As parents, we offer our children the best in every way to see them grow and develop happily.
Once again, as every year around this time and in the Western sphere, although it is also being transferred, we return to the lights, the decorations (some did not even remove them from the previous celebration), the copious food making all kinds of excesses, gifts, spending, advertising actively and passively, toys, consumption…
Abundancia, prosperidad, buenas intenciones, reencuentros, excelentes propósitos e intenciones de renovación y amor
As if on a magic slate, everything that has happened throughout the year is erased, or at least desired to be, focusing only on the crucial event of the birth of the Lord and what it represents in principle: union, bond, surrender, resurgence, forgiveness, peace, and harmony from the nucleus of the singular family to the great family of humanity.
Problems, shortcomings, and scarcities are voluntarily ignored, dreaming of miracles that will cover especially the little ones with satisfaction and joy, trying by all means to ensure that no child lacks a toy, a sweet… at least on these dates. We trust and work so that this not only happens throughout a week but in all the remaining ones of the year.
The scope of these festivities far exceeds religious beliefs, with a large number of people, even if they are not practitioners of the creed, becoming intoxicated with the Christmas spirit.
As is well known, there are two large parties without inscriptions or registration around Christmas. The one that asks for this madness to pass quickly based on various reasons and arguments, whether due to sadness, longing, nostalgia, diverse faith or philosophy of life, or due to… and the other unconditionally supportive party that adores the celebration, preparing for it in advance, with enthusiasm, fully embracing it and enjoying it to the fullest with their own as well as with strangers.
Each of our children is different, even though we have treated and educated them the same.
In daily life, so many fronts emerge to be resolved with children, depending on the stage they are in, with a diversity of difficulties according to their age. It is common for families to find themselves with offspring in different life phases and to juggle in an attempt to attend to each of their children as adequately as possible and according to their needs.
Surprising for many parents is the fact that they often repeat that “how is it possible the attitudes and behaviors so opposed of their children being that they have treated and educated them the same”. Precisely in the knowledge and acceptance of their singularity lies the key to establishing the relationship, communication, and optimized development of the minor’s capabilities.
We may find ourselves attending a heartwarming Christmas family meal at a full table where no detail is missing and that the children, who are siblings and children of the same parents, have such diverse and even contradictory responses as one of them becomes saddened, empathizes, and shows solidarity, reflecting on all those children and people who do not even have enough to eat, while the other not only does not even think remotely about such a topic but does not value at all their state of fortune and well-being in addition to having pretensions and demands.
It is obvious that human beings are very dependent in our growth and development phase and that we need conditions of protection and physical, food, medical… basic care that, if not met, have serious consequences on the evolution of minors. In the Western world, a high percentage of the minor’s elementary needs are met, and it is even tended to think that educational needs are also met since there is schooling, delegating the greatest responsibility precisely to the school environment. If throughout the year it is quite common to grant children material gratifications, at Christmas time it is accentuated if possible, either Father Christmas or the Kings or both.
Know the children, how they are and how they are, what their strengths are, what needs they have.
Among so many gifts that gratify all the senses, it would be more than appropriate and generous to place in the first place the authentic knowledge of your children.
Cómo son y cómo están, cuáles son sus puntos fuertes, qué necesidades tienen y cómo potenciar al máximo sus capacidades
We are accustomed in our world to move in a computerized and telematized space where electronic games are usual. A platform like díde, in a very simple way, feasible to perform as well as accessible, allows the knowledge and early detection, from two years to eighteen, of our children and young people of their situation, capacities and possible difficulties.
From the díde team, we wish you that the Christmas celebrations are authentic, full, shared with harmony and genuine affection, as well as the possibility of three hundred and sixty-five days ahead to grow and evolve as human beings and to be able to help and support your children to achieve it as well.
