Keys to recognize possible problems in children
Every father wants to help his son. Seeing that the little ones have problems is not a good taste dish for any parent, however, to be able to support the little ones and not so small you have to pay attention. Many times children hide what alters their day to day because of shame and fear of consequences.
Faced with this silence, parents touch sharpen your senses and pay attention to what happens to their children. From the Understood Foundation They give several tips to be able to observe the children, without making them feel watched and in this way recognize possible problems in order to solve them or talk about them in order to be able to provide total support in this situation.
Attention, never control
The first step that parents must understand is that their work in this sense is to pay attention to what happens to their children. They should never control what happens to children and interfere with their day to day. Here are some tips to be able to observe without intruding ahead of time:
- Choose a behavior. Before you start to observe, you have to decide what you want to focus your attention on. Bad mood? Aggressive behavior?
- Take note in a medium that allows review and consultation to verify the information of the different days.
- Observe in all possible ways. Not only in the moment in which the behavior appears, also in the moments before and after to see possible triggers or consequences.
- Buy the evolution over time. Today's attitude may be different from tomorrow's, what has changed? Why?
- Try to help. With the information gathered, parents can try to help their children. You can also write down if the support you have given has had any effect.
- Ask for help if a serious problem is recognized. If the parents discover that a serious problem is hidden behind a behavior such as a school bullying case, it should be brought to the attention of the relevant authorities.
Encourage communication
To discover problems with children, not only have to observe, you also have to know how to communicate with them. These are some tips that are given from the American Academy of Pediatrics:
- Be available. Parents must always be available for their children and make gaps in their agendas to listen to their problems.
- Know how to listen It is not the same to hear as to listen, when the children speak, we must pay as much attention as possible to what they say.
- Show empathy. You have to tune your own feelings with those of the children and let them know that their situation is understood. As small as it may seem a problem, we should not pay attention and think that they are things of children.
- Keep calm. During eavesdropping it is possible to learn something that you do not like, but you have to be calm and willing to help, not get angry.
Damián Montero
