Very often, looking at a child, we try to understand what is happening in his head, what he thinks, what worries him. There are a lot of ways to understand and read his mood, but I would like to invite you to understand your child through his drawings. Every time a child picks up a pencil and draws, he pours out his fears, experiences, shocks and fantasies to a sheet of paper. Whatever he feels, no matter how he behaves in relation to others, he will put everything into his drawing. To unravel the mood and state of the child thoroughly is the business of psychologists, but you yourself can see and analyze some of the details.
The chosen colors, drawn objects, lines, strokes and outlines of objects can tell a lot.
If you want to understand how your child feels about the family, gently invite him to draw a family. Track who he drew first, who - the last, who he forgot about at all. Pay attention to the distance of the drawn family members from each other, their location.
The child will not only beautifully portray the most beloved and authoritative member of the family, but also embellish with some thing. In addition, the most authoritative family member for him will be portrayed, most likely, as the largest.
If a child draws himself between the parents, he is satisfied with the attitude of the parents towards himself, and if he draws somewhere aside or does not draw at all, there is some problem worth thinking about. The idol child and the selfish child will portray himself as larger than the rest.
The child can highlight some parts of the body. For example, if the mother has a highlighted mouth, it means she is tired of the child with her lectures and lectures. If the arms are too long (pay special attention to this), it means that excessive aggression towards the child reigns in the family.
It happens that a child deliberately does not draw any of the family members and gives a logical explanation for this. For example, a child does not draw or forgets to draw a brother because he is jealous. Also, he may not draw someone from the family members, because he simply is not at home or in the room. If a child drew someone from the family in a dark color, it means that he treats this person extremely negatively.
Pay special attention to the colors chosen by the baby. Concerned children usually paint in dark colors, while children in a good mood tend to paint with tender and bright colors. In particular, black and brown colors speak of depression, purple and yellow - about calmness and poise, cold colors - about conflict within the family, red - about aggression and excitability, pink and blue - about cheerfulness.
