This episode of 'Teen & Tweens' delved into the crucial topic of the Psychological Issues of Teenagers, with program host Mr. Khurram Khurshid engaging in a comprehensive discussion alongside esteemed guest Ms. Okasha Khan (Clinical Psychologist).
This dedicated program aims to shed light on the challenges impeding the progress of teens and tweens, fostering insightful conversations guided by the anchor. Key discussion points included:
1. Do the psychological issues of parents have any effect on the psychology of children? 2. What should parents do to make sure their psychological issues wont transfer to their next generation? 3. How can social anxiety be eliminated within children? 4. Why do teenagers have so much mood swings? 5. What is eating disorder among children?
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Whatever a human mind thinks, his entire
body behaves accordingly. Stress is a small thing
and what is its root cause?
Our negative thoughts, our mind. Our
mental health is as important as
our physical health. The
impact of parents' psychological issues falls on the children. When
everyone is stressed, he should go for a
walk for 15 to 20 minutes and feel good.
Teenagers are facing more stress and depression.
When the elders of the house
suffer from any such anxiety or depression, then
it is very obvious that it will
impact the children.
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Bismillah Rahman Rahim
With the programme Teens and Twins, I am Khurram
Khurshid Nazreen. It is said that human
beings are
complex and human beings are the
product of emotions. If this is so, then it
means that the outside environment affects the
personality of a person, the mood of a person.
If we see, the heat of the seasons The
roughness of the tone and the cold seal in the attitude
everywhere and all this gives rise to greed, lust and desire, political stubbornness, fear,
depression, anxiety,
overthinking. Along with this,
if we see, we understand that the
effect of these things trickles down, that is, whatever the
mind of a person thinks, the whole
body of the person behaves in the same way. If I am
moving my hands right now, then its signal is
basically coming from my mind.
Similarly, in a house, when the parents, when the elders of the house are
victims of any such anxiety or depression, then
it is very obvious that its
impact will come on the children. Today we will talk in great detail about these emotions
and many psychological problems related to it.
Today we have an excellent guest with us,
I am saying excellent guest because you are a child
counselor, you are a clinical psychologist
and you interact with such children and their
parents
and today we will talk to them about their practices and their
experiences. We will also ask them so that our
viewers can get maximum information
regarding this I thank
Akasha Khan for coming and taking
time out of your busy schedule. Thank
you very much. First of all, tell me what is the meaning of Aakash? Aakash means sky. It
means sky, bright
future, one who touches the skies. So
basically, from the Islamic point of view,
it is a dua that protects you.
So, it has multiple meanings, but the
meaning is this, one who
touches the skies. Beautiful name, very beautiful
name Nazreen We will start our conversation with Akasha Khan Sahiba from here,
but we have to take a
small break. After the break, we will
talk with her in detail about teenagers and their psychological issues. Take a little
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Break Welcome back Nazreen, let us
start the conversation from where we
took the break. So Akasha Khan, first of all,
tell us whether there are
psychological issues of parents. Are these
transferred to the children and does their impact? Does the
impact of the psychological issues of the parents fall on the children? This is a very good
question, definitely, because
parenting of children is very
important. Many of the issues that
children face in childhood,
their reaction is the same when they grow
into their teens or whatever happens after that, they have to
face them. Now, if the
parents of your house are living in a house, if the mother is
depressed or under stress or there is any
fight between them, then the
children are seeing that, the children are
also feeling that and they have to observe that thing and
adopt it on themselves.
For example, like abuse, you must have
heard about it. Researches also prove this thing.
If
you see the history of a child who
abuses as an adult, then his
history shows that his parents also
face the same thing, that is, the matter starts from there itself. The
matter starts from there at that
time. The time being, the symptoms of children
definitely fade away
because they cannot express them in that
way but the thing is that when
they move into adulthood, then basically all
their issues, all of them,
all of them are there in childhood itself
and this is totally 80% but you should
understand that it is the fault of parenting,
whatever is good or bad in this, whatever it is,
parenting would be a major part, that
thing, well, there is a thing related to this, I would like to
understand from you, now if the father is in depression,
father's anxiety, by the way, we do not have the
culture of it here, we do
not consider depression as a disease at all, first tell us this
and then I will
come to the next question that
how much sensitization do you see of it in our society,
the thing is that there is no acceptance,
when we get any physical illness,
we are very conscious about it, if there is
pain in the stomach, even a headache, or even fever, then
we go to the doctors. People run to the doctor
but people do not know that
as much as our physical health is important,
our mental health is also as important.
