Why you should listen to your child's NO.

Do you ever listen to your child when they say NO?

Parents are the first agents of socialization for a developing child. The parent help the child learn about the world around them. However, as children grow older, they start expressing how they feel. 

However, some parents want to force everything to their children even when children disagree. Children have bodies too. Those bodies are like those of an adult. The body can feel when hungry? When they need to pee, when it is cold, when it is hot,  etc. 

Some parents will force children do things when their body is telling them otherwise. You will see a parent forcing a child to go to the toilet when the child does not feel the urge. You will see parents forcefeeding a child after they fail to finish all the food. The child will beg but the parent will hear none of it. 

What does this do to a child? They develop negative view of the thing they're are forced to do when their body says otherwise. A girl can be Force fed when young and later develop eating disorders in adulthood for they never formed a positive relationship with food. 

Again, a child whose parents do not listen to them when they say no (when it is necessary), they might grow never to be assertive. They can be corced to do anything by other adults. You will see a girl giving in to sexual advances from a man even when she does not want it. Why? She grew up knowing that her feelings do not matter and she should agree to whatever she is told even when she does not have to. 

Ask yourself, is it always your way or the highway with your children??

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