What baggage of experience will your child carry into adult life?
Will it be a sound confidence in their own abilities, an understanding of how and where to seek and receive help and support?
Or fear and anxiety toward life's situations, which turn into psychosomatic illnesses.
This depends on whether parents are able to hear their child, whether they're able to understand what the child is going through.
Emotions in childhood are vivid, and a child doesn't yet have the skill or the ability to explain or make sense of what's happening in their inner world.
If the adults are absorbed in their own concerns, the little person is left alone with their own thoughts and feelings.
And then the physiological manifestations of unspoken, unexplained emotions become a form of physical illness.
This is what we call psychosomatics.
Problems with the respiratory system, the stomach, frequent colds, headaches
— this is how changes in one's psycho-emotional state can manifest, not only in children but in adults as well.
There's a simple, visual method of diagnosis that's easy to try. Children love to draw. Ask them about what's happening with the characters in their drawing.
Look closely at the color, size, and placement of the figures.
By asking your child about what they're drawing, you can learn a great deal about what's troubling them.