People ignore this thing.
Why do they ignore it so that the label is okay, I have talked about a
very important thing here, I would like
you to explain it to us as to
why and how to do it. Sorry, mental
health is as important as physical health is
important. Then
you can do it from there. Look,
as I have talked about the way physical health
works in your life,
in your daily routine, in the same way, if a
person is not mentally stable, then
he will not be able to do any work. His personal,
social, professional, all the areas of his
life will be disturbed. Wherever he is
connected, wherever he is connected,
he automatically connects with all the areas.
For example, if there is stress,
any situation is like this, and the person is
not sorting that thing out, then the
next day he will go to his daily routine and will
not do his work properly. Okay, he will not do his work properly, the
workload will be more, okay, and there will be
anxiety and depression and stress,
relationships will be spoilt with colleagues, okay, you will
also get scolded by the boss, there may be a
risk of losing the job, after a day or two,
okay, even though he does not want it, you are saying that a
toxic personality is formed, only then
you will see that when he comes home, if there is a wife and kids,
all the anger will be taken out there, why
because it cannot be taken out on the boss, right? So
after that our anger is anyway taken out on the weaker ones, exactly our anger is taken out on
him too, so you see this is a chain
going on, stress is a small thing, a
problem is a small thing, and what is its root cause,
our negative thought, okay, negative thought
leads the question here,
because I am talking about a very important thing,
where does negative thought take birth from? Negative
thought takes birth from your own thinking,
in which if I say that you
stop thinking, can this happen, it is
not possible, just like your other physical
organs are working, in the same way
our mind is also working. Our brain also works,
we should tell it to stop thinking.
On a lighter note, the
basic difference between Ashraful and others is
that Ashraful thinks while Donkey does
not think, he does not think. And I am sorry, those
Ashraf and others who do not think should understand
that they are not using the basic ability that Allah has given them.
But
you are talking about negative thoughts, now he is
thinking, now he is thinking, okay, now the problem in that is that
when those things are to be thought about,
and see, if I also say that
nowadays no one has any problem.
Nowadays, there are stressful
circumstances, however much you want to do in life,
you can do it in a positive way,
stress can come somewhere or the other. And it happens
in daily routine also. Now in that, it happens
that we want to take it in a positive way
or in a negative way.
For example, if there is a person, his
boss, I will give a small example here of a
workplace, his boss. He has
greeted him and he did not reply, okay
now he has passed from there, now it is in that person's
mind that I may have made a mistake,
now it is overthinking, okay
exactly this is the root cause, now
he will think that I may not know, it may be my
mistake, my work is not liked, it may be that
all these negative thoughts are from me,
now he did not think that it may be that the boss did
not hear his greeting or he was
in some tension of his own that he did not understand the thing
or he replied so casually
that he did not understand this or that,
see these are the things, a lot depends on our thinking, so in the
same way our
mind, our mental health is also as
important as we take our physical
health, that is, you are saying
that first of all we should do so much about this kind of overthinking
and the
negative thoughts arising from it should be given a shut up call, it would be
difficult but we can do it possible and if
it is possible then how it It is possible, yes,
see, now the thing is that we will get thoughts,
as I said earlier, we
cannot deny thoughts, but the thing is that even if it has come, even if
stress has come, we should know how to replace it,
we should know the coping strategy, how to
cope or how to deal
with our environment. We should know
how to deal with our stressful circumstances. If we learn these things, we have to
learn it. There are
some reasons for this, there are multiple reasons for this.
First of all, if we talk about how,
before that it is important to know what the
reason is. See, without the reason, when
you get to know the root cause, then
half of your treatment will be done like that
because when clients come to us
or parents come with their children,
they do not understand, they do not know
from where the problem is starting.
