children's mental Health and hygeine in home and school

Home and School play big role in fostering mental health and hygiene among children. The systematic growth and development of children foster healthy mind and mental hygiene . Each stage of growth and development of human being has it's own way of presenting skills and abilities. Following are the ways for developing good mental health and hygiene.

1. Proper care with love should be given to the children .
2. Overprotection should be avoided.
3. Confidence level and trust should be promoted.
4. Children should be given opportunities to express their innate potentialities.
5. Children should be taught time management.
6. Conducive environment at home and school help the children to develop their mental health and hygiene.
7. Children should be properly taught to face new situations,and problems.
8. Children imitate their parents and teachers.So they should possess values to develop value among children.
9. Children should be motivated to bring out their creativity
10. They shoud be oriented on stressors' and stress coping.
11. Children should be taught with psycological approach.
12. Individual differences should be considered without comparing one another.
13. Motivation , rewards and awards are instituted to promote desirable change in behaviour.
14. Children should be involved in decision making.
15. Strengths of children should be developed and weaknesses be eliminated.
16. Activities are to be planned in such  a way to promote physical facilities, intellectual abilities, and spiritual development.
17. All their basic needs to be met for developing mental health and hygiene.

In short, all activities are well planned and practiced for developing proper mental health and hygiene of children at home and scholin order to make them contributing members of society.

source of: PSYCOLOGY OF LEARNING AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.DR.M.MANIVANNAN