Prioritize affections and teaching values ​​in homage to children | Cuyo’s diary

2023-08-19 11:00:01

Although Children’s Day has always been characterized as a very special event, in which adults honor children with gifts and recreational events that amaze and entertain them; The time has come to establish that the best gift that can be given to them, in addition to a toy or other expensive gifts, is the necessary amount of affection and teaching values ​​that will last throughout their lives.

There are parents who believe that by having been able to buy their children a valuable gift on this day, they are fully fulfilling their role as parents, when in reality the important thing is that this gift is loaded with affection and contributes to the integral formation of the child. promoting essential values ​​necessary for its future projection.

Erik Erikson, a leading researcher of the developmental stages of infancy and childhood, analyzed the psychosocial particularities that children face and that are the basis for the gradual development of their identity in later stages. He maintained that the experience of the child having significant relationships with family close people would allow him, then, to firmly face the conflicts that would arise throughout life, with the sole purpose of living it with the greatest possible happiness. . In this way, the affections that the child perceives in his first years of life, from his intimate environment, father, mother and other relatives or acquaintances, are essential to guarantee full development, something that goes beyond the material issue. and that it represents the ideal framework that adults are responsible for offering.

In difficult times like the ones we are experiencing at the country level, with a worrisome socioeconomic panorama, all efforts aimed at providing happiness to children must go through the level of affection, feelings and the teaching that can be transmitted to the children. .

Currently, a moment of healthy recreation is worth more, with some other gesture as a necessary treat, than worrying about children having the latest technology, expensive clothing or sophisticated toys, which after a while become obsolete and forgotten. The affectionate kiss with which the gift is given; the endless embrace with which a child melts with her mother or father; or accompanying that child to a park or a square, are gestures that leave their indelible mark on minors, helping them to forge their personality for their lives as adults.

We must ensure that children continue to be the only privileged ones, and the center of our attention, in the task of providing them with the best teaching of what life is, from a more human point of view, in order to try to recover the meaning of life in its maximum expression.