's writings, all kinds of patterns always appear.

Maybe parents see more about their children's ability in painting, such as whether they have the talent for painting, such as their ability to perceive colors...

However, painting also has a very important role that deserves attention from our parents, that is, through children's paintings, they can see the expression behind the patterns. We can see the different emotions of children from these pictures.

Italian author Evi Crotty systematically introduces the fears shown by children of different ages and growth stages in graffiti in his book "Children's Fear Psychology: Understanding Children's Fear Emotions from Graffiti", and gives targeted, simple and practical suggestions.

At the beginning of this book, the author first introduced fear and how to interpret fear in graffiti and painting.

Although we know that various emotional states will accompany children's growth, fear is not what many parents think of as negative negative and bad emotions.

The authors tell us that fear can be seen as a self-protection mechanism that is beneficial to children's growth because it can inspire children to respond to some of their responses to protect themselves from potential dangers from outside.

1. Types of fear

According to the severity of fear trepidation, fear can be divided into the following types:

Physiological fear trepidation: that is, natural fear trepidation, related to the physical constitution of children.

Normal fear emotions: that is, fear emotions directly related to children's growth.

vigilant fear: that is, fear that helps improve children's reaction ability.

blocking fear: that is, fear that hinders children's ability to respond.

Pathological fear emotions: that is, fear emotions in the true clinical sense.

Regarding children's fear emotions, what we need to know is: we must adopt different coping methods for fear emotions of different severity. The severity of fear depends on the ability to deal with fear. Children's fears are more interpreted than addressed.

2. How to express fear

Children's fear traits are generally not smoothly and directly expressed. Sometimes they are not spoken through their mouths, especially in an environment where children feel depressed, and they will not express their fear directly.

So, how can we tell whether children are in fear? You can refer to the following situations.

behavioral degeneration, that is, the behaviors and behaviors of children are different from those in the past, which remind people of infants and young children, so we must consider whether the child is in fear. For example, a child who could have been independent suddenly became very attached to adults and had to be with adults wherever they went.

At a certain stage of growth, the ability to control the bladder and intestines is weakened, such as wetting the bed and wetting the pants, etc. In fact, this should not happen at this stage.

Children appear listless or tend to be alone, and parents need to pay attention to whether their children are in fear. For example, a child with a lively and cheerful personality becomes only willing to stay in his room alone.

Some children's reactions are exaggerated, such as blushing, shy or pale when talking to adults, and you should also consider whether you have fear.

Children have passiveness, that is, manifestations of laziness, have an inert reaction to all things, events or situations, or may be fear.

Children have no cause impulses, strong or violent tendencies, or may also be due to fear.

If a child suddenly becomes particularly annoying and makes people feel bored, it may also be self-protection caused by fear. There is a situation where you frequently hit people, or maybe you choose to attack the other party actively because of fear.

Children have abnormal behaviors, such as insomnia, frequent tantrums, certain obsessions (such as food choices), inexplicable reactions and other manifestations.

3. The role of fear

Fear emotions are not bad. For children, their main function is self-protection, which can help the formation and construction of children's personality, and improve the self-protection mechanism.

Fear emotions are still a survival need. In an unfavorable environment, fear emotions can make people adapt to the current environment or adjust their coping strategies.

fear can help prepare for danger, it is a kind of experience-based " psychological training ".

Fear can prompt people to be vigilant and push them to take action as soon as possible.

fear emotion also has an important role, which is to promote the development of individual resilience. This resilience is a conscious behavior that enables humans to transform the environment.

understands the situation related to fear emotions. So, how do we see children's fear emotions through graffiti and painting?

Perhaps children cannot express their various emotions through language or words, but through graffiti or painting, children can present us with a brand new language, which expresses rich meanings without any constraints or modifications.

These graffiti and paintings also provide us parents or educators with a unique opportunity to understand the real needs of children and their inner world.

We can feel a lot of information by observing some behaviors of children during graffiti. For example, the relaxation or tension of the grip posture, the spatial position of "I" in the picture, the smoothness of the lines, the strength of the painting, various shapes in the graffiti, whether they are erased during the painting process, etc.

We all know that everyone has various emotions, such as joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, pain, sadness, fear, etc. There is no difference between good and bad emotions. They are the signal lights of the body that reflect our psychological state to us.

children's emotions are worthy of the focus of attention of parents and educators, and fearful emotions well reflect some of the unhappy processes children experience in their growth.

This kind of emotion needs to be expressed and seen. For children, graffiti or painting is a very good way to express it and is also an important way for us adults to understand children.

Let us, through this book, through various pictures in the book, to see the true voices in the hearts of children.