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Mar 10, 2010 23:19
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Spanish term

No fomentar la activación del niño

Non-PRO Spanish to English Medical Medical (general) Hyperactivity
Trying to stay away from the words 'stimulate' and 'excite' her for obvious reasons :-) 'Activarse' is used in the following line too. Any other synonyms welcome. Thanks.

**No fomentar la activación del niño**:

Estos niños tienen una facilidad extraordinaria para activarse y mucha dificultad para inhibirse y controlarse. Por este motivo, son más vulnerables a la influencia del ambiente inmediato. Si el entorno es estresante, si los gritos son frecuentes, si el ambiente es desorganizado, es muy probable que su inestabilidad se manifieste en forma de una hiperactividad incontrolada y una excitabilidad muy marcada.

Los padres pueden ayudar a crear un ambiente más relajado para que el niño actúe de una forma más moderada. A menudo se encuentran con la dificultad añadida de que ellos también son hiperactivos y que educar a un niño hiperactivo conlleva una dificultad extra que, en ocasiones, les hace perder los nervios.

Discussion

Lisa McCarthy (asker) Mar 18, 2010:
- Hi all, sorry to close this without awarding points, but I eventually settled on 'Do not over stimulate the child'. Sorry for leading you up the garden path here, I know I didn´t want to use the words 'stimulate' or 'excite' but I found a good few references in this context for 'over stimulate' children so decided to go with that. Thank you all for your time and help :)
Lisa McCarthy (asker) Mar 11, 2010:
@Trudy Maybe it's just me then, Trudy :-) It's just that when you try to find this usage on the web you generally get sexual content :-) Sign of the times.
Trudy Peters Mar 11, 2010:
@Lisa I don't see anything wrong with stimulate or excite.
Lisa McCarthy (asker) Mar 10, 2010:
Hi Teju Sorry, it's for the UK. I did think of 'get worked up' but maybe it's a bit too informal.
teju Mar 10, 2010:
Hi Lisa, is this for the UK? In the US, you could say the child gets "worked up", don't know if this is useful or not. As far as the title, you could say something like "Discourage excessive activity/stimulus".

Proposed translations

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not encourage the child into action/activity

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Keep children calm/relaxed

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Help them (the child) stay calm

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16 mins

easily aroused...

ADD children are "easily aroused" which would fit your "facilidad para activarse".

Not sure how the same term fits "no fomentar la activación del niño. Something like: don't encourage child to be overaroused.

This site may be of use:
http://www.troubledwith.com/ParentingChildren/A000000367.cfm...


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Yes, I guess you are right, Lisa. Some useful terms get corrupted and become "dirty".
Note from asker:
Hi Cecilia, I'm not sure about 'arouse' as it tends to have the same sexual conotation sometimes as 'excite' and 'stimulate' :-)
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Do not encourage the child to act up

The first mention of "activarse" seems very clearly intended to mean 'act up' (or often incorrectly phrased 'act out)'- possibly a translation of original English. So I'm assuming "activación' is a reference back to "activarse".

Below is a quote from an article explaining the difference between 'acting out' and 'acting up':

Acting-up, (i.e. conscious, deliberate misbehaving) is NOT acting-out. It is truly appalling how many times people use the term acting out to refer to someone who’s simply exhibiting undesirable behavior. I hear TV commercials by behavioral therapists offering to fix your child’s “acting-out” behaviors, and see rules in psychiatric hospitals and residential centers forbidding “sexual acting-out” or other inappropriate conduct. One online psychiatric glossary even gave two definitions for acting-out, one correct, the other being the mistaken notion that has so deeply crept into the popular lexicon that it’s made a correct understanding of the concept almost impossible.
The real danger in misusing this term ['acting out'] is that one can make a disastrous presumption that every time someone acts in an inappropriate manner, they’re necessarily and unconsciously playing out some kind of inner conflict (i.e. unresolved “issues”), when the fact may be that they’re simply engaging in immature, irresponsible behavior which they’re aware they shouldn’t be doing and that’s completely within their ability to control. Misperceiving the nature of circumstances is a major way people end up being abused by irresponsible characters. It’s also how clinicians inadvertently enable irresponsible behavior instead of fostering real change. Words mean things. We can’t communicate effectively unless we use words correctly. To do that, we have to know what the words actually mean. Acting-up is not acting-out.
http://www.manipulative-people.com/acting-out-top-5-misused-...




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If the idea is 'act up', then what we don't want to do is encourage this behavior.
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do not fuel/aggravate the/your child's activity levels

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The right fuel helps kids perform at their best. By eating healthy, your child will ... Your child's activity levels influence the amount of food needed. ...
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Activity Level and Hyperactivity in Twins
by L Willerman - 1973 - Cited by 119 - Related articles
Activity Level and Hyperactivity in Twins. Lee Willerman. University of Texas at Austin. WILLERMAN, LEE. Activity Level and Hyperactivity in Twins. CHILD ...
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Parental management of inappropriate hyperactivity in a young ...
by F Henry - 1975
THE HYPERACTIVE child has been described in the experimental literature and by ... a behavioral assessment of activity level placed the child's activity ...
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Activity level patterns in the hyperactive ritalin responder and ...
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