Forcing Child's Development: Implications for Emotional Well-being of a Preschooler

This article investigates the problem of forcing a preschoolers development, analyzes its possible consequences for emotional sphere of a preschooler. In modern Russia there are many groups of early education (up to “prenatal”). Parents pay special attention to the intellectual aspect of education of their preschool children: they teach them reading, foreign languages, logical thinking and etc. In this case we consider it apt to speak about forcing a child's development. Under “forcing” we understand parents’ striving to accelerate child's development at the expense of a child's early transition to the next stage of development. We made research with its primary goal to examine the peculiarities of the emotional sphere of a preschoolers with the mother aiming to force the child's development. According to the results we obtained a general emotional ill-being of the examined preschoolers (confirmed by many fears and wishes showing child's ill-being). And mothers’ aiming to force the development of their children connected with the increasing of children's anxiety about shortage of emotional intimacy with their mothers.