A child is coming home from school with a photo, he has worked in his imagination – a purple elephant with six legs and a top hat. Instead of encouragement or interest, they get confusion or criticism: “Why is this purple?” “Elephants do not look like this.” The child’s enthusiasm decreases. His voice becomes silent, once a lively and eager to tell a creative story. At that time, narrow but significant emotional door is about to close.

In cultures where the decision replaces openness, communication not only suffers, but fails to emerge. Children need a stable, safe environment to test and share their ideas, feelings and imaginary ideas. When adults respond with constant improvement, dismissal, or ridicule, children begin to understand that silence is more secure than expression. This is not just a parenting error; This can have a long -term effect on a child’s psychological development.

Let’s not confuse guidance with the decision. Telling a child that it is unsafe to keep Lego in their nose, guidance. Telling them that they are “ridiculous” to cry because their biscuits broke in half – this decision. And those decisions pile up like a pile of unwanted socks. Over time, the child intervents a message: “My feelings are not valid. My thoughts are not quite good. I am not quite good.” Q Axiples, Less Self -Esteem and Emotional Constipation.

This emotional shutdown is not only disappointing – it is clinically related. From the perspective of mental health, children are more likely to develop depression, anxiety disorder, and even behavioral problems in stressed or over-realized environment. They can withdraw, highly perfectist, or defective – not because they are “bad”, but because they are learning to move forward through a world in which it is dangerous to tell the truth.

Communication is a two-way road, and in childhood, it begins with a single lane: expression. If that lane is continuously “wrong!”, “Not good!”, Or “it is foolish,” is blocked by road signals, then the child will completely stop driving. Or worse, they will please people or reduce the streets of silence that follow them in adulthood.

So what can be done? For the beginning, growing up can be curious rather than evaluated. “Hmm, a six-foot purple elephant? It’s fantastic! What is his name?” The “it’s not realistic” opens more doors than. Even then validate emotions when they are uncomfortable. Accept difficult items with phrases like “I’m looking” instead of “stop overrecting”.

Finally, a child’s mental welfare thrives in places that encourage open interactions, not discouraged. And although none of us can be the right listener every time, even a short moment of acceptance and understanding can set the platform for a lifetime emotional strength.

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