Now parents bring their
child saying that this child is not concentrating,
this child is not interested in studies, this is not the case
now. So people have come to
you with complaints, but you did not know
why he is doing this. It is possible that he is doing it
for attention, you do not pay attention. It is
possible that someone is
bullying him, due to which he is a
victim of social anxiety. There are multiple reasons.
So it is very important to know the reason and root,
what is the reason behind any issue.
Well, before coming to this and teenagers,
like you have talked in great detail about parents
and parental anxiety, you said that
it has a very negative impact, please
tell us that suppose the father is
in depression, is in anxiety, or the
mother is upset due to some reason, then no
parent wants that their
problem reaches their child. Now how can
they control this, that if I am depressed, like
you said, thoughts come, problems
also come, difficulties arise, now these do
not get communicated to the children, how to resist them,
if that person, like
you have talked about a father figure, For example, if he is
going through depression or some stress,
then he should be trained on
how to cope with anger because
he should understand that whatever he does, whatever he
expresses, the atmosphere of the house will be
spoilt and it will have a direct impact on the children.
Parents should understand this. Now, the
parents should, for example, if we
talk about psychological problems and if
any of the adults or parents is facing
this problem, then they should do
stress
management to deal with it. There is stress or anxiety. There are
many techniques of stress management that
we can use.
First of all, it is
very important to relax yourself. Now, we
are in a situation where you
cannot go away from the situation, you cannot change your
circumstances and you cannot
detach yourself from the situation.
See, you should always remember one thing that you should focus on your
own self. It is just
your caste, you cannot change people or the environment. So
how many
people and how many places will you change, will you
leave your job, for example,
break your relationship, or will your children do something like this,
in what all things, so the best
approach is to change yourself according
to your requirement. So you can work on yourself,
I can work on myself,
I am having an issue with one thing, I don't
want to change you, I
want to change myself, so that
it doesn't have any impact on my children and
all the people related to me, so
this is very important, if we understand this thing and
talk about stress management, then there are
multiple techniques in it, you can do that,
along with that, people
refuse exercises a lot, they
feel that they should not do this,
before I move on to the next question,
you have talked very well about this exercise, is there
any combination of exercise, tension, depression, anxiety, any
relation, definitely a combination, please
tell us about that. See, when you are under stress,
certain chemicals are released in our brain,
which take us
towards tension. You must have heard about our flight and
fight, all of them
respond to us. So when we walk
or we are doing some exercise, those
chemicals in our brain will be
released, which give us a feeling of well-being, which makes
us happy. Or you can also personally
experience this thing that
when a person is under stress, he should go for a
walk for 15 to 20 minutes, he should
feel good, the problem is the same. See, things happen step by
step, the problem will not be solved but he will
start feeling good. When he
starts feeling good, he will also think
that how do I sort out my things, he will
also understand how to
tackle things, when
the mind is so exhausted, so stressed
or you are not feeling good,
then how can it be done? So it means
that when parents themselves are in some depression
or problem, And you want it
not to reach your children, firstly you should control yourself, control yourself as well,
number two go for a walk and do
some exercises, so that they
feel good because research also
proves this, so this can be one
technique, after that replace your negative
thoughts with positive ones, okay now
as I gave an example earlier, let
us refresh it again that for
example now if the child has expressed his feelings on something or on the
parents, if we are talking about the father,
like the boss thing has happened, then he should
think that this can also happen, see you have thought negative
thoughts also, that means like we say show off your
happiness, your
boss has passed by you, you must have thought negative thoughts also,
why can't you make it positive, it's an amazing thing,
yes, by working hard, if you have thought negatively, then you can make
it positive as well, now if
you have thought that it could be good, it could be that I have made a
mistake, you can also think that this
cannot happen, it cannot be possible
when If half the chances are
negative then the other half can be positive as well. So
if we feel that
we cannot come out of this situation, there has been a
financial crisis, a lot of
things come up, any problem has come up,
loss of love one or anything, then when we
feel that we cannot come out of this thing, then
it only feels to us that there is nothing
related to you and you cannot do it,
wonderful, okay, see,
if we understand this thing, then we
can make our life very smooth, so
first of all we have to work on ourselves
and we have to replace the things,
if no problem has come up, a
situation has come up, you have broken down, doesn't matter, let it be go, just move on, just
move on. So, take courage, from whatever you have discussed till now, the only person who
can take yourself out of it is you yourself,
and its easy solution is to move on, move on.
