Mental health of parents contributes the mental health of kids.
The Covid situation might have surely affected you mentally, economically, and emotional, your stress, anxiety level might have increased, changes in your life might have affected you but your kids got more affected. For every child their parents are superheroes but when they see their superheroes stressed or unhappy it makes them stressed.
Changes in kid’s life like online classes and interruption in their natural curriculum is also affecting them. And these things might have surely stressed you out too, taking care of their online classes, making sure that they are learning and in this situation it’s very difficult for parents to balance their life with work, personal life and raising children.
Then another challenge for the families who were affected by the diseases, where one or both the parents were in quarantine and left their kids to manage on their own and the additional stress when lots of families have lost their loved ones.
In such complicated situation it’s even more difficult to take care of children in proper way and fulfilling their basic needs like proper nutrition, care and mental health. Difficult situation for parents also, affect the mental health of kids.
Do you know, the first six years of children growth play very important role in their mental and social development, so its very crucial for the children to have a happy and mentally stable childhood. According to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) 9,364 children between the age of 0-17 have been affected by the disease, 7,464 children have lost their one of the parent, 1,742 orphaned and 140 were abandoned since March 2020. Research showed children going through so much at early age face serious trauma.
Hence, its very important to the take care of mental health of children and for that first parents need to make sure their own mental health as it is directly connected to the kids. The more happy and good you feel, the happier environment you can give to kids at home. Healthy environment in the house makes kids believe in good that no matter how bad everything is going outside it still going to be okay.
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