Tag: parents

  • Children are fully aware of the presence of angels

    Children and angels are intimately connected with each other, babies are fully aware of the presence of angels. In fact, if you look closely at them, you will notice how they scrutinize their parents and how they focus on watching the lights dance around them. Sometimes babies laugh for no apparent reason, I like to think that what makes them laugh are their angels who accompany them to earth and play with them.

    Children and angels often play together, in fact, the imaginary friends with whom many children play and talk, are nothing but angels. Babies are truly spiritual teachers because they have pure hearts and souls and are open to new experiences. This allows them to easily get in touch with the angels, Joan of Arc and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes is examples.

    We parents have a specific obligation towards children, that of not being skeptical of their stories. It can also be useful to talk about angels and to do this you can use various methods such as.

    • Read with them a book about angels, dwell on the images that are there and ask them what they think about angels, letting them express themselves freely
    • Draw pictures of angels with the children and talk about heavenly messengers and the stories they tell of angels and humans
    • Watch a broadcast or movie about angels and ask them how they felt
    • Listen to a song about angels, analyze the words with them or represent the lyrics of the song with a drawing.

    It is very important to be open to listening and express your feelings and ideas without hesitation, so that can also express their opinions, feeling free to ask questions.

    Talk to the children about Michael the Archangel

    Archangel Michael can help children not to be afraid so it is useful to explain to the little ones the greatness and power of this magnificent archangel. You can talk about the archangel Michael by showing the children a picture of him, and explain to them that to get help from him, they just need to say or think his name, draw a picture of him, or look at a picture of him.

    Archangel Michael has unlimited power and can help all the children of the world. Usually when children invoke the archangel Michael they cease to be afraid, therefore, do not hesitate to tell your children about Michael, perhaps appealing to your religious traditions. Archangel Michael will be very happy to help all the children who ask for his intervention.

  • The instinct of children is naturally uncontrolled and wild

    The instinct of children is naturally uncontrolled and wild. It must therefore be contained, be delimited. It must not be trampled on, repressed, or humiliated, but neither should it be left to itself. It needs a limit, a boundary to respect, it needs to be protected even by itself and thus becomes truly free.

    In the beginning, it is the parents who set limits because children do not yet have the ability to decide independently. However, they can begin to explain to him the reason for that limit.

    Explaining, however, implies that the parent is firm and stable and does not let the child cross the line. In fact, children do not support borders by their nature and do everything to challenge or blackmail those who impose them on them. Parents, however, must ensure that this does not happen because overcoming the limit means for the child to remain instinctive in the wild. And losing trust and credibility in the paternal and guiding role of parents.

    The instinct of children must be contained

    If this does not happen, it will also express itself in the following years with aggressive, impetuous, uncontrolled attitudes, increasingly difficult to control. Over time, the child must be taught to choose how to set limits and boundaries for himself. He can choose his times and her ways, but the behavior must be ordered according to a purpose.

    The child must also know the why and the purpose of that habit he is acquiring, she must know what he leads to and what does not follow him entail. Washing, dressing alone, going to school, and doing homework must make sense to him. Things with meaning take on the soul and become vital for oneself and for others.

    Educating to choices, habits, and customs thus become personal and at the same time social. They help the child to feel good about himself and others. And particularly to feel integrated and appropriate to the social context in which he will live.

    To teach your children to give themselves boundaries, it is important that boundaries are also present in parents because children do not only look at what is said or done but mainly at what one is.

    So a parent who still suffers from a lack of understanding of the instinctive needs of his childhood and is still angry at overly strict parents tends to react automatically in the face of imposed limits. Reacting to the limit is like defending oneself from unjust and authoritarian repression.

    This is why he tends to defend himself and also his son from the rules and unconsciously colludes, that is, he takes sides and allies himself with the instinct of the son and with his refusal to be limited.

    In this way, the child feels authorized in his impulses without limit, without order without purpose. He feels protected by those who matter most to him and risks maintaining behaviors that lead to more and more social maladjustment, up to rejection and isolation