Children's Confidence Research Articles

THE EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION THROUGH PUZZLE GAMES TO CHILDREN'S PERCEPTION ABOUT SNACKS SELECTION IN SD PESAWAHAN SIDOARJO SCHOOL

Stages of school-age children have more activity outside the home; this causes children often forget the time to eat,so they buy snacks to delay hunger. By providing balanced nutrition education through puzzle games can change the perception of children so they can choose a healthy snack. The purpose of this research is to prove the influence of balanced nutrition education through puzzle game to children's perception about the selection of snacks in SD PesawahanSidoarjo. This research design uses one group pre-post test design. The population of this study is all 4-6 grade children in SD PesawahanSidoarjo with 54 respondents. The sample of this research is some of grade 4-5 students in SD PesawahanSidoarjo as many as 48 respondents taken with simple random sampling. Measuring tool used a questionnaire to assess perception with 100% valid and reliable test with ρ = 0.961. Time of study March 2017. A statistic test using T-Test. The results showed that respondents who had a positive perception of 25 (52.1%) of respondents increased to 36 (75%) respondents after balanced nutrition education through puzzle game. T-test result ρcount 0.000 = and atable = 0,05. This means balanced nutrition education through puzzle games can improve the perception of children about the selection of snacks in SD PesawahanSidoarjo. Learning through puzzle games can foster self-confidence in children and children able to solve problems. This makes the child more comfortable so that the message conveyed through the puzzle game will be easily understood by the child. This increased understanding will affect the perception of the child.

THE EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION THROUGH PUZZLE GAMES TO CHILDREN'S PERCEPTION ABOUT SNACKS SELECTION IN SD PESAWAHAN SIDOARJO SCHOOL

Stages of school-age children have more activity outside the home; this causes children often forget the time to eat,so they buy snacks to delay hunger. By providing balanced nutrition education through puzzle games can change the perception of children so they can choose a healthy snack. The purpose of this research is to prove the influence of balanced nutrition education through puzzle game to children's perception about the selection of snacks in SD PesawahanSidoarjo. This research design uses one group pre-post test design. The population of this study is all 4-6 grade children in SD PesawahanSidoarjo with 54 respondents. The sample of this research is some of grade 4-5 students in SD PesawahanSidoarjo as many as 48 respondents taken with simple random sampling. Measuring tool used a questionnaire to assess perception with 100% valid and reliable test with ρ = 0.961. Time of study March 2017. A statistic test using T-Test. The results showed that respondents who had a positive perception of 25 (52.1%) of respondents increased to 36 (75%) respondents after balanced nutrition education through puzzle game. T-test result ρcount 0.000 = and atable = 0,05. This means balanced nutrition education through puzzle games can improve the perception of children about the selection of snacks in SD PesawahanSidoarjo. Learning through puzzle games can foster self-confidence in children and children able to solve problems. This makes the child more comfortable so that the message conveyed through the puzzle game will be easily understood by the child. This increased understanding will affect the perception of the child.

Enhancing energy literacy in children using zn/cu/potato batteries

Background . The major challenges that prevent the wide-scale adoption of emerging personal clean energy production are unawareness and low self-confidence. We tested a hypothesis that a combination of a new technology and educational methods could lead to the increase in awareness of children to clean energy possibilities and to an increase in self-confidence in applying them. Methods . Here we report on a toolkit that combines low carbon, clean energy source, Zn/Cu/potato batteries, sufficient to power light-emitting diodes, with a non-formal education by experience program, based on case studies and hands-on experience with battery assembly for 6-11 years old children, led by trained 12-14 old youth leaders. Results . The results show that the education experience increased the awareness of the children to produce electricity at home from unconventional, yet available raw materials and their self-confidence in being able to do this (p=0.008). Conclusions. The developed toolkit supports environmental and energy literacy education through non-formal training, increasing awareness and self-confidence in children to actually apply this in their living environment to produce clean energy.

