THE IMPORTANCE OF LETTING CHILDREN BE CHILDREN

Children should not be treated as small adults, because it alters their emotional and mental growth. There are many parents who think that treating children as small adults, helps them mature more quickly, however, this affects their development and their relationships at school, friends and family.
The fundamental step of any person is childhood, because this is the time most of the memories that make the adult behavior of a person. During childhood, people acquire the traits that characterize the rest of their life. It is also the stage in which major characters are rooted for life; values​​, fears, phobias, good or bad habits and the development of relationships.Children need to learn, but they also need to play, experiment and express themselves as children. Parents teach their children to ask and answer correctly, but they must do it naturally, using the child's language and not expect their children to behave and talk like them.

Some parents encourage cultural activities and positive attitudes in their children, such as reading, classical music, theater and arts in general. They use the right words to refer to objects and animals, body parts and situations. They worry about explaining things as they are, for not to deceive them. This type of education, fosters intellectual and emotional development of children, but the problem comes when it is the only thing that allows them to learn. To grow physically and mentally healthy, children should play and experience all kinds of age appropriate activities. They should be allowed to learn for themselves before discouraging them, because wanting to keep them away from danger tends to be repressive and promote fear in children, to experiment, to fall, and discovering new places and different games.

It is a reality, that now, games, toys and children's activities are related to violent acts, such as video games and the Internet. So as adults, parents have the obligation to review the games their children play and tell whether they are appropriate for their age and explain why. But, there are extreme cases and there is the majority. Children who are forbidden to play any video games or use computers, because parents think they are for fools and foster weakness. These parents think those who only play video games and spend every day watching television. For some parents it is the best way to entertain and to avoid being asked to leave the house and interact with them and with more children. Both cases are detrimental to the development of children.

There are children that their parents only allow them play with puzzles and strategy games. They are not allowed to watch TV on weekends in the morning, do not listen to music according to their age and that their most entertainment is play chess. Those children, do not ask for candy or toys and are not use to playing games or activity involving physical contact. They are children with sad eyes, feel very alone, you can perceive a great bitterness, and all the normal activities of their age, for them, are boring. These children also do not know life with children of their age, and when they do, they tend to be very aggressive. They behave and talk like adults and their parents desire is to turn their child into a genius, forgetting that geniuses are born, not made.

These children, as adults, will probably have a difficult time interacting with others. They do not know how to have fun. Fearful and phobic adults, they probably were children who were treated as adults, forced to mature early. Some of them can not establish loving bonds with their children, play with them, and are also often repressive parents who force their children to act like adults.
Children are children, not adults. Remember that, each stage in life is necessary to live. Our childhood is essential. Please do not kill their childhood.