Amal Muhammad Amin
Children today live in a world that is characterized by a speed of change and the large number of challenges, as they face psychological pressure resulting from the rapid rhythm of life .. Therefore, their preparation for dealing with these challenges has become a basic responsibility that rests with the family, school and society.
Preparing children to a volatile world requires a balance between their psychological support and their teaching life skills. The ability to deal with anxiety and pressure on the one hand, and accept the difference on the other hand, are the key to preparing a generation capable of living in peace in a multiple and variable world.
Preparing children to deal with pressure and anxiety
1. Developing awareness of feelings:
The first step to help children deal with pressure is to help them get to know their feelings. When the child can name what he feels, he is able to better control it. People can use simple questions such as: “What do you feel now?” Or “Do you feel angry or sad?”
2. Training them in relaxation skills:
Teaching children deep breathing techniques or performing simple physical activities helps reduce the level of stress. Even drawing or writing can be a way to empty negative feelings.
3. Organizing the daily routine:
Fixed routine and adequate sleep provides the child with a sense of safety, and reduce the effects of anxiety caused by sudden changes.
4. Positive example:
Children learn by noticing adult reactions. If the parents deal with difficult situations calmly and balanced, they give their children a practical model to deal with pressure.
5. Request for help when needed:
In the event that anxiety clearly affects the child’s daily life, you should not hesitate to consult psychologists to provide the necessary support.
Create children to deal with the difference
1. Planting the value of sympathy:
Teaching children to imagine the feelings of others, helps them understand that everyone has their own conditions and experience. Stories can be an excellent way to instill this value.
2. Open and sincere dialogue:
There should be a continuous dialogue on diversity and difference issues, and that the child learns that the contrast in beliefs and customs is a natural matter that enriches society.
3. Exposing them to various experiences:
Children’s participation in group activities with people of different backgrounds and cultures enhances tolerance, and reduces pre -judges.
4. Correct concepts:
When hearing any negative phrases or ready judgments on others, it is important to clarify them to the child in a simplified language instead of reprimanding.
5. Promote self -confidence.
The child who is self -confident is less likely to fear the difference, and is more willing to accept and coexist with him.
Practical part: proposed activities and exercises
1.
I ask the child to draw faces that express different feelings “joy – sadness – anger – fear.”
Every evening, he chooses a face -like face and tells the reason.
This habit helps him to express himself instead of suppressing tension.
2. Breathing exercise with counting
Sit with the child and ask him to put his hand on his stomach.
I prepare with you: 4 -enemy inhale – Self -imprisonment 4 – Zafir 4.
Repeat it 3 times before bed or when anxiety.
3.
I dedicate a small box, and every day the child writes something that God thanked him or something that made him happy.
Reading these weekends enhances positive feelings.
4.
Choose with the child the topic “Culture – customs – language”.
Watch together a short clip, or read a story about it.
Then they discussed: “What did we learn from this difference?”
The goal is to turn the difference into an opportunity to learn.
5. The roles exchange game
Make the child play the role of a person different from him “a child from another country or with a different capacity”, while others play the role of friends.
This exercise implants sympathy and strengthens communication skills.