Move on, move on with your life and it is said
that I am unable to move on, as
you just talked about, you are saying that
psychologically if a person decides, then he can
move on, he can definitely do it, these are
small things, okay, maintain your emotional
stability, give
yourself positive gestures,
use coping strategies, okay
I can do these things, you want to
boost yourself, right, but when you are doing the same, when
a thought can let you down,
put you in depression, then why can't a small
thought take you out of there
and Allah Ta'ala says that I give to my person only that and I
deal with him only that,
as he expects from me, as he expects from me,
we will take this conversation forward from here, it's
time for a small
break, after that when we come back, we will talk to Akasha Khan in
more detail on similar important issues and psychological problems, we will
take a small
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break Welcome back Nazreen, just now Akasha Khan was
telling us very beautifully about the
parents of children. She told
that parents should control themselves,
should exercise and should try
not to let their problems reach their children. And one very beautiful
thing that she said was that
if you can have negative thoughts, then
why can't you have positive thoughts? It was a very
beautiful thing. And then Allah says,
as we were saying before the break,
and on top of that Allah says that whatever you
expect from me, I will give you that. Some time
ago, Dr. Joseph
Murphy in Power of Subconscious Mind
says that there are two parts of a human brain,
one is the conscious mind and the other is
your subconscious mind. Dr.
Joseph Murphy says that your conscious mind behaves the way your subconscious mind
signals it to, and when you sleep, the
conscious mind sleeps and the subconscious mind does
not sleep. So whatever you said, always
give a positive message to your subconscious mind,
conscious positive behavior.
You, who are practitioners,
clinical psychologists,
tell us what kind of
common problems do you face with teenagers.
Now let's talk about them step by step.
First of all, we think that depression is
only in grown-up children
or in adults whose
lives are affected by workload or
students etc. But it is not so.
Teenagers are facing more stress and depression, as
compared to
parents, because if
you see, it is from parents' side as well as from
schooling, there is peer
pressure as well and after that, there is a stage, there is a phase
of life when they have to
step out into a new world, so
this is a very
important phase and they face these things in it.
Mostly, I think
all children face this thing,
but the thing is that
if you and your parents contribute to this beautifully, then they can get rid of it.
Many children get depressed in that thing, many children fail to
face it, then there is anxiety, anxiety,
panic attacks. Often
you see that there is no pressure, no
pressure, no social pressure,
but still they are facing it.
Basically, now one of the most common things that I
think is social
anxiety is social anxiety. First of all,
tell us what is social anxiety? Well, the social
anxiety that teenagers are facing basically
happens in this that your
socialization reduces a lot, that is, the
children avoid social gatherings, either
they just get stuck and think that they have to
stay at home or they have
problems with social gatherings. There are
multiple reasons that could be behind this, which
could be the reason, one could be having some inferiority
complex that I
cannot face people or the public.
Okay,
where do such things come from? See, such
things can come from multiple things. Like in
this phase of yours,
your physical appearance is also changing,
your mind, so
many things can together do this, it is
possible that someone is thinking that
if we talk about self-esteem, then it
can be in any way, either he is
not satisfied with his physical appearance,
that maybe I am good looking, nowadays this is a
trend, it is the era of social media,
children who were not like this earlier, now the
basic problem of children, in my opinion, is that
they have to use social media
and they
also have to act according to the social media and when they are
not able to fulfill this thing, then it is obvious that they will have low
self-esteem, they will
not be able to face it, how will they say it among four people, how to
talk to friends, so there is
no answer to this thing that we do this in this way, then in that
some such trauma has happened, some such accident has happened
with the children, then they
then tell that thing to outside people.
