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Parenting Skill: Go Easy on Teasing Children

Parents should go lightly on rough teasing at home.

Being a parent of 2 kids myself, sometimes, I never realize that house teasing on my children would make them feel hurt, embarrass and annoyed.

 

Lots of parents like me, do tease our children and we used to remind them that it was just a JOKE, not the truth, just for fun, to enlighten our family mood.

 

Some children love to be poke or teased around too but they can be easily become over excited by it leading to nightmares.

 

In addition, too much teasing also may induce misunderstanding, hurting their pride or feeling embarrassed.

 

Poking jokes on children’s bad habits or blunders could annoy their mood and turn into tantrums too.

 

Parents should know that children age 2-5 years old have fragile emotions.

 

These little ones’ hates, fears and loves get out of control easily because they could not distinguish between what is the real fact and what is fake, just a joke.

 

For a little child, a father who pretends to be a dog scaring him while chasing after him may lead nightmares , causing fears because it was too much for a child to take.

 

Another example of house teasing such as farting, dropping items, stammering should not be taken as a joke because it caused long term of hurting the child’s pride, self esteem , confidence and determination to improve himself.

 

Teasing over a child’s mistakes or blunders is a wrong move for parents to make especially if the child couldn’t figure out whether it is allright to repeat the same actions since the parents do not take serious about them.

 

Child teasing should be mild , good natured and brief, don’t rub in more salt to the wound.

 

Nobody likes to be teased over and over again.

 

If your child shows tantrum, started to sob or display sulky expression, you should STOP immediately and APOLOGIZE.

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In addition, you should explain to the child that it was a light joke, educate him not to be petty over small matter and accept apologies with a open heart.

 

When adults feel irritated at each other over teasing, they cannot simply hit or insult each other over a trivial issue.

 

It is allright for little children to hit each other but do intervene when the fight turns serious with anger.

 

Most children feel humilated when they are laughed at , after being ridiculed with teases and don’t know how to tease the other party back.

 

Honestly, teasing is a tough task for children to handle, only adults know how to counter attack teases tactfully.

 

 

What should parents do

 

  • Teasing children lightly
  • Don’t use frightening expression or voice to scare children
  • Stop and apologize immediately when your child started to frown, sob or looked annoyed
  • Do not wait until the child shows tantrum , it would be too late to stop
  • Tease children over funny matters, not their bad habits or blunders
  • Make sure that you jokes are not sarcastic remarks or hurting remarks
  • Give your child a hug or kisses
  • Tell him that teasing is not real

 

 

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    • Children are too sensitive if teasing by their own parents. It can destroy their souls. That's the reason why some children have withdrawn character if socializing with others. We need to balance things up and tried to boost the confidence of these innocent souls. If parents continued to tease the children without limitations, it might result to depressions and afraid to interact with others.

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