Modern children are very different from preschoolers of the mid and late 20th century. The world and the information space in it have changed so strongly and rapidly that it became noticeable even for young children.
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Step 1
Recent studies reveal that modern preschoolers have increased activity, high anxiety and excitability, aggressiveness, restlessness, a large amount of long-term memory, but they are poorly able to concentrate for a long time. Modern preschoolers are in many ways more persistent and demanding of their parents, they know how to reflect on the meaning of actions and do not want to fulfill meaningless requests. These children are self-confident and more willing to show emotions, but at the same time they are weaker in health, sometimes they have a number of diseases that children did not have before.
Step 2
Numerous changes in society have led to changes in the behavior of preschool children. Currently, parents are more serious about the development of their children, so a child already at an early age begins to show an increased craving for knowledge and absorb information that was not available to children of his age 20 years ago. Modern preschoolers at the age of 3-4 years are able to solve logical problems that were previously asked to children of 4-5 years of age. The time of psychological crises in preschool children has also shifted: the crisis of 3 years now comes a year or two later, while the crisis that previously occurred in a child before entering school now passes in children of 7-8 years.
Step 3
However, thanks to modern educational and computer technologies, the child's psyche becomes unstable. Every day he is faced with such huge flows of information that not every organism can withstand this. From an early age, a child is surrounded by TV, radio, cinema, computer games, the Internet, he learns to handle them, but often becomes restless, unstable attention, the inability to focus on one thing for a long time. Modern children can simultaneously listen to a fairy tale and draw or assemble a constructor, but sometimes they are unable to sit still during a conversation.
Step 4
They trace well the causal relationships of relationships between people, the plots of films or TV series. Their views are in many ways broader than those of children of their age before, they start thinking early on serious topics. But at the same time, they can be dependent in the simplest things: to tie their shoelaces, find clothes, make the bed. A serious problem in preschool children lies in their hyperactivity and speech quality. They talk a lot, loudly, but they don't pronounce sounds well, they don't try to translate the quantity of these sounds into quality. Almost every 5-year-old child now needs the help of a speech therapist in the formation of correct and competent speech. Not only articulation suffers, but also vocabulary, it is much poorer in modern children than their peers from the 20th century. Such an influence on them is exerted by the constant proximity of TV and computer games instead of books.
Step 5
In society today, close friendly ties between children have been broken, they have almost nowhere to communicate and play without the supervision of their parents or educators. Previously, this function was performed by children's yard groups. Today it is too dangerous to let a child go for a walk alone, so the role of a child's play has practically disappeared. The child still has educational games in kindergarten, but free creativity is becoming more and more irrelevant, therefore, the child's imagination is not manifested so vividly. There are no children and heroes who could teach them moral foundations by example. Modern heroes are bright, funny, but mostly empty, the child simply has no one to adopt the best patterns of behavior.
