Parents experience conflicting feelings when they learn that their child has a developmental disability. The reluctance to agree with the medical verdict fights feelings of despair. However, over time, the conviction comes that your baby is like all other children. Only he needs more love and care. How to raise a special child? How to adapt it to society?
Instructions
Step 1
Try to get rid of your own inferiority complex. Do not look for your own or medical fault in what happened. For you, the long-awaited baby will still remain the cutest and most beautiful. Do not project your resentment on him at the injustice that happened, unfulfilled ambitions.
Step 2
Look at the individual capabilities of the child (without overestimating them). Save him from excessive custody on your part, do not seek to hide from the world around him. Believe that even the most helpless toddler is much stronger than his parents think. He is able to take care of himself on his own, and your immediate primary parenting responsibility is to teach him how to do it.
Step 3
Encourage the little person to be active in all areas of her life. Give him the opportunity for self-realization, let go of yourself more boldly, remaining his very first and main friend and protector. The more trusting your relationship is, the more successful your further rