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Analyse The Role Of Cultural Barriers In Child Development

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The challenges Sonia as well as her family face is a language barrier. She may feel because of the language barrier from the other kids and they do not understand her, she isolates herself. Sonia feels shy around her peers maybe she has some anxiety when talking to people and is afraid to open up to people. Because of her language barrier she may not understand her school work and she may not pick it up as fast as her peers. It is a challenge for the parents to get help for assistance because they have that language barrier and may not know where to go to get the help they need for Sonia. In Newman & Newman (2015), there are three social characteristics combine to increase a child’s experience of loneliness with Sonia. First children who are anxious and solitary have trouble forming close friendships that provide emotional closeness and companionship; Second, children are systematically excluded when they ask …show more content…

Erikson states it is critical that parents allow their children to explore the limits of their abilities within an encouraging environment which is tolerant of failure. If children are overly controlled, or not given the opportunity to assert themselves, they begin to feel inadequate in their ability to survive and may then become overly depended upon others, lack self-esteem, and feel a sense of shame or doubt in their own abilities (McLeod, 2013). Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behavior is the result of the interactions among three component parts of the mind: the id, ego, and superego. This theory places a great emphasis on the role of unconscious psychological conflicts in shaping behavior and personality (Boundless, 2016). Sonia behavior shows because at school she isolates herself because she thinks she is different from her peers. She has to learn to not be afraid and open up to her

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