Okay, mostly they will either
stay at home or with their parents
and if there are some parenting issues going on
at home or something like that, then
they will also avoid that thing, so basically
social gatherings have to be avoided,
okay, if you find yourself
suffering from subjective anxiety, then
what do you recommend to the parents,
look, there are proper counseling
sessions for this, okay, parents should get the
children counseled in a proper way, now
when parents come, if we
talk about printing and this field of children, then
in this, 60% of the parents are
counseled and 40% of the
child is told because basically
all the action is coming from there and the
reaction has to come from here, okay,
so we basically have to counsel the parents as to
how you have to act
and whatever you behave, your
child will react to it. Do this thing and from here I am getting
this idea that the parents who do
not understand these issues as issues, then how are they
destroying the personality of their child.
Understanding or not understanding the issue is a second thing
these days. I think they do not even understand this,
they do not focus on the children
these days. You should see this because now
according to me both the parents are working,
okay, women are also working these days, where do they have so much
time to give quality time to the children, there is
no quality time, then
from where will the quality of the generation come, see
when you do not have quality time, then only
screening time, yes, of course you have given the children
only this thing that they do
not become a burden on you or you cannot give them time, you have given
them everything like tablets, phones etc.
okay and also see
that without first negligence that you did
not give them quality time, secondly you did not even
think about this, you ruined them,
secondly you did not even think about
what content they are watching, then
you talked about self esteem and
All those things from where you think now,
not just any girl in social media, now even
children will be visible to you on social media,
they have set a standard, they have
more followers,
exactly, so now see, he has set a
standard, so now people, children who will
see him, will follow him, so he has
become an ideal for them, he is a hero, they
want what he is wearing, they
want what he has, the things, the watch, the car, anything, in
this way, boys and children want what
you are seeing, your teenagers who are following
you, they are showing it to you, so
now you are seeing that, you want what you are
seeing, so now every parent or every
child has his own family background,
economically as well as financially, and in
terms of your upbringing, it is
also different in terms of bring up, so if not, when those things are
not available, then there will be conflict, right, there will
definitely be disturbance, but now
what should parents do here, now parents should
go on in a balanced manner, okay,
parenting should be like Parents have to give
confidence to their children in a balanced manner. It is
very important to focus on it. You have to pay attention to your children
because when you don't pay attention to them,
they seek attention from somewhere else
and then many
big and dangerous problems arise. There is one aspect of this
that our teenagers fall prey to.
You have seen the whole
chain. It continues along with the chain
and then it continues further. At the end, when the child's
mental health is damaged
and then the parents start taking them around, so
first you should see
what you are doing with your children. Pay
attention to them. I am not saying
that you should not give them anything. It is not like that.
Keep a time for everything. There is
schooling, the children have to go to school. They have to do their
homework, they have to go to tuitions,
academies, etc., whatever academics are,
that is one side of your time. Then
keep a suitable time in which they can use the phone, etc.
Their sleep, now you see, a
small child of this age
goes and thinks, what will happen to him at 12:15, then
what will he get up like that, then he will get
up in the morning, go to school and see that
irritability, that frustration level, he will not be
focused, he will not understand how to do it, his
schooling will also be spoiled, your academics will also be
spoiled, there also you
can be bullied and you can also do it, right, so there are so many
things in this way, so
parents should make
a schedule for the children according to a proper schedule,
do it according to that and the
quality of time is okay, I can
totally understand that nowadays there is not that much time,
okay, by the way, I would like to ask one thing here that the
parents who do
not have time for their children, then
for whom are they doing all these things the whole day,
for whom are they leading such a tough life, they are doing
double jobs, the
mother is also doing, the father is also doing, then
for whom should they do it, this is the issue, we do
not know at all. This is the only shortcoming
because of which the punting is getting spoiled. The root cause of punting is that they do
not even realise what they are doing. That they are doing
all this and for what they are doing,
that is what is causing the bad
thing. So these things are
important. You should walk in a balanced way, there is no
issue, you should give them quality time. If
you are going for a walk yourself,
make a plan for short walks on weekends,
not on weekends. If you are going for a walk with the child,
take the child along because the child
imitates what the parents do, the
child will do the same. You
can do small things. If you are
going for an exercise, going to the gym or
anything, take the child along with you.
If the mother is working in the kitchen, then make
her stand with you.
