The amount of information that a person receives every day exceeds all ideas and expectations. As a result, in order for the brain not to overload, a person subconsciously “filters” everything that he sees, focusing only on what is of value to him at the moment. The brain adapts to a continuous flow of information, which brings relevant results. So, for example, 15 years ago, in order to learn how to work on a computer, an adult needed to spend at least a few weeks, and today a five-year-old child skillfully copes with high-tech gadgets.
Such progress in human development has led to the fact that a child of preschool age is already undergoing legal education. Many do not understand why this is necessary, and perceive it as a waste of time and money. But in order to understand the appropriateness of such education, it is necessary to understand its definition, goals and effectiveness.
Legal education is teaching a child his rights as a person, citizen and child. This type of training implies familiarization with the basic laws that relate to the protection of individual rights and freedoms; clarification of their significance and methods of application and protection.
The purpose of legal education
Any actions for which there is no specific and clearly formulated goal are meaningless. Legal education aims to protect the child from violation of his rights and freedoms. It seeks to explain to the little man the framework of permissibility that exists for his environment.
Legal
education of preschoolers can protect them from sexual abuse of mentally unhealthy parents or acquaintances, and also teach them how to react to excessively cruel punishments of kindergarten teachers.
Terms and timeliness of education
It is quite logical and justified to ask a question about how effective legal education at an early age is. Of course, the child is not yet fully able to realize his rights and defend them. But such education is more aimed at ensuring that the child, while committing unlawful acts over him, is not silent, but can tell about them.
Legal education of schoolchildren, especially the
senior classes, is more methodical and justified. Teenagers are already beginning to understand
what life is and what difficulties it can bring. For this reason, they are interested in questions regarding rights and their protection.
It is important to pay special attention to the legal education of children, because this can protect them from abuse by adults or older students. It is necessary to teach the child to reveal his problems and anxieties, and not to keep everything inside, afraid of punishment. Very often there are cases in which children suffer because they have a sense of guilt for those indecent acts that they committed on them. They are afraid and embarrassed to talk about it and for the rest of their lives they feel like “second-class” people. To avoid this, you need to pay attention to your child and independently engage in his education.