An exploration of predictors of children's nurses' attitudes, knowledge, confidence and clinical behavioural intentions towards children and young people who self-harm.

To explore the potential predictors of children's nurses' attitudes, knowledge and confidence towards caring for children and young people admitted to hospital with self-harm. Admissions to paediatric inpatient settings for individuals who have self-harmed are growing. Limited previous research suggests that nurses have mixed attitudes towards people who have self-harmed and potentially lack the confidence to provide effective care. There is a specific paucity of research in this area for children's nurses. A cross-sectional descriptive survey was used to gather data for exploration of variables associated with attitudes, confidence, knowledge and clinical behavioural intentions of 98 registered children's nurses in a single tertiary children's hospital, colocated in a large acute NHS Trust in the UK. Data were collected over a 4weeks in 2015, using an online survey tool. The predictive effect of several demographic variables was tested on the outcomes of attitudes, knowledge, confidence and behavioural intentions, which were collected using relevant, previously used outcome measures. Increased experience was found to be associated with improved attitudes relating to negativity. Previous training in caring for children who had self-harmed was found to be associated with improved attitudes around perceived effectiveness of their care. Higher academic qualifications and having undertaken previous training on self-harm were each found to be associated with increased knowledge of self-harm, and increased age was associated with reduced knowledge of self-harm. This study provides an initial exploration of variables associated with attitudes, knowledge, confidence and behaviour intentions of registered children's nurses in relation to caring for CYP who have self-harmed. Targeted training on caring for CYP who have self-harmed should be considered as a component of continuing education for registered children's nurses in the UK to improve the experience and outcomes for this patient group.

Opinions and observations of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy about changes seen after reflexology: A qualitative study

The aim of this research was to examine the effect of reflexology on the problems of children with cerebral palsy from perspective of caregivers. Qualitative study was made after 24-session reflexology program. 12 caregivers who have 2-18 year-old children with spastic type cerebral palsy receiving special education and received reflexology. The thematic questions were determined and in-depth interviews were conducted. Themes of the study were determined as; the caregiver's views on reflexology, the effect of reflexology on health of children with CP and the caregivers’ observations on child after reflexology therapy, positive and negative aspects and causes of reflexology treatment. As a results; the caregivers expressed that there were increases in self-confidence of children, improvement in walking, reduced spasticity, relaxation, decreases in constipation, and increases in communication, speech and perception after reflexology.

Under the hammer

Woodwork is increasingly recognised as a great way to fuel children's confidence across all learning areas. Now Tinkering 4Kids is supporting this with real tools for young hands. Sal McKeown finds out more.

Gambaran Penanaman Rasa Percaya Diri Anak Usia Dini oleh Guru di Lembaga PAUD Adzkia III Kelurahan Korong Gadang Kecamatan Kuranji Kota Padang

This research is motivated by the high self-confidence of early child in PAUD Adzkia III Village Korong Gadang, District Kuranji, Padang City. This research is quantitative descriptive research. The population in this study was 29 teachers. Sampling using cluster random sampling technique obtained 22 people sample from 75% population. Data collection techniques used are questionnaires, while the data collection tool using a questionnaire sheet. The data analysis technique used is the percentage formula. The result of the research shows that 1) the picture of self-confidence planting through the independent aspect given by the teacher to the child looks very good, 2) the picture of confidence planting through positive thinking aspect given by the teacher to the child looks very good, and 3) the picture the cultivation of trust through the brave aspect of expressing the opinion given by the teacher to the child looks very good. Suggestions in this study is expected to the teacher in order to maintain and increase confidence planting in school so that the child's confidence continues to increase.

