Overcoming Child Depression through Enchanting Tales and Physical Fitness

Child depression is more common than you can imagine. Many parents refuse to believe that their children might be suffering from depression or any other form of mental ailment. Why? Because they are kids. They are not supposed to feel anxious or become a victim of dejection. The fact is that children, just like adults, have their “dark days” and choosing not to acknowledge those dark days only makes things worse for children. In this post, we will look at how you as a parent can help children with their ongoing stress and its underlying effects.

Pave the Way for an Active Lifestyle

The most important thing for children is that they have a balanced life. However, many few parents understand that. In today’s hectic lifestyle, parents hardly have any time to focus on a child’s physical fitness. Most parents believe that the activity kids get in their P.E. class or school playground equipment is more than enough. But in reality, children need more activity than the tiny bits of movement that they get to engage with in school. According to a research study, school-going children need at least 42 hours of active play in a week.

Here are some sure-fire ways that you can use to introduce ample activity into your child’s life:

• Let him walk to the school from some distance
• Let him use a bicycle or skateboard for school
• Arrange play dates and encourage active play in children
• Allow your kid to attend sporting events and other activity based events at school.
• Encourage kids to participate in community services
• Take part in the community playground clean up projects and involve your kids with you
• Let kids help with simple household chores like dish washing, garage clean up and the car wash.

According to a growing body of study, empty mind leads to boredom and ultimately child depression. Engaging kids with different activities allows them to utilize their energies and eliminate anxiety.

Use the power of Tale Telling

Stories are a great way to entertain children. No matter how depress your child is about his grades or any other issue in the school or playground, stories can help them forget about their little troubles. Here’s a thing that you need to consider, not all the stories are the same and therefore they don’t interest all kinds of children. It is crucial that you understand your child’s taste in literature and help him find the books that interest him the most.

There are various age related children’s book that can interest children. The challenge would be to find something that the children will actually like. If your child seems to be disinterested in the idea of stories, then increase his play time. Remember that a simple playground activity, including active play with a commercial playground equipment or any play equipment for that matter can be a perfect substitute for stories and screen based activities. Anything that keeps children engaged can divert their attention from the apprehensiveness.