Escapades of your six-year old: Some Helpful Hints
Tags: Anger, Anger Management, Child, Emotion, Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Health, Kids, Kids and Teens, Parent, Parenting, Relationships, School Time
Raising your child is any time a tough test. As your child grows up through several phases, as a parent you need to apply different tricks of the trade.
If your little fellow is too exploring that is because this world puzzles him non-stop. Every moment he experiences a ravenous urge to learn newer things. When he goes exploring, teaching him discretion is a difficult task.
Now, he is 6. He can differentiate between intentional behaviors and accidental happenings. In the course of his explorations often things that happen are just accidents. You need to remember that he is too innocent to do willful wrongs.
Often a glass breaks, your favorite vase gets shattered, the couch cover gets torn, the car in the portico gets a dent, and a pin gets stuck in your mixer-grinder, and in all these situations your boy of six is involved. How do you react?
You have by now told the kid many times not to do things that create such problems, but to no avail. So, you are now impulsively upset and want to punish the cute little gentleman to teach him his lessons. Now, just take a minute longer and think.
Kids of your son’s age are venturesome. They cannot think of the consequences of their actions. Highly energetic and curious, their focus is only on doing what their momentary whims dictate. If you understand this, it is easy for you to manage him.
When these accidents happen, keep your cool. Look at your kid. He knows he is the reason for the situation. Wear a reassuring face. Tell him it is okay this time; and that next time he will be more careful. When you say this, he becomes more open to what you advice. Tell him how important it is to think before he acts. Motivate him to clean up or fix the mess. Join him in the job. That leaves a huge impression in him about your fairness.
At times he throws tantrums. He is entitled to his emotions too. So when he gets upset, angry, tired or feels weak, he tends to irritate you. He becomes insistent or stubborn. That is an effective way for him to communicate with you. Be sensitive. Gently let him know it is okay for him to be angry but it is not necessary that he expresses it in certain ways. Get friendly with him. Divert his attention. Make him feel better. Gradually, help him manage his anger.
Managing your kid will be a lot of fun if you manage to find as much personal time with him as possible. When he finds you to be his big strength, he will be ever willing to look up and listen to you.
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