Effect of Fashion on Child Development and His Cognition
“Fashion is a general term for a popular style or
practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, or furniture.
"Fashion" refers to a distinctive; however, often-habitual trend in a
look and dress up of a person, as well as to prevailing styles in behavior”
Ok friend I hope you understand the meaning of fashion and
its related term but here I am raising a big issue which is the other side of
the fashion that is NEGATIVE IMPACT OF
FASHION OVER OUR MINDS. As we all
know brain is just a complex neurological system and work with synaptic connections,
as we develop and grow, we slowly develop new connections every single day,
this generally called learning. During my practices of child psychology I had seen some of major and drastic changes, in
the behavior of children’s , which seriously affecting the normal growth of
children’s . Some of them are;-
1) Peers Pressure
2) Anorexia
3) Habit Of Stealing
4) Unable To Manage Money
5) Low Self Image
6)
Low Concentration
1)- Peer
Pressure –
As all know the power of peer pressure, it create constant obsession
in the mind of the child to make him superior over other , when we talk this in
fashion prospective it get slightly toward
lethal side, child get easy influence with T.V , friend and surrounding . They
follow the style, look , manner of behavior and start a fantasy life which harm
when we grow and unable to maintain the same level of effectiveness.
2)-
Anorexia-
Eating disorder is directly connected with the development psychological
aspect of the personality. In this problem
child see the magazines , news papers and get impressed by celebrities and try
to look and wear as same as there hero’s, they try to force their self physically to
maintained their look and feel respected. But when this process goes long it
creates a kind of obsession in the mind the child. He may try to escape meal
and force his body to fit in the fram of celebrity, this is a disorder and it
would lead person toward personality problems.
3)- Habit
Of Stealing –
All type of fashion need money , in our region (INDIA) the
concept of pocket money is very limited, the children get only the basic but for the fashion stuff money is required that’s
why money arrangement is the big issue
so I had seen some case that child developed stealing habit and lying.
4)- Lower
Money Management –
Because of the content obsession of new cloth, new style , children
just unable to develop senses of saving and always feel that they need more money,
this sense lower the saving thinking.
5)- Low
Self Esteem:-
When there is constant need to look better, feel amazing, the
strive go endlessly gratification and slowly this develop a sense of inadequacy
and child develop feeling that he don’t look better, he wouldn’t have such magical
personality, cloth and status which give him name and fame then a constant low
feeling develop and this will create a low self stem child development, which
is very harmful of the development of the personality.
Effect of fashion over academic is now quite normal child
slowly distracted toward fashion and social attention and he lose steam of study,
it directly affect over concentration level which lower our capacity to memorize
thing, this lower concentration reduce the chances of success in academic areas
of the child.
Thank
Rajesh C.Pandey
Child Psychologist & Career counselor
