Modern parents choose to promote their children according to their aptitudes, but how do we know if our child excels in any particular area?
Every child has unique emotional bases and identities, therefore they respond differently to various stimuli. Hence, understanding the child’s identity is crucial so that parents can respond adequately to each child, aiming for their excellent development at each age. Promoting a child’s development and providing appropriate responses for their age, will result in their intellectual, emotional, social skills, problem-solving, and creativity development, leading to future success. This is what every parent desires since they are key figures in building the staircase to their children’s success.
Assessing a child’s identity to provide guidance on development and proper parenting for each child with specific standard tools by pediatricians and developmental pediatric specialists, can be done from the age of 9 months to 5 years old through the Smiling Owl program, which screens child development using tools such as ASQ, Denver II, and various tests, to prepare them before entering school and measuring the excellence of their developmental stages.
Each child’s journey to success and happiness should include what’s called the 7Ps, which are:
- Having good intellectual and brain development
- Being emotionally intelligent
- Being able to understand one’s own and others’ emotions, and creating happiness for oneself
- Having social skills to live happily with others
- Being responsible, ethical, and having personal virtues
- Being able to solve problems and face crises
- Being creative and imaginative, with new ideas, and having improved health and quality of life
Additionally, there are various development assessment tools such as IQ, problem-solving abilities, language comprehension, planning abilities, and the ability to inhibit impulses, etc. Once the child’s identity is known, doctors can give parents guidance on promoting development and parenting appropriately, which will help parents choose to foster their child’s abilities leading to their future success.
