Openness Demands
The most open person existing on earth are children, they find it easy to relate with anyone that gives them attention. When children need attention, parents majorly are expected to give them the attention they needed. I have seen some parents who it has become their usual act shutting up their children who need their attention in some ways.
When a child is shut up, such child withdraws from being open regarding the matter, even sometimes this leads to closing up general. This is when they stop talking about themselves and asking questions regarding a matter that is of concern to them from their parents.
Also, when you detect that a cheerful child suddenly becomes shy parents are expected to become more attentive to such child but in most cases, it is always difficult to penetrate such child. Patient and understanding are required here if not, the children-parents relationship will be ruined rather the child will keep up with the parents-children relationship instead. Relationship communication is expected to be a two-way channel of relation but in cases like this, it becomes a one-way flow which is parents-children relation.
We are in a world where parents don't bother about educating their children on matters of concern that they will encounter outside the walls of their homes. Parents should educate their children on pressing societal issues like sex education, moral values, manners of expressions, peer group and pressure among many others. Understand that if you don't educate them, the society will even beyond the level they should know which might be unhealthy for them and pollute their reasoning or mind.
The media has also become a high channel of influence on our children and the main issue here is that some parents don't mind what their children watch. Children these days often imitate what they watch on TV, hear on radio, music, internet among others. However, It is advisable for parents to always review any media programs or shows be it cartoons, music, movies and the likes before their children invest their minds in it and enlighten them if needs be.
To parents, let your children's matter be your concern because when they go off track it will be traced back to you. So to avoid that, start giving them the proper attention they needed now and then. Children think faster than you think, don't let their age deceives you because some will say "he is just a child or she is just coming up" that child knows more than you think. Move closer to them, you will be surprised to find out what that child knows. Openness demands from both parties, when children discover that you compromised then they close up (not being open) which make cost you your children-parents relationship.
Finally, parents should keep away any materials that may endanger the children's mental health, invest positively in their minds, engage with them mature conversation and help them solve difficult puzzles and issues. It helps them grow better and become more articulated in all they do. In conclusion, when they complain about a thing or person don't ignore nor neglect their view of point because we are grooming them to become future leaders and they are to live on after us... Any parents who take note of all these will win their children to themselves and the openness is unmeasurable.
Hope I have been able to pass a message across to parents across the globe...
Great reminders for parents and to everyone too as we have nieces and nephews and we come across children every time. It's quite sad how we want to discipline children, thinking what we do are for their own good, but at times, we prevent them from expressing their thoughts.