A Short Guide for Healthy Parenting
Parenting is one of the most
significant and sometimes underrated aspect of a human life. Many of us feel
the challenge of supporting the children to be the successful version of
themselves. When all of us want our children to be raised as a ‘happy and healthy
child’, we are not sure how to do it. We want our children to be physically
healthy; But we do not see their Mental Health needs and challenges due to
various reasons like unawareness and societal stigma.
Children do experience varied emotions from their experiences, which is
significant in their healthy upbringing. These experiences help the children to
make their life a successful one; because he or she could easily come in terms
with life and realize that, sweet and sour is equally proportionate in it.
Mental health of the child is as important as physical health, because it
determines how a child behaves and acts throughout the journey of their life.
Mental fitness includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It
helps establish how we cope with stress and adversity, handle success and
failure, connect to others, and make choices. Right from childhood through
adolescence and throughout adulthood, mental health is crucial.
There are multiple ways by which we can help our kids into becoming
mentally healthy individuals:
- Help
the children to be themselves – The most repeated advice
in the modern times, nevertheless a relevant one. It is imperative to
allow the children to be their best version. They need to be allowed and
encouraged to express themselves, without being pushy. Let them enjoy
- Be a
role model – Parents are the best role models a child
could ever have. Make sure that you are one. Please introspect yourself
that how do you deal with win or loss in your life, how do you behave or
respond to your child’s achievement and failures?
- Everyone
is special – Make your child realize every human being in
this world is unique and special in their own way. Avoid comparing your
child with other children, just steer away from it.
- Help
them to be inspired – Teach your child to
appreciate the goodness in others. Talk with them to know their perception
about people and their surroundings. Help them to be inspired.
- Encourage
physical activity – It is important to stay
both physically and mentally fit to be healthy. Encourage your child to
indulge in physical activities, if possible, join them
- Pursuing
hobbies – A hobby is of vital importance to make a
person mentally and emotionally strong. Hobbies are not just a source of
happiness, but also an outlet to confront absurd feelings and emotions.
Support your child to find and develop their passion
- Make
them practice Self-awareness and Self-love –
Self-awareness and self-love are two important aspects which every parent
should encourage their children to practice. Children should be able to
release there are many things they cannot change and should accept as it
is like. Let them realize forgiving give them more peace than the
forgiven, while it is imperative to stand up for what is right
- Respect
their individuality – Even though, parents
consider children as their own extension, it is important to accept that
they are individuals with a separate character and mindset. We can act as
their facilitator and guide, but they should be the one who control their
life. It is always important to acknowledge a child’s individuality for a
healthy parent – child relationship.
For Your Amigos Foundation- Authored by, Arun A.G on 08th January 2020
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