A CHILD NEED OF ACCEPTANCE
By Deo Britos
cepted? Acknowledge your child as unique, respecting their individuality. Express your love for your child, let the child know that you love and really enjoy it. Accept your child's friends, the home should be a place where she can freely bring their friends and where they like to go. Let him know you appreciate his friends. Leave to demand perfection from their children. When we recognize that we are not perfect we make mistakes and show sincerity to the children. Treat your child as a person of worth Use words like: excuse rather than the get out of my may!. Please, instead of get it to me, Thank you instead of silence implied that he did nothing more than his duty. The child does not feel accepted by their parents becomes vulnerable to destructive pressure group. She struggles for acceptance by others. The way the child is accepted in the first years of life determines in part the esteem of herself and others when it reaches adulthood. If the home environment includes a happy and joyful acceptance of the child, she feels valued and strong. (Research book: The seven basic needs of the child.
Only when the child feels accepted by parents he will feel accepted by others and by God , because children develop problems when they experience a lack of acceptance; The critical constants cause the child to create feelings of rejection, failure and inadequacy. Compare the child with another conveys a lack of acceptance. Children are not all the same and compare them is a great injustice. The continuous comparison creates feelings of inferiority. Overprotection of a child in general contributes to their sense of non-acceptance. How many times you say, "Son I do not want you to enter the water until you learn to swim" How, then will he learn? The lack of protection is less dangerous than over protection. If you wait too long the child can create feelings of non-acceptance. If you impose to the child to reach a certain level of behavior, that can make him feel inadequate. This does not always mean yielding to the whims of the child. The unacceptable behavior needs limits. Acceptance means to respect the feelJohn M.Drescher, Publisher Christian ings and personality of the child. world.) What to show your child that he is ac-