What if My Child Loss Interest or Feeling Tire?

Your child staying home the whole day and he not get anything to do. He tell you say, “I tire O nothing here seh for people to do!” Before you put the TV on for him or tell him to go play video game on the phone or tablet, yeh some thing dem you need to think about.

What some parents na find out about children who can feel like this

• The kindna entertainment and the amount of time they will spent can make the problem worst. One father name Robert say: “For some children, they can really enjoy watching TV or playing video games more than doing normal things in life.”

  His wife, Barbara, agree too. She say: “To do things in real life you need to really think and put effort, and most of the time you have to be patient to see the result from your hard work. And that what children who like watching too much TV or playing video games not like.”

• Spending too much time on social media can make you to feel bad about yourself. When young people see their friend dem post on social media, it can make them feel like, their friend dem enjoying more than them. One girl name Beth say, “It can be easy to start thinking, ‘I just sitting down in this house here while all my friend dem enjoying life.’”

  And also, I na care how many hours somebody spent on social media, they will still come from there feeling tire and frustrated more. One young man named Chris say, “It can keep you busy O, but when you finish browsing you will not get nothing to show.”

• Tiredness can be opportunity. One mother name Katherine say that when children feeling tire because nothing around them to do, that the best time for them to think and find something to do. For example, she say: “They child can take simple thing like cartoon and fix something with it like car, boat, or airplane. They can even use blanket and table or chairs to fix house.”

  That the reason why, one psychologist name Sherry Turkle say that when children feeling like this “that opportunity for them to be creative.”a So, it not bad for your child to feel tire or loss interest in things. In fact, the book they call Disconnected say: “The same way exercise can make your muscles strong that how tiredness can exercise the brain by making you think.”

The main point: When your child loss interest in doing things or feel tire because nothing for them to do, don’t take it to be problem but as opportunity to help them be creative.

What you can do if your child loss interest or feeling tire

• If it possible, allow your children to play outside. Barbara, who we talk about before say: “It good to see how sunshine and cold breeze can move that tire feeling from in people. As soon our children start playing outside, they can be able to use their mind to think about different-different things to do!”

  Bible advice: “There is an appointed time for everything, . . . a time to laugh [and] a time to skip about.”—Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4, footnote.

  Something to think about: What opportunities I can give my children to play outside more? If it na possible for them to play outside, what other thing dem I get in the house for my children to play with?

• Help your children to think about other people. One mother name Lillian give this idea, she say: “Teach your children to do things for others like helping them to clean the yard, cooking, and visiting people. This one can help your children to be happy.”

  Bible advice: “The generous person will prosper, and whoever refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”—Proverbs 11:25.

  Something to think about: How you can help your children to enjoy doing things for others?

• Set the example. The way you can talk about your everyday activities can affect your children. One mother named Sarah say: “If we make our children to feel that we not enjoying our life, they will start feeling the same way. But when they see that we really enjoying the thing dem we doing, they too will learn to enjoy doing things in life.”

  Bible advice: “The one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast.”—Proverbs 15:15.

  Something to think about: Wetin my children can hear me saying about my everyday activities? What they can see me doing when I loss interest in doing things or feeling tire?

Something to remember: Help your children to make list for the different-different thing dem they can do. One mother named Allison say “We get one box where when anyone in our family get any idea, they can write it down and put it inside.”