Why should you spend some time with them? It is not that you get the
work done. It is your bring up,
whatever it is, but what is it that you should have a little communication with them.
This is the issue. There should be no communication between
us, there is no
communication between our children and parents,
parents do not communicate with children
and when children have to tell about school,
whom should they tell, you have handed it over to the
maid,
now she has become more attached to the maid than to the parents,
right, so
when your own things are like this, then
how can you expect that
children will behave like this for you or
these issues of children, that is, when you practice,
children come to you, parents
come, the basic thing that you see is
that parents do not give quality time to
children, from which all the issues
start taking birth, Nazreen is having a very thought
provoking conversation, Aakash Khan, we will
continue the conversation from here,
but we have to take a
break here and we will be back after the break,
welcome back Nazreen, Aakash Khan,
tell us why there are so many mood swings in teenagers
Well,
we can see its multiple issues.
Nowadays I will also focus on diet.
You should see what diet the children are taking. It may be
junk food or something else in that way. You should understand
that there are no proteins etc. in it in the
way a child should be fed. Now this
misconception of people is that perhaps diet does
not disturb our sleep, our eating pattern, but
there is a huge link connection of your mood
swings with your diet. That
means you are saying that
parents should first take care of their child's
diet. What do you
want from diet? The intention behind diet is that it should have
proper proteins, calories,
vitamins, whatever are the requirements
of your body or whatever your
food intake should be, it should be in the proper
way. If the
child wants to eat junk food, you should give it once a week
or gradually,
okay, children drink cold drinks. We
use a lot of drinks, there are
some juices or the other, now the
sugar in them is also so high,
you should understand that the sugar in them is
also not good for your health, so diet is
very important that we keep the diet in a
good shape for swing, after that,
if the child is under stress, it is due to any reason,
due to any reason of schooling or parents,
if the child is personally under stress, then that stress
and the way of expressing it, which is
also a depression of adults, then adults will express it by being sad
and
alone, the way of children is different, the way of children is
not like this, the
way of children is that sometimes they will go into a very high state, they will be
happy with small
things and in that way and sometimes they will
feel very low, what is it that there is
no stability in the personality and
who is to give stability to the parents,
well, this problem is
found in adults as well, it is there in adults as well, see, the same
thing. It must be so, earlier we used to talk about
these problems in adults and elders
and you are saying that whether it is in young girls
or elders, it is a
psychological problem, it is a problem, this is
something that should be understood, this should be
highlighted. The second reason is
stress, if a child is under any kind of
stress due to any
reason, then definitely due to this thing, he has
mood swings. Now like in adults,
your depression and stress, it is
expressed in different ways, okay, but
what happens in children, sometimes their
mood will be very good, sometimes it will be very low,
so this is the stability of mood swings
and this is the instability of personality
and where is this coming from, parents are
not giving it, absolutely right, the
attitude of parents and the bring up
skills of parents are doing that to your children in this way,
and the third
reason is sleep disturbance, mood.
In swings, mood swings have a
lot of connection with sleep disturbance. That is,
irritability, anger issues. The reason for this is that
how many hours of sleep should a teenager get for a sleep disturbed person?
Parents should focus on this.
If I talk about biological aspects, whether
he is a teenager or an adult, it would be seven
to eight hours. But if
he is a teenager or a child, then
definitely parents should make a schedule for it.
Whatever it is, it doesn't matter whether it's a
weekend or Sunday, or if
you are going out somewhere. It often happens that you go
out somewhere, but your
sleep hours and the start and end of your sleep, or
your up and down, should be fixed. This way your sleep is maintained.
