A four-year-old boy says that he loves Masha, an 11-year-old girl sleeps, hugging a magazine with a portrait of Dima Bilan, and the adults laugh and say: "What love can be in their age!" In fact, such a "training of the senses" is absolutely necessary for a developing person.
It is quite rare to meet people who have loved each other since school, but still there are couples who have been together since childhood. And even when the second, the third follows the first love, it is impossible to forget the first. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the feelings of the growing little person.
It is worth remembering that the child is hardly aware of any differences in his feelings from "adults". For him, everything is quite serious, and you can greatly offend him if you laugh at his love or brush it off.
The love of a small child does not yet have a sexual component. The feelings of a teenager during the formation of sexuality, on the contrary, can be quite strongly accentuated on physical attraction.
And one more serious difference between "childish" love from an adult is its lesser value. One way or another, an adult evaluates a potential partner, seeing or not seeing him as a possible life partner, correlating him with some social or personal criteria, with some ideals. The child perceives so far more uncloudedly, not comparing anyone with anyone and not making far-reaching plans.
Children aged 3 to 5 years
This is the age when a baby's affection can change every day. Today he loves Sasha, and tomorrow he can love Olya. And some babies are capable of falling in love with their own parents. Often four-year-old boys want to marry their mother, and girls want to marry their father. This is a normal stage in a child's development. It is worth telling the child that the mother already has a husband, and that the baby, when he grows up, will meet his wife.
5-7 years
Children at this age love to imitate adults. They can hug the object of their sympathy. And even if the boy kissed the girl, this does not mean that he can be excited, he just saw his uncle kissing his aunt from the TV screen. If rings or candies have disappeared in the house, maybe the baby is just giving them to someone?
Very often, children want to tell their parents about their feelings. If adults at this stage do not want to listen to him or will scoff, the baby will no longer be able to trust them and will never tell his secrets.
7-12 years old
At first, the child may hide his feelings, because classmates can make fun of them. Therefore, boys often pull their pigtails, throw snowballs at girls in order to be noticed. Primary school students are very romantic. But after 12 years, children can already feel the signs of sexual arousal. Boys often take information from the Internet, television, magazines and gaze at high school girls. It is with children of this age that you need to be extremely careful. They can meet very strong love, which they will carry over many years. One should not allow the child to make irreparable mistakes. If he quarrels with a girl, it is worth suggesting how he will reconcile. Or, if he wants to attract someone's attention, explain how to do it.