Effects of cycle skills training on children's cycling-related knowledge, confidence and behaviours

Abstract Background Cycle skills training (CST) in a traffic free and light traffic environment is a promising approach to improve children's cycling-related skills and knowledge. This study examined the effects of short-term CST on children's cycling-related knowledge, confidence and behaviours. Methods Children (n = 429; 11.0 ± 0.9 years; 52.1% boys; 3 schools) participated in either playground-based CST (Traffic-Free CST; n = 164) or playground-based plus on-road CST (Traffic-Free+OnRoad CST; n = 265) in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2015–2016. Children completed pre-training and post-training surveys and practical skills assessment. Data were analysed using McNemar tests and paired t-tests. Results At baseline, 36.6% of children cycled ≥1/week, 7.7% cycled to school and 40.3% preferred cycling to school. Both types of CST significantly improved children's cycling-related knowledge (Traffic-Free: 80.8 ± 10.8% to 90.8 ± 10.3%; Traffic-Free+OnRoad: 84.2 ± 9.4% to 95.0 ± 5.9%; both p Conclusion CST with or without on-road training improved children's cycling-related knowledge, and self-perceived confidence to cycle on playgrounds and on the road but not to school. Traffic-Free+OnRoad CST had positive but small effects on increasing cycling to school. Additional interventions targeting parents, schools and built environment changes may be necessary for behavioural change.

IMPLEMENTASI PERMAINAN MENANGKAP BOLA PADA KELENTURAN DAN KOORDINASI OTOT JARI DAN TANGAN ANAK USIA 2 - 3 TAHUN

Children aged 2-3 years is a child whose motor development is very rapid, so it is necessary to conduct activities to train children motor, motorik should be directed and trained in some activities that are implemented in the game to catch the ball so that flexibility and coordination of finger muscles and hands of children develop in thorough in accordance with the maturity of the child itself. This study was conducted on 3 children aged 2-3 years who have not been able to catch the ball well, so the practice of catching the ball that is divided into three sessions that is close to the ball with a distance of 60 cm, the second using the technique five times catch the ball, but with the distance increased to 90 cm, and the third catch the ball that adds up to ten times but with the same distance of 90 cm until the child can catch the ball well. The game research catches the ball executed with a 15 hour time for 15 days in the live researcher's environment. In the results of this case study seen the movement between flexibility and finger muscle coordination began to wake up. This ability is influenced by the practice of catching the ball that is often done so that the child's body position and hands become flexible to catch every ball thrown at him. This of course adds to the child's concentration power, thinking power, skills, confidence and happiness in children. The more often a child practicing catching the ball the better the attitude and posture that the child has.

Language Has No Positive Terms

This sound art composition is a meditation on the arbitrariness of linguistic signs and the idea that language has no positive terms: "signs have no special right to mean something in particular and not something else" (Bignell: 9). As a first-time father, the interactions I have with my four-year-old daughter are mostly related to my responsibility to facilitate her sensory exploration of the world around her. This includes supporting her formalisation of linguistic expression and numeracy skills through story recall and construction, number identification, and pattern/rhythm awareness. These language-based learning activities benefit early childhood development by progressing a child's social awareness, confidence and resiliency. A tension exists, therefore, between the power of language as a vital navigational tool and the unassailable instability of meaning.
 As a creative response, this composition features extracts from audio recordings of our conversations. The fragments of utterances, like the synthetic buzzing that returns and haunts, shift between audibility and inaudibility, meaning and non-meaning. Each time it's played, digital audio technology brings our absence into the present; we become acousmatic textures inside the body of the listener who "cannot listen away as one can look away" (Connor: 133), oscillating the small bones in the middle ears and sending electrical signals to the brain . Through this treatment of language, we may be emptied of meaning but not of the positive meaningfulness of our interactions.
 
 BIGNELL, Jonathan (2002). Media Semiotics: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press. CONNOR, Steven (2011). “Ears Have Walls: On Hearing Art.” Sound: Documents of Contemporary Art. Ed. Caleb Kelly. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 129-39.

