We mental health professionals also use these domains to teach children with Autism and ADHD, the basic skills and management of anger, boredom, irritability and when puberty comes up, parents faces the difficulty to manage sexual issues and urges. Are we going on the right track while focusing on these parts to enhance so that children and their parents can work better? If not, what can be our approach?Β
Yes, these are new challenges that are coming up and need to be addressed. The question is when and how. Even while engaging with these subjects, it is important not to give too much importance, as an excessive curiosity may not be helpful either. It should be largely a clinical approach and mainly focused on the right understanding of a man-woman relationship in its totality. Sex is there but only as a subordinate, secondary element in the complexity of a man-woman relationship. Helpful effects of an unregulated sex on the emotions and the psyche should also be discussed. Simple ways and means to keep oneself gainfully occupied in a healthy way, especially through sports and creative activities, should be incorporated as part of the daily life. Finally, it is helpful to teach some simple meditation as well as to expose children to high and noble thoughts from different sources.Β
To sum it up, what children are suffering from is not just a lack of sex education or a misinformation; they are suffering much more due to the depravity of consciousness and the degrading influence of the general environment in which they live and breathe. They need to learn the good as well as the harmful effects of the company one keeps. Regular reading of inspiring stories, cultivating moderation and mastery over impulses, instilling the love to learn, exposure to beautiful poetry, art and music, especially developing the aesthetic sense, will all go a long way in teaching and training their mind towards healthy, beautiful movements.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
