Let us teach our children to be resilient and learn to accept problems and find appropriate solutions to them.
Every Crisis Empowers us and makes us stronger--provided we view the crisis as an opportunity!
Each one of us has been affected by the monetary ban imposed by the Government, in some way or the other. Adults have shown different reactions to this situation enforced on them. Some have shown an altruistic attitude ,have accepted the situation and are ready to bear the suffering which comes their way with it, with a smile, because they feel that it is all for the benefit of the Nation. Some are not so compromising and feel anxious and worried with banking and withdrawal problems which come automatically with the ban. Some are worried and angry! Why should they suffer the agony of running from bank to bank having to deposit their hard earned money and wait in long queues for getting back the new currency they ask? Some are very stressed with the unaccounted money they have--for obvious reasons! The problem is the same for all but everyone has a different way of responding to it.
On Children’s Day this year, let us all pledge to teach our children how to cope up with the unexpected problems ,like the one mentioned above, which may come their way.
Let us teach them how to become more resilient and strong. We need to remember that our children are all the time watching us and our reactions to various situations. If they see us getting stressed when faced with a sudden catastrophe, they will react to similar situations in the same way in future. However, if they see us accepting problems with an attitude of gratitude, and if they learn from us that every problem has a solution and problems come disguised to make us stronger , our children too will learn to cope adaptively with the problems that come their way. They will learn (from us), how to keep stress at bay!
Parents and teachers should be good role models to the children and make them understand, by their behaviour and attitude to the problems which confront them ,that these problems are actually challenges or opportunities which have come to test their resilience and teach them how to respond without getting stressed. We have to teach our children how to control their reactions to the problems. We have to explain to them how to accept problems without getting perturbed, analyse the solutions ,choose the most appropriate solution to the problem, and move on. At the same time it has to be explained to them that non-acceptance of situations and negative thoughts , build-up stress in the mind which is toxic and clouds our decision making power and makes us anxious ,depressed or angry. We have to teach our children how to think positive and consequently be positive and happy.
Let us make this Children’s Day special for our children—let us model to them via our behaviour how they should view problems with an attitude of gratitude and learn to find solutions to the problems that confront them in life .Let us teach them how to cope adaptively with the challenges in life ,be in high self-esteem.be stress free, resilient and confident. This is the best gift we can give to our children—the art of living a stress free ,happy life.
Dr.Sona Kaushal Gupta
Neuro-psychologist Dehra-Dun
Director PARI FOUNDATION
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