When children suffer from heartache and heartache

Parents should tell of their own heartbreak when children have heartache

06/03/2015

When children or teenagers suffer from heartache, parents often do not know how to handle it. They feel helpless and overwhelmed. With sayings like „You will fall in love again "or „However, if you do not help your child with heartache, parents should hold back but signal to the baby that they are there for the offspring.

Heartache of children seriously
„Parents should not trivialize the heartache, "explains Maria Große Perdekamp, ​​director of the online consultation of the Federal Conference on Educational Services, to the news agency „dpa“. It would be better if mother and father remembered their youth and tell their offspring of their own lovesickness. But it does not make sense to impose on the teenager. Restraint is the better way. It should be the young people signal that you are there when you need it.

"If the teenager retreats hard, parents can encourage him to do something with friends, and most of the time, the circle of friends plays a vital role in the lives of young people, so they are well caught up in lovesickness." If the young people refused all help, that would be alright, so Big Perdekamp. „In no case try to crack a hard nut“, advises the expert. It would be better to wait until the child becomes accessible again by itself.

Parents, on the other hand, should be alert if their children also capsule off from friends for weeks. Then add suicidal thoughts, professional psychological help is necessary. (Ag)