Contemporary parenting practices focus on narrating children’s experiences constantly for them. Here's why this could undermine their healthy development—and what to do instead.
Such constant narration is taxing on parents and may cause children to disconnect from their body.It was the first evening of the seminar, and we were all sitting on chairs in a circle waiting for the psychologist leading the seminar to tell us what would happen next.After a while, I finally broke the silence by making a joke. I don’t remember the joke, but I am fairly certain the other participants of the seminar laughed, and I was pleased with myself.I was taken aback.
Instead of being wholly absorbed in an activity for its own sake, possibly without any specific goal, they now evaluate their performance, understanding that there is an expectation to do well. Rather than being engrossed in the act of drawing and experiencing it as a holistic activity, they become aware of the act itself.In all these situations, we guide our children to stop experiencing the moment in their body, and instead evaluate it, think about it.
But we often do so consciously, even though we realize that it is mentally and emotionally taxing. Our culture believes that we need to describe to children everything they experience or do so that they can make sense of the world and their emotions.
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