Fatma Tuncer: "Give children opportunity to get to know themselves"

Fatma Tuncer: "Give children opportunity to get to know themselves"
Date: 14.10.2022 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Fatma Tuncer writes on children. Here is the full article.

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An eagle cub built a nest at the foot of the mountains and laid its eggs there. However, one day after leaving the nest, one of the eggs rolled and reached the village below. A chicken who saw the egg took it and placed it among its own eggs. He realized that the egg was different, but he still decided to adopt it and carried it to his nest with his own eggs. The day has come, the chicken's chicks have hatched one by one, and the eaglet has opened its eyes to life together with the other chicks.
 
Although the chicks realized that the eaglet did not look like them, they did not pay much attention to it. Here, the eaglet moved with the chicks and learned how to survive. Over time, he realized that he was different from other puppies and shared this with his siblings, but they tried to comfort him by saying that you don't need to think like that, you are a chicken like us.
 
When the eaglet came out for food one day, he raised his head to the sky and saw eagles flying here. He looked at them with envy and felt that he was an eagle and tried to get rid of their contradictions, but he was unsuccessful. He went to the main chicken and showed the eagles flying in the sky and said that he wanted to fly like them. But the mother chicken said, "You are a chicken, the chicken cannot fly", so the eaglet lived with a lifelong longing to fly, but lived as a chicken and died.
 
As in the story, some parents do not allow their children to get to know themselves and develop their abilities, they try to put them into certain patterns. The child has different abilities from his parents and takes action to realize himself, but the parents cut a shirt for him and they want him to wear this shirt for life. You find that overprotective parents suppress the child's abilities from an early age.
 
For example, starting from the age of three, children can brush their teeth, clean the toilet, eat, wear shoes and socks… But especially mothers do not allow the development of the child by doing the things that the child can do on their own.
 
When the child starts school, he feels like a fish out of water, cannot meet even his most basic needs, and looks for someone who can replace his mother. The mother did not allow the child to develop his talents and turned him into an eagle cub that felt like a chicken. And now the child has become dependent on others, thinking "I can't do it, my mother can do it" in almost every subject. When the child joins life as an adult, he needs people who can take the place of the mother and begins to feel powerless and inadequate.
 
Children should be able to solve the problems they experience in daily life with their own skills. Parents should contribute to the development of their problem-solving skills with expressions such as I believe in you, I trust them, and they should prepare them for life by saving them from being dependent on themselves.

YEREL HABERLER

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