Exploring website around the world

Learning about childhood education around the world is awesome. I decided to look into the research in Australia. Listed below you will find my questions alone with my response.   

v  What are some of the current international research topics? Separation anxiety is a research topic that caught my attention. I never understood why children cry/throw tantrums when parents have to leave them at the school. Getting that experience I know see why. I am a mother of a 2 year old and when dropping him off at school, I think the both of us go through the separation anxiety phase because we’ve never been apart from one another.

v  What surprising facts/insights/new ideas about early childhood did you gain from exploring this international early childhood website? On the website it talks about the severity of separation anxiety. There are two types of separation anxiety and the two types are healthy separation anxiety and separation anxiety disorder. They are similar but have some differences. According to the website each child starts as a healthy separation anxiety and when the child shows extreme symptoms that’s when healthy separation anxiety is considered as separation anxiety disorder.

v  What other noteworthy information did you find on this website? I see that the website offer different books parents that all been quality-assured by early childhood experts. Also, transitioning to school was a topic on the website and it gives parents great advice/fact sheet if help is needed for the big transition.

v  Overall, the website is amazing. I emailed them to let them know how pleased I was while viewing their website and also, I asked if they would send me their monthly newsletter so that I can keep up with what’s going on around the world.

 

Reference

http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/parent-resources/separation-anxiety/

http://www.helpguide.org/articles/anxiety/separation-anxiety-in-children.htm