CHILDREN AND EMOTIONSChildren in general have a desire to feel happy, but it is not possible all the time. The happiness and peace slips away and in turn takes over by feelings of sadness and gloom. At times they may experience the feeling of fear, shame, worry, anger, disgust, hatred, jealousy and self-hate. In their tender young age, it is difficult for them to tackle the daily pressures of stress they face from their family members especially from their parents. Facing fears, frustrations and iritations make them weak and powerless.
Children and adolescents are considered as play objects by their parents and care takers. This means that kids live on dangerously high levels of stress and experience severe mood changes, this often leads them to mental and emotional break down. These children are at times neglected by their parents for their abnormal bad behaviour. Their self-esteem and respect are shattered and these adolescents find comfort in substance abuse. They find relief through alcohol and street drugs. When the parental relationship is broken these adolescents become the victim of social outcast result in emotional isolation, when connecting with trusted parents is lost. This leads to emotional restlessnes, trigger pain, frustration and intense fear.
Parental neglect and emotional restlessness produce shame in these children. Shame takes away their self-respect and erode their self-esteem, weaken their self-confidence, shaken their self-discipline, shatters their self-determination and leads them to failure and loss of self-control. These children feel uneasiness in their day to day relationship with their care takers especially with their parents that leads to internal and external withdrawl from others.
At the emotional level these adolescents act like kids. They follow their emotional impulses. They feel uneasy, restless and guilty. Their mind is filled with negative feelings like anger, guilt, fear, envy, jealousy, anxiety and hatred. These emotional conflicts lead them towards depression. Thes youngsters find themselves acting and saying things in ways that distance them from the parents and the peers whom they love. They develop their own way of feeling, thinking and acting. It is high time for the parents to understand and study these clues and act out positively to bring their children under their control before it create mental discomfort and emotinal distress that leads them to severe mental handicap and emotional break down.
