Verbal violence as a common form of violence is also present in the preschool period. Preschool children, who are still developing their personality and learning the basics of life, encounter verbal violence in various areas: in the family, in educational institutions, in the cartoons and fairy tales, they watch and listen to. On television, in libraries or shops there are contents, which are intended for them. These contents, however, include verbally abusive parts, During watching and listening, they think about it and internalize certain words, relationships, communication. Preschool children are already capable of moral judgment, so even when it comes to a verbally violent part, they think about: what they saw, the various consequences, the characteristics of the characters and their own reactions to it. In the thesis, I focused on the child and verbal violence in educational institutions, the family, and I paid more attention to verbal violence in cartoons and fairy tales, where I explored the child's perception of verbal violence, consequences, characters and their characteristics, as well as the child's reflection on his own reactions to presented verbal violence. The aims of the thesis were to determine the possible connection between watching/listening to verbal violence in popular cartoons/fairy tales and the behavior and thinking of a preschool child, and also to determine to what extent preschool children are aware of the actions and consequences of verbal violence between characters in popular and famous cartoons and fairy tales. I used a theoretical analytical approach and an analytical, descriptive method. I reviewed foreign and domestic professional literature. In the research participated eight preschool children, aged four to six. Four of the participants attends the Public Kindergarten Idrija, Unit Spodnja Idrija, and the rest are in active care Direndaj in Škofja Loka. The results were obtained through four semi-structured interviews. I found that preschool children perceive verbal violence and recognize it as bad behavior. They realize that insulting, mocking, humiliating and shouting at others is inappropriate because the person being attacked is suffering. The results show that children recognize the consequences of verbal violence, which mainly relate to the emotional distress of the attacked character. They assumed that the attacked character was experiencing unpleasant emotions (sadness, anger, shame, guilt, rejection, stress, pain). I found that when determining bad and good characters, they act according to their characteristics, which refer to their appropriate (help, kindness, cooperation) and inappropriate behavior (causing violence). The results show that preschool children would react to seen verbal violence, but in different ways
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