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(CRHoy.com).- If you want to create a safe environment for your children, three tips could especially help you achieve that goal.
Keep in mind that a safe environment does not only imply a physical space, but goes beyond, and involves the neighborhood, the community, the school, play spaces, among other places. Likewise, the concept refers to the interactions of children and adolescents with adults being constructive and positive.
The psychology expert Arantxa León Carvajal indicated that a safe environment it is a space for positive interaction, free of violencein which minors unfold easily and inclusively with their peers and other people.
León indicated that these spaces generate trust and ownership to protect minors from situations that could involve abuse or neglect.
His three key recommendations for creating safe environments in their own homes for minors are open the lines of communication; make your home a refuge and ensure a safe digital environment.
Regarding the first point, León said that it is important to create spaces for listen to their daughters and sons attentively and without judging them. If this task is difficult for them, those in charge of minors should try to transform this interaction into a game that encourages minors to speak openly.
“Another technique is to define a day to write and exchange letters to tell each other among family members what they did during the week and share affectionate words with each other,” he recommended.
How to make the house a refuge for minors? León said that, to stimulate this vision, adults They can encourage the development of artistic activities at home such as painting, theater, dance or writing, which allow them to express what worries them. Through these dynamics, it is possible to create a protective family shield in their own environment. An example would be to share during the performance of a work and place it in a visible place in the house.
It is important to transfer security to the digital environment of minors. This happens by knowing the digital world in which minors develop.
That action cannot be done from censorship and reproach, but through knowledge and participation in the type of digital consumption that minors do.
“Knowing and accompanying what children and adolescents do online is essential for their personal safety. Sit next to them when they are playing video games and ask them to teach you how to play it, take photos with fun filters for your social networks or simply watch together the videos you like the most. Although there must be control over the content they access, the key is also not to judge, but to teach them to protect themselves in the digital world and apply criteria that allow them to determine what is best for them.“, he recommended.
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