Children's emotions are also very important - Personal experience

Hello dear friends I hope you are very well, today I want to talk about a very important topic, but sometimes it is not given due importance, and it is when it comes to emotions in children. Today many adults have traumas and mental disorders, due to the treatment given to their emotions in their childhood, it used to be believed that a small child had the ability to forget, when someone was sad the parent simply thought that he would forget after a while.

Bad news! It is not so, even if in the mind does not remember it, there will be a permanent damage in the child that will affect him in his adult life, if he was abandoned in his childhood, an adult could spend his life being afraid of being abandoned and without knowing or understanding why, childhood is the most beautiful stage, but it is also important because in it, we experience many emotions, and if they are not treated correctly and even healed, they can have repercussions in adult life.

When we are children, it is true that we do not understand many things, but feeling them is different, emotions are inevitable, no matter how old you are, and that is why the best thing a parent or representative can do is to teach their child that what they feel is important, but they must also teach them how to deal with it, with love and patience.

And what happens when we are the ones who unintentionally cause negative emotions in our children? The first thing we can do is apologize, so we will show him that what he feels is important, and also teach him what to do when he hurts someone unintentionally.

Some time ago I told you that I have a niece named Abigail, she is currently 10 years old, unfortunately we live far away from each other, that causes me a lot of sadness, I mistakenly said to myself when she left "she is fine, she is not affected by having left because she is with her parents". Maybe it was my way of staying calm and not worrying too much about her, but the reality is that these changes and absences have hurt her as much as me, and although when she left, I didn't understand it very well, I felt it very much, because sometimes she wrote me that she wanted to do specific things that we did together, she felt sad, because she was used to always being with her parents.

Although time has passed, we talk constantly by whatsapp and when the Internet allows it we make video calls, she still tells me that she misses me and remembers things we did, and also how she felt. Yesterday for example we talked, and she told me that she was sad and that she wanted to come here, at least to visit us, that broke my heart, because I think of everything that happened and also how much it affected her and still affects her.

Ignoring children's emotions, can make them grow insecure, they can feel that we do not care about them, and can even make them feel alone, obviously none of them want that, that is why we must take care of them and listen to what they feel, what they want to say and also teach them to identify what they are feeling, today we know many things that we did not know before, so we have tools to take care of our children's mind and feelings.

Although it is difficult to try to prevent them from feeling sad about situations they went through, even from a distance we can let them know and feel that we love them and that we care about them, mainly by being part of their life, and being there to support them in every step they take. Let's never forget that they feel the same way we do. Thank you very much for coming this far, I hope you liked it, see you soon, we will read each other next time.