Childhood dreams How important are dreams in a child's life? How to support a child in realizing his dreams? How to help your child achieve his dream?
For children, dreams are extremely important, they help tame emotions, solve problems, develop their imagination and inspire action. Children can enjoy their dreams and believe in the realization of even unrealistic ideas.
So how can you help your child realize his dreams?
• Respect and accept your child's dreams (even if they are unrealistic or different from yours).
• Avoid criticism and indications that the dream cannot be achieved.
• Try to find out the source of the dream and the need that gave rise to it.
• Talk to your child, help him bring his dreams closer and make them come true, invite him to imagine, draw or describe them.
• Involve your child in making their dreams come true. Help her plan activities to meet them (remembering that these activities should be adapted to the child's capabilities and based on his strengths).
• Strengthen the child in his activities, help him, appreciate even small achievements.
• Don't make your child's dreams come true right away. Thus, you deprive him of the joy of waiting, the ability to cope with the difficulties that she may encounter on her way.
• Teach your child to cope with failure and disappointment. Show her that they can be a valuable experience and that it is worth learning from them in the future.
• Reassure the child that he can make mistakes and that it affects the overall assessment of his skills and the possibility of realizing his dreams (pointing out violations, emphasize achievements).
"Don't let your little minds convince you that your dreams are too big" quote from the fairy tale "Lilo and Stitch"
Don't forget to talk to your children about dreams. Dreams play an important role in life, thanks to them a person can develop even more every day. Dreams help solve problems.
If you want to bring up the topic of dreams with children and their meaning in everyday life with the smallest children, it is worth starting with art games that will help with the expression of emotions.
To do this, ask the children to draw their deepest dream or something that will symbolize it. The execution technique depends only on you and the materials you have.
You can use colored pencils, paints, it can be a picture made with the help of light plasticine plasticine, or a plasticine picture. Allow your child to express their emotions in their own creative activities.
