Wares Ali Khan :
School-age is predicted to conceive socialization, form patterned behavior, and most importantly it is meant to be configured with trustworthy companionship of the same age groups. At this stage, emotional and intellectual well-being is significantly settled and even potently shuffled through the interactions of peer learners, candid amity, and mutual interactions between students and teachers. In that sense school is a very domain where teenage tender kids remain engaged with unleashing the fullest possible development for living morally, socially, creatively, and of course productively in a constructive setting.
A practical approach in the process of rendering and sharing knowledge, education, and behavior between students and teachers is sustained at school through close interaction and reciprocal conduct. More significantly, here our beloved kids are nourished intellectually and matured emotionally-which is a pivotal process that might be accomplished-nowhere by no means. Some ill constant catalysts have fabricated our school kids that have turned them addicted to a prolonged screen dependency. As a result, a good number of school-goers have lost their zeal for many and their socio-psychological and intellectual states are being greatly affected.
The future of the tender-hearted learning kids is being crushed under the pressure of imposed expectations grown from the result-oriented mindset of the guardians. Many times our children have been deprived of a proper socialization process, maturity of social interaction, and opportunity to enjoy childhood. We know the first and foremost room of learning for a human child is the family. The influence of education-perception, customs-belief, norms-ethics-ideology, and integrated way of life acquired from the family is inevitably reflected in the classroom environment. This effect is far-reaching and these social achievements acquired in the family environment are the catalysts for major changes throughout life.
We have to keep in mind that most school-goers are in their adolescent period, the crucial time for reshaping their physical, mental, and emotional states. Now, they need to have ample opportunities for blooming properly. An uncultured, stunted, and idle mind is a much greater destructive force. We can never afford the loss of our children’s behavioral, mental, and emotional attachment and spontaneous development further. So, in the teenage sensation, no monotonous and melancholy state should be spared for our school kids. They need to be away from all varieties of negative feelings, focus and stress. That is why, respective parents need to listen to their adolescent school kids with patience, give priority to their needs, and provide possible comfort and relief against all setbacks they experience.
A comprehensive and stringent pattern of physical, behavioral, emotional, and mental changes may appear this time when our adolescent school kids experience several starring challenges. Although a significant number of adolescent learners in the country have been experiencing an acute crisis related to their mental health, this issue is underdiagnosed and undertreated. Working parents, on the whole, are not able to apportion quality time to their adolescent kids. This proximity gap and deprivation might turn up boomerangs in some contexts. There is an alarming rise in juvenile delinquency, child abuse, anti-social, misappropriate, and deviant behaviors.
Teenagers with an emotionally disturbed trait can also experience huge irritability, loneliness, isolation, frustration, or anger. Emotional disorders can intensely affect their growth, social inclusiveness, and socialization process. Therefore, to promote mental well-being and protect adolescents from adverse emotional experiences, psycho-social counseling is imperative. If our kids feel mental disturbance, emotional turbulence, or any sort of disorder, they must be given proper aid. Because too much emotional disturbance can make them deranged in a greater context.
What our kids think, how they feel, and how they use their thinking consciousness to manage everyday life-are substantial parts of their mind and emotional health. Healthy kids having a sound mental state never succumb to excessive emotions, such as anger, fear, violence, delinquency, conflict, guilt, tension, depression, or anxiety. To have their total well-being, a balanced connection of goodness with both physical and emotional health is imperative. But the reality and regret are that the more we the guardians are careful about their physical health, the more indifferent we are about the soundness of our children’s minds.
Respective parents should make feel the school kids like to be with them always, and provide the right care and compassion simultaneously. Sustaining an open mode of communication with the adolescent kids in respect of their core needs will render them relief and feel secure. So, parents ought to deal with their school kids with patience and have a keen look at the four-featured growth in a bid to improve their total well-being. It is indeed a great challenge for all of us to safeguard the learning, behavioral pattern, and emotional and intellectual well-being of our school children. Yet, we hope the crises and complexities our teenage school kids have, shall be eased shortly.
(The writer is an academic and
psycho-social counselor).
