Contrary to popular opinion, children leave not only from disadvantaged families. The family apparently can be quite respectable, and even provided. And then often the occasion to leave home becomes a conflict, based on the lack of understanding with his parents.
In general, leaving teenagers of 10-17 years. Traditionally, adolescence is considered to be a difficult period, when a teenager, despite the outward bravado, rudeness and aggression, in fact extremely vulnerable and defenseless.
And he has never needed our understanding of, and its absence causes immense pain and suffering and leads to serious complications in the interaction between us.
Statistics ...
Fifteen or twenty years ago it was thought that children under 7 years do not go out of the house, and the main reasons for leaving home 10-13-year-olds are belonging to socially disadvantaged families, the shame of alcoholic parents or ignorance and neglect by parents of children in difficulties School (BN Diamonds, 1985).
In recent years, the street children are preschool age, children make the shoots of very wealthy families, whole communities homeless people were children and adolescents. Currently, according to the Research Institute of the Ministry of Interior in Moscow alone there are at least 28.300 street children, of which 85% voluntarily left the house, 5-6% - children's homes and boarding schools.
It is important to know that for the formation of self-reliance for the development of the "I", subsequently achieving personal maturity, the opportunity to take responsibility for their future life, our children need to "break away from the family."
And the result of such an office should not be a gap of a teenager with his family, and the establishment of new relations based not on coercion, but on partnership.
Failure to understand the reasons for the changes taking place with children, leads to our commitment to maintain firm control and authority over them, or "turn back their development."
We are beginning to reject the new qualities of a teenager and wish to return old children: obedience, tenderness, etc. And then leaving home becomes the only opportunity for them to express their protest.
Quite often the reason for our strong alarm when a sudden change in the behavior of adolescents is the threat of destruction of the idea of himself as a good parent. And the presence of both a parent satisfaction enhances self-esteem of man, otherwise decreases.
Therefore, we will not adequately respond to the behavior of a teenager just to maintain a positive self-image. We do not make mistakes because they do not love their children, but because they do not always know how best to proceed and are often not aware of their own motives.
If our love existed only on the animal level, then we would not harm their children would do purely instinctively, as nature has made us.
But the human relationship to another level - selfish. In all human problems lies selfishness. And when our relations with children are starting to include human qualities, egoistic properties influence, dominate, coerce - then our love is destructive, we often raping children his authority over them, do not give them the freedom to develop.
While the ancient law of education says: "Educate the child according to his ways," ie, in accordance with his nature, his character, inclinations.
Love on the human level is what I feel, leaving themselves without their needs, not their feelings, needs and feelings of the other, and then I is a tool for filling the other.
I myself do not take into account, but only what is good for him. When the child begins to grow, our love for him is to purchase a different form than the one which he needed as a child.
If a small child requires primarily good care, security in the world, control, now love - to adopt and support it as a person, independent and individual, able to bear responsibility for their lives.
It's love-care in relation to the unique energy that animates man. This is love embodied in other decision-making abilities.
Three steps that can be taken in this direction are:
1. Notice any manifestation of their habit to make decisions for the child and begin to get rid of it. Reject the desire to push, send it to what we want in this case.
Instead, ask yourself, "What can I do in this situation to help my child be more responsible and able to make their own decisions? "
2. Learn to enjoy the decision-making child. We can do it if aware that this is a living, pulsing particle of nature itself, and we have a precious but fleeting opportunity to see how it develops.
Even when we see that the child goes towards the unpleasant and painful effects, the best thing you can do in a similar situation - just to express their concerns, and then allow these effects occur. "There is no wiser than experienced."
3. Change some of our thoughts and beliefs about children. This step is extremely important. Because between our beliefs and our actions are closely interrelated. Without realizing it, we constantly conduct ourselves so as to confirm the validity of the actions of their own inner convictions.
If we are convinced that our child was initially endowed with positive qualities, it is able to make the right decisions and to govern their own lives, we effortlessly will support him in this.
What the child really needs to be a teenager - is help, assistance and promotion of the installation to make their own decisions. Giving the child the love of this kind - the most important thing we can do for him.
Then our love will be creative and children do not need to leave home.
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