HUBUNGAN POLA PENGASUHAN ORANG TUA DENGAN TINDAKAN PENCEGAHAN KEKERASAN SEKSUAL PADA ANAK (Studi Kasus Dalam Rangka Pencegahan Kekerasan Seksual Pada Anak di Kota Mojokerto)

Cases of sexual abuse of children is one of the cases that have increased quantitatively also qualitative. The parental care in providing reproductive health education influence children’s growth and development, especially in reproductive health problems.This study aimed to analyze the relationship patterns of parenting with reproductive health behavior of children in order to prevent sexual abuse of children in Mojokerto. The research design was crosssectional. This research was conducted in Mojokerto in June 2016. The population were all students in 4 th and 5 th grade and their parents. The research sample of 103 people that selected using simple random sampling. Data collection was carried distributing questionnaires to the respondents. Data analyzed by using Chi Square and Fisher's Exact test. The results showed that there is a relationship between the parenting with reproductive health action in order to prevent child sexual abuse in children.Reproductive health education by parents to children can increase children's awareness and confidence that will eventually affect attitudes. If the child is already getting reproductive health education from parent, then the child will try to keep her reproductive health and trying to keep himself in order to avoid sexual violence . Keyword: parenting, behavior, reproduction, violence

Children with depression and family

Depression is a psychiatric disease with a predominant symptom, emotional disturbance, physical annoyances and difficulties in interpersonal relationships. It can occur at any age, even in children. About 3 % of all children may experience depression. Depression as a disease affects the whole body and has an impact on how the child feels, thinks and behaves. These symptoms are accompanied by a number of other symptoms that affect appetite, sleep, levels of activity and concentration, children's self-confidence, and the image they have formed for themselves. Children with depression are usually sad and generally experience the disease in a similar way to older people.

AAL Platform with a "De Facto" Standard Communication Interface (TICO): Training in Home Control in Special Education.

Framed within a long-term cooperation between university and special education teachers, training in alternative communication skills and home control was realized using the “TICO” interface, a communication panel editor extensively used in special education schools. From a technological view we follow AAL technology trends by integrating a successful interface in a heterogeneous services AAL platform, focusing on a functional view. Educationally, a very flexible interface in line with communication training allows dynamic adjustment of complexity, enhanced by an accessible mindset and virtual elements significance already in use, offers specific interaction feedback, adapts to the evolving needs and capacities and improves the personal autonomy and self-confidence of children at school and home. TICO-home-control was installed during the last school year in the library of a special education school to study adaptations and training strategies to enhance the autonomy opportunities of its pupils. The methodology involved a case study and structured and semi-structured observations. Five children, considered unable to use commercial home control systems were trained obtaining good results in enabling them to use an open home control system. Moreover this AAL platform has proved efficient in training children in previous cognitive steps like virtual representation and cause-effect interaction.

One-to-one time

Judith Harries suggests introducing ‘talk partners’ into your setting to fuel children's confidence when it comes to communicating, listening and sharing ideas. The strategy also supports cooperation.

Let's get dressed!

Being able to put on clothes is an important skill which builds children's self confidence. In the first of a new series of poems focused on independence, Brenda Williams suggests activities to support this.

A randomized controlled trial of a group-based gaze training intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder.

The aim of this study was to integrate a gaze training intervention (i.e., quiet eye training; QET) that has been shown to improve the throwing and catching skill of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), within an approach (i.e., group therapy) that might alleviate the negative psychosocial impact of these motor skill deficits. Twenty-one children with DCD were split into either QET (8 male 3 female, mean age of 8.6 years (SD = 1.04) or technical training (TT) groups (7 male 3 female, mean age of 8.6 years (SD = 1.84). The TT group were given movement-related instructions via video, relating to the throw and catch phases, while the QET group were also taught to fixate a target location on the wall prior to the throw (QE1) and to track the ball prior to the catch (QE2). Each group partook in a 4-week, group therapy intervention and measurements of QE duration and catching performance were taken before and after training, and at a 6-week delayed retention test. Parental feedback on psychosocial and motor skill outcomes was provided at delayed retention. Children improved their gaze control and catching coordination following QET, compared to TT. Mediation analysis showed that a longer QE aiming duration (QE1) predicted an earlier onset of tracking the ball prior to catching (QE2) which predicted catching success. Parents reported enhanced perceptions of their child’s catching ability and general coordination in the QET group compared to the TT group. All parents reported improvements in their child’s confidence, social skills and predilection for physical activity following the trial. The findings offer initial support for an intervention that practitioners could apply to address deficits in the motor and psychosocial skills of children with DCD.Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02904980

