Children of each generation have to respond to the challenges of the future and among our children will be the leaders of tomorrow with the capacity to sacrifice, consistent and autonomous to make decisions and self-sufficient. Recently we talked in Peques and More about what we need to encourage in our children self-control or self-esteem although we could still broaden this idea by marking behaviors to attitudes we have with our children and that can divert us from the objective or mission that awaits them.
The fathers / mothers, although the environment also plays a fundamental role, we are the main blockers and inhibitors In order to achieve autonomy in our children, that is why overprotection, which is greatly overrated in my opinion, has to be moderated to ensure that the children identify and respond to the problems they face. For example, learning to defend oneself in school in front of their classmates, doing their homework autonomously, organizing their time and understanding the consequences of an action and a decision.
As we mentioned, self-esteem has become a familiar word used by teachers, parents and therapists and that the challenge was to increase self-esteem in children, assuming that this would have positive results in them. However, kids have to learn to understand what a mistake is, a defeat and respond to the disappointment caused. I mean, the children they have to fall and learn to get up. That is why we also have to reflect on offering and delivering rewards for every well done thing that the little one does because what we can achieve is that the action has the sole objective of obtaining the prize rather than performing an action with greater scope, route and duration in the weather.
Parents many times when we go to the movies to see a Child's movie We are delighted with what we have seen on the screen and we think that this is what we have to do and transmit: values, effort, sacrifice, passion, emotion. However, we stayed halfway and we did not become a good example by carrying out practices that our children also do theirs.
These questions, about which I read and try to adapt and present here expanding with my experience, seem to be concepts and ideas that we turn to justify what is happening to us in Western civilization. And is that it's as if we had reached a level where it is difficult for us to move forward and one of the possible causes is that we have taken away many responsibilities from the little one and enjoy a lot of advantages and support since childhood. We will have to see how time allows us to explain what is happening and what is the future that awaits us.
