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How can you help your children to be happy?
We dream of educating our children in the best possible way, to make them balanced and independent and to give them all the keys to flourish in their future life. To help them grow up and become happy adults themselves, it’s up to you, parents, to educate them as much as to love them.
Set limits for children to help them develop
If the child needs to be reassured and encouraged, he still needs to face many limits. Accepting frustration is an essential step for him. With the use of “no” from an early age, the child learns the reality of life and integrates the basics of social rhythms, sharing, relationships with other children but also with adults and becomes aware of his. place within the family.
Parents must therefore become guarantors of reality, and keep their place as adults and not as accomplices with the child. While taking into account the character of the child, it is their duty to push him in a path which corresponds to him while inculcating in him values indispensable to life in community.
The importance of family life for the happiness of children
Not sacrificing your marriage by offering too much room for the child is also essential. For him to be happy, his parental model must be too. It is therefore important for the couple to allow time for two and not to let the children impose their rhythm at home. The family pattern: adults versus children must be clear and respected.
But it does not stop there. To allow him to flourish and therefore to be happy, the child needs to share moments of joy with those close to him. Through outings, games or moments of complicity with his parents, he creates anchors to which he can then unconsciously hang on. It is the same with meals. By taking part in the family dinner, the child creates benchmarks and offers himself the privileged moments of dialogue necessary for his emotional balance.
Learn to understand your child’s emotions to make them happy
Feelings and feelings are emotional storms for adults and even more so for children. But unlike his parents, the little one does not know how to take a step back from his own emotions. It is therefore your role to help him understand and master them. By taking the time to communicate and reassure them, you allow them to tame them and get to know each other better. With simple questions like “are you sad or angry?” “,” Do you know why, or what triggered your reaction? », The child learns to think about his own feelings and then to manage them on a daily basis.
Now he understands and recognizes his emotions and adapts to his environment. In short, it opens up to the world around it. His impulses are better controlled, his frustration is tolerated and the child feels better.
Act calmly and reassure your child to help them be happy
With enormous upheavals in his body and in his head, the child, especially if he is very young, is particularly sensitive to the tone which you use and the stress which you can communicate to him. Counterproductive, the fact of raising your voice to defuse a difficult situation, only aggravates it and generates in the child an unnecessary and harmful anguish which will last a long time in his unconscious. To do the best you can in the event of a temper tantrum, stay calm and be firm in your attitude while explaining why you are not going to give in to them. The limits can be set gently and allow the child to integrate essential bases for his future happiness.
If he is afraid, and even if the cause of his anxiety seems silly to you, don’t scold him and take it seriously. You need to be benevolent to allow him to set up his emotional and rational neural circuit in the best possible way.
The child, and even more so, the little one, is a real sponge to the different feelings he feels but also to those of his parents. To help him master them and integrate into his new environment, he needs serene and confident parents who will teach him to become a fulfilled and balanced adult.