Without work, without adult responsibilities, without having to make big decisions; Children need care, protection, security, affection, containment, orientation, fun, stability… Just dedicate themselves to enjoying their childhood. Why? We will tell you.
LET THE CHILDREN PLAY
Childhood is the period in which we develop the physical, intellectual, affective supports that will allow us to function as independent beings, no longer with the containment of a mother and father, but as self-sufficient people.
For this reason, it is just the stage in which we need to acquire all the possible resources that help us achieve this destiny: to become healthy adults in all aspects. It is a decisive moment.
Think when you hear someone say “I lived a difficult childhood”, what that person is like, it is hard for them to express their emotions, or not. Now think of that person who with a smile says “I enjoyed and played a lot as a child”, probably now as an adult he is someone with greater emotional stability.
It is that during childhood is when our greatest growth occurs, not only at the skeletal or muscular level, thanks to the nutrition that dad and mom provide us, it is when we learn to generate our affective and social ties, also where we build ourselves (our personality and character) through all the experiences we live: a child who had to work to solve family deficiencies is not the same, a child who lived in an orphanage, a child who enjoyed the family bosom and the warmth of a home, the love of their parents and all the fun and learning of the game.
In this sense, as parents and as a society, we need and must ensure that we protect children; that each child lives it healthy, surrounded by love, experiences that enrich its essence, experiences that help it to have the best of developments and enhance each of its abilities and talents.
Teacher Osho said about childhood: «If a child is able to enjoy his childhood, he will be able to enjoy his youth and adulthood, and finally he will be able to enjoy his death. It all starts at the beginning » .
Like mom and dad you have an important task: to train an adult much better than you are yourself. You may not be able to help every child in the world, but you can do a lot with your child, your child. We invite you to help him, how?
- Let him just enjoy, say no to the bunch of after-school activities!
- Help him develop his talents, it is important, but do not want to saturate him with obligations.
- Give him and respect his playing time, and you play with him.
- It stimulates your imagination and creativity.
- Know it thoroughly, talk a lot with your child.
- Don’t control or overprotect it; respect its authenticity.
- Take him to new places, give him experiences that enrich his intellect but also his heart.
- Be affectionate with him; Give him emotional security, that he knows that you are for him unconditionally.