A healthy child is restless, noisy, spontaneous and emotional
A healthy child loves to play, make noise and touch things. He doesn’t know how to be patient and cries when he gets frustrated.
As parents, we try to mold our children’s character so that they are patient, calm, assertive and caring. That is our mission. But the nature of children is opposite, they are restless, want to touch everything out of curiosity, cry and lose their temper easily. In all of this there are many behaviors to correct throughout their growth, but there are also very clear signs that you have a healthy child in your care.
We are breeding with excesses: too much information, too many material things, too many options, too much speed. The best way to raise a child is to go back to simplicity. I’m sure your parents made a lot of mistakes with you, but they also did a lot of things right. Part of the good thing about parents from past generations is that they kept it simple. Children were told what they needed to know, they were asked for less knowledge, they were given priority over time to play, and finally they were treated like children.
Our children today are exposed to an awesome media machine. Now more than ever children want to be adults as soon as possible and they are given a lot of information as if they were already adults. There is no respect for childhood.
Children are also required to behave with a “maturity” that is not typical of their age. Anti-childhood campaigns have been created on social networks that are truly reprehensible. Some restaurants put up signs that they do not accept children, others simply post on social networks that parents do not take their children on flights, walks, etc. because they are “annoying”. These anti-child campaigns want to isolate the little ones from society because of all they represent: noise, joy, emotions, mischief. Those who think this way forget that they were once children, or simply very unhappy children.
Play and pranks are the essence of childhood
If your child isn’t dirty enough to go to the bathtub, it’s because he hasn’t played enough. If he hasn’t gone from crying to laughing to talking to being quiet in a day, he may not be developing all his emotions. And if your child doesn’t play pranks on you, but is always “good,” you may need to check to see if something is wrong.
A healthy child commits mischief and earns his punishments. A healthy child is resourceful and spontaneous and will invent ways to get into trouble. In any case, your job as a parent is to be there to guide him, correct the bad and promote the good.
Allow your child to live a full and happy childhood with lots of noise, colours and mischief. Don’t be too severe or too permissive, keep it simple, don’t surround it with things, information or demand too much of it. Let him be simply a child.