El poder del abrazo: experiencia con mis sobrinos
Abrazar a nuestros niños.
The power of the hug: experience with my nephews and nieces My dear community of daddies and mummies who teach me through their writings how beautiful family is. In this opportunity, I want to join you to tell you through these lines, the wonderful therapy that is Hugging our children.
My parents have always hugged me, it has always been normal for me. Since I was a little girl, at Christmas, birthdays, when I came to see them, I never missed a hug. I think that as I grew up, I understood how important and necessary it is in everyone's life to generate and maintain this bond. The hug is one of the most primitive and natural expressions of love, I will tell you why; from the moment we are born, the first bond we have with our mother is through the hug. A few hours after birth, the mother can breastfeed the baby and that moment when the baby is pressed against her breast, wrapped in her arms, gives a sense of security and confidence that will accompany the child for the rest of its life.
The first months are decisive in forming this bond of security and protection between mother and child. At the same time, the child identifies what he or she likes and dislikes about the company of his or her mother, giving rise to positive or negative emotional responses. When the child grows up, this love becomes evident when, for example: you arrive at a place and the child immediately runs to hug you; also, when the child arrives at school and hugs his teacher or his friends. This shows us that if the child sees and has the affection of hugging at home, then he or she is likely to show it in other areas.
Mis sobrinos y yo
My nephews and me
It's not because they are my nephews and nieces, but we have a unique bond. Since they were little I have given them a lot of love through hugs, kisses and caresses.
I can remember when they fell asleep in my arms when they were little, while I sang them a song or rocked them. También, cuando los dejaba en el colegio o los iba a buscar. Sometimes, when I missed them very much, I would go in the middle of recess to visit them, and their hug was always smiling and sincere.
This bond has always been with us; in fact I can't imagine a time when we were watching TV, playing or sleeping that they weren't literally "on top of me". When we hug, I transmit all the love, affection and tenderness I feel for them. When they hug me, it is always linked to the "blessing aunt", because I give them respect and trust.
Finally, if there is a proof of pure and beautiful love between them, it is how they show love between cousins. It is very important to teach our children that there is no problem in hugging boys and girls alike, as long as it does not violate their privacy. Gabo, being the only boy among these girls, they hug him more and he loved it, so much so, that they couldn't take a picture because they immediately "hugged", I think they don't know any other way to take pictures. Nowadays, even though three of them are physically far away every time we talk, we have a 3.0 tradition to hug each other, we say "we hug each other in the distance", "I hug you from here to there", "until we hug again" this is not comforting and even though we are far away, it keeps us hope alive for when it happens.
Writing about this topic has been rewarding for me because it is speaking from my experience. When we do not show affection, affection, when we do not pat our children on the shoulder when things are not going well to encourage them, it can have repercussions on their self-esteem, confidence, empathy and solidarity, which in turn helps them to interact with others. Children can be apathetic, individualistic and disrespectful because they do not practice this type of affection. Sometimes, it can also happen that we scold children or push them away when they hug us, or we do not take the time to enjoy the hug, this also generates as a consequence, that the child does not receive an affective reward in return, and stops doing it. Remember that our actions are being observed by children and they imitate, so we must take care of what we say and do for their benefit.
Hug your children always ALWAYS! There will come a time when hugging will embarrass them in front of their friends 😝☺️. But that's another matter.
El separador es de en esta publicación // the divider is by