An old folk saying goes that fear comes into the house along with children.. Many parents will surely confirm this. I too almost let myself be "infected and enthralled" by it. There really is nothing worse than fear, which is like a weed, growing every day, later spreading to your children as well, and they will battle this fear for their whole lives.. just as we battle the one our parents sowed in us. Exactly in the spirit of the quote by Mark Twain:
"I have experienced a great many troubles, but most of them never happened!"
Whenever I go to the playground or anywhere among children, I clutch my head listening to commands and prohibitions like "Don't go there, you'll get dirty. Don't run, you'll fall! Don't touch the doggy, it will bite you. Don't eat so greedily, you'll choke!"... and we could go on like this endlessly. Some mums go so far that, out of fear of "missing" something, they don't leave their children alone for a second and are literally "on their heels" everywhere. In the play corner they play with them, when the child goes to another child they immediately jump in, at children's theatre shows they sit down among the children, they are simply always and everywhere. Unfortunately, for some children the children's world is an unattainable luxury.
Dear mums, try to leave your children in THEIR world, let them run, jump, fall, learn, discover and develop on their own. There is nothing like your own experience. Don't play the policeman, but be a guide through your children's lives and only protect them from real dangers, which are certainly not lurking for them in play corners or among other children. After all, the most beautiful childhood is with friends, in dirty tracksuit bottoms and with scraped knees..
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