Posts Tagged ‘Mental Health’
How to help your child fight anxiety?
One of the most difficult to control emotion is anxiety. When something we do not like and can not accept the case, we care, we become anxious, can not sleep and developed many uncertainties that ultimately affect our body with digestive disorders and a great discouragement. Children also suffer from anxiety, for example, if a classmate’s annoying, if a teacher treats them sharply, if there are conflicts in the home, etc., Affecting their behavior and happiness unless they learn to deal with those emotions.
Teach a man to face
As parents tend to overprotect our children. If you are afraid of the darkness with the light left on all night, or if you are afraid of a hard test at school, let them not attending. But fear is not due so, because the next day or within a short time the same situation happen sooner or later have to face.
Therefore, it is best that you teach your child to confront situations and rewards when you do, so learn to deal with their anxiety decreases your concerns.
Teach what is anxiety
We see people stressed out, panic attacks, very emotional on all sides, and often do not think the degree of anxiety they must have to behave like that, or what you could achieve if they knew handle. Do not want our children to live their adult lives forward, so we can teach them to face life explaining what is anxiety and showing them a rating scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the maximum degree of nervousness.
Your child can tell you what level of anxiety when something is scary, so teach him that anxiety can be controlled by focusing on breathing or thinking about something else, what can be measured by the score often .
Reward it
Reward your child when you reach the self, which encouraged him to do it again. To see that it is able to overcome difficult situations and feel your support, (not as a victim but as an actor to overcome difficulties), you can go to develop better each time. Tell him he’s capable, by itself can overcome your fears and you can feel much safer.
Passing is the key
You must teach your child that is normal to feel fear and anxiety, we all do, but the question is to control situations and move forward, and not remain only in the sense of fear. Stay beside your child while he gets out of his fear, show that you are accompanying, but does not solve everything. So you’ll help a lot in his emotional education for the future.
If your child becomes anxious when you get away from him, do not stop reading this article , where we give you some tips to reduce separation anxiety .
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How to identify emotional problems in children?
Children also suffer address problems or situations that do not know face, generating emotional diseases are becoming more frequent and affecting their school performance and their way of life. As parents, it is important to understand the emotional distress they may suffer our children to detect early and help them overcome them correctly.
How can emotional disorders?
Emotional disorders can lead to serious behavioral disturbances in children, which can affect school performance, their relationship with their parents, their peers, their environment, including your mind to wander and play. The most common emotional problems in children are anxiety, depression, eating disorders, to learn and behave, which strongly affect the quality of their lives.
Causes of emotional distress
Many situations can not be nice for children, including his parents’ constant arguments, the authoritarianism of their elders, problems at school, separation from their parents, violence, abandonment and so on. But not only external factors can influence the inheritance and also has much to say, children are more prone to emotional disturbances than others.
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Techniques for playing with our young children
Play is a vital activity for children, helps them be independent and face different situations and to develop concentration and imagination, two elements essential to life and to learn during the school stages.
But the game is also a means by which we can approach our children. It is therefore very important that parents share this activity with enjoyment and dedication. Here are some techniques that encourage interaction with young children during the game.
Inventing the time
There is no doubt that daily life can be very hectic and modern parents have little time to spend with the family. However, it is absolutely necessary that these days manage to create spaces from 10 to 15 minutes at least, where there is minimal disruption to play with the children. Put aside all other activities, such as television or the Internet, and concentrate on having a good time playing with your children.
Involve children
First, ask your children what their favorite games. Let them choose those that are more to your liking. Many parents decide what to play, when and where without taking into account the views of their children. A child will always enjoy and learn more if he who selects his game and the place to do it. As a result, will focus better and have more appropriate behavior.
Catch up with children
It is convenient ready to play with the children. To do this we must ensure that we are very close to them, make eye contact and show that you are comfortable with them. Say, if the child is sitting on the floor, something very common, sit down with them.
Describe what makes the small
This technique is more complicated, but very important. While the child picks a game and begins to do, you must go describing the steps it performs with a positive tone. For example: “You took the blue ladrillito you’re putting on red.” Evita correct and direct the business and ask questions. Just copy what your child does.
Praise the child’s activity
Once you feel comfortable describing what you see, begins to use words of praise such as “What kid smarter than that ladrillito put blue on red.” It is advisable to be as close as possible, smile, make eye contact and give kisses, hugs, and any demonstration of affection.
Very sincerely praise your child as soon as possible when performing the appropriate action to encourage him to repeat the task. These statements give you security and confidence to move forward, which will be essential for the further development of self-esteem.
Once you practice these techniques to play with your kids, you’ll see that every day is the interaction between you and grow, rather than bold children, and courageous individuals, safe and cooperative during the rest of their lives.
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