Parents should ensure that the child is doing
his fixed timing
properly or not because the
sleep If your cravings are not fulfilled,
even we adults when they are not fulfilled then a
strange mood happens, mood disease happens,
irritability happens, anger
issues, it provokes anger issues,
then if the child goes to school, okay,
or if he goes to any social gathering, he will get
angry, will fight,
then bigger issues will arise, so these are
small things which become the root cause of
mood swings and all other things,
along with this, since you are talking about diet, it is
very good, you have elaborated it,
diet disorder also happens,
mental disorder in children, which is absolutely good, eating
disorder happens in children and
some of it can be called
like bulimia
nervosa in which too much of anything is
eaten, children often get stressed, well
now under stress people feel that
maybe not eating under stress
reduces your appetite, but it is not
so, okay it depends from person to
person, okay it is possible that one person is not eating. And another
person is eating too much and now I
feel that this overeating is increasing,
earlier he used to eat less but now he is eating too much, so
now children are also like this, they will
start eating too much,
stress, okay, there are all kinds of things like stress, stress anxiety, getting anxious, getting panicky, getting
anxious, to cover
that thing, to solve that thing, there is
just one strategy,
you have a compensator for that thing, okay, like
for example, if I talk about an adult, he
starts smoking in an unhealthy way, drinking alcohol or doing something in an
unhealthy way, so he has to avoid it,
okay, now in that, some girls,
especially those females, these females are
more prone to this thing that they do
n't eat food to just maintain their figure, okay,
right? And this is more in children.
This is more common in teenage girls.
Compared to this, when they talk about
all those TikToks and videos in their peer group,
what happens is that you don't eat at all, you do
n't eat. They feel that eating would be
the solution, which isn't it, it is a
disease in itself. See, even if you
go to a dietician, she will
never recommend that you stop eating.
She will tell you that you have to eat everything
but in a portion.
She will also
never give you these things in her weight loss plan. So
these small things should be taken care of.
Parents should take care of this eating disorder. It is
absolutely
good because time is less and there are
many things to ask the father. And quickly, I will
ask you this, we see that
one child is very active and another child is a
little lazy, quiet, sitting on the side, does
not interact,
even when he goes to relatives, he remains a little aloof.
What is the reason for this and
how to overcome it? It can be done well if that
happens that corner loneliness, yes,
yes, it is okay to stay to yourself, it means
that your confidence level is low, okay,
your broad top parents have made the child
very over sensitive, okay, okay,
small restrictions, small things, see, there
can be two things, small restrictions are
also okay and by providing small things, by
pampering, okay, right, you have made him so
sensitive that he will
feel small things in everything, whether it is
in the sense that these things are
restrictions, okay, so either he can have the
other side of the situation that or he is
so stressed that he is
not able to face the stress, he has failed in some small test
or there has been a fight between the children, then
he could not tolerate the whole thing, so the
parents have made the children so over
sensitive that they are
not able to tolerate this thing and they are not able to
handle the situation. There is no skill to do this.
Parents have not given the skill because
I am being repeatedly reminded. Time is running out.
Last question and with this we
will end the discussion.
What tips would you give to parents to handle all these issues? In
short, first of all, the
tip is to bridge the communication gap.
Okay, give
proper attention to children, give proper assessment of children,
spend time with them, give them quality time as well.
Along with that, focus on this thing. You should
not give them over-attention. The problem also arises due to
over-attention.
Okay, they do not need over-attention.
You have to bring up all their skills by keeping them in a balanced way. You have to
provide them with skills.
Give them enough confidence in such a
way that their self-esteem should be boosted so much that
tomorrow when they stand on their own feet
or go out without their parents,
they should have enough guts that they can do it. So that they can
face the things and secondly, if
they feel that the child is having some serious
issues and they are
not able to deal with it on their own, they are not able to handle things, then
they should take help from a professional, there is no
harm in it
because the children themselves did not
know it, it is the parents who have to take them there
and the parents have to try to get the
children counselled and all these sessions done, so it is
very important for the parents that they should have psycho education. In the
conversation that we heard from Nazreen Akasha Khan Sahiba, parents should
first of all believe
that whatever hard work they do,
whatever efforts they put in, they are doing
jobs, they are earning, they are doing it
for their children, so
spend quality time with the children for whom you are doing all this and if you
see that your children have any such
disorder as Akasha Khan Sahiba
told us today, then immediately consult a clinical
psychologist. Get the children
counselled and also get yourself counselled and
understand what are the basic problems of my child, only through
this we can give a good
Mushra
presentation, with this I
would like permission from today's programme Teens and Twins, please
allow me, Allah Nigehban
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