Triangulation and age as predictors of children's perception of the destructive effects of parental conflict on the family system

The child's confidence in the family system contributes to the development of emotional security, which in turn has a positive effect on the child's development. Parental conflicts can have a negative impact on the child's perception of the family system and can lead to the development of emotional insecurity. Triangulation, or the involvement of the child in parental conflict, is an additional risk factor for the development of the child's destructive perceptions of the family. Our study focused on the links between triangulation and the child's perception of parental conflict as destructive for the family system, as well as on the moderating role of the child's age. The sample consisted of 146 children, with an average age of thirteen. The respondents were asked to complete the following questionnaires: The child's perception of parental conflict and Security within the parental subsystem. The findings of moderation analysis show that triangulation is a significant individual predictor of destructive perceptions of the family (β=-.068, p<.01), and that age is a significant moderator of the effects of triangulation on destructive perceptions of the family (β=.167, p<.05). Young adolescents are more likely than children in middle adolescence to perceive that parental conflict is destructive to the family system if they play the role of passive observer. Age differences can be explained by the cognitive immaturity of younger children and their inability to foresee the consequences of conflict and the reasons for its occurrence. The findings highlight the importance of age-appropriate parental actions in situations of marital conflict.

Opening minds to new opportunities

With a 30-year history of delivering ‘thrilling’, outdoor learning activities that build children's confidence and personal growth, Kingswood centres are now expanding.

Puddle splash

Jenni Clarke continues her exploration of mud play, this time looking at the perennial appeal of muddy puddles to support the development of children's self-confidence and self awareness.

What Makes Children Defy Majorities? The Role of Dissenters in Chinese and Spanish Preschoolers' Social Judgments.

When many people say the same thing, the individual is more likely to endorse this information than when just a single person says the same. Yet, the influence of consensus information may be modulated by many personal, contextual and cultural variables. Here, we study the sensitivity of Chinese (N = 68) and Spanish (N = 82) preschoolers to consensus in social decision making contexts. Children faced two different types of peer-interaction events, which involved (1) uncertain or ambiguous scenarios open to interpretation (social interpretation context), and (2) explicit scenarios depicting the exclusion of a peer (moral judgment context). Children first observed a video in which a group of teachers offered their opinion about the events, and then they were asked to evaluate the information provided. Participants were assigned to two conditions that differed in the type of consensus: Unanimous majority (non-dissenter condition) and non-unanimous majority (dissenter condition). In the dissenter condition, we presented the conflicting opinions of three teachers vs. one teacher. In the non-dissenter condition, we presented the unanimous opinion of three teachers. The general results indicated that children’s sensitivity to consensus varies depending both on the degree of ambiguity of the social events and the presence or not of a dissenter: (1) Children were much more likely to endorse the majority view when they were uncertain (social interpretation context), than when they already had a clear interpretation of the situation (moral judgment context); (2) The presence of a dissenter resulted in a significant decrease in children’s confidence in majority. Interestingly, in the moral judgment context, Chinese and Spanish children differed in their willingness to defy a majority whose opinion run against their own. While Spanish children maintained their own criteria regardless of the type of condition, Chinese children did so when an “allied” dissenter was present (dissenter condition) but not when confronting a unanimous majority (non-dissenter condition). Tentatively, we suggest that this difference might be related to culture-specific patterns regarding children’s deference toward adults.