Face Own Battles
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Face Own Battles
In healthy, happy families, it is recognized that individual family members must sometimes face their own battles and learn from their own experiences. For example, a six-year-old complaining that s/he is bored, should not be rescued and given something to do. This deprives the child from learning to build self-entertaining behaviors and causes the child to become dependent upon other family members for entertainment -- this is a serious problem in today's society with families being led to believe that children need to be entertained or be controlled in their play, such as in organized sports. A limited amount of sports is good, but without plenty of free, unorganized time, a child does not learn how to self-entertain, problem solve, or develop the necessary social skills to get along with others. To find out more about how we have become a society of overstressed families, please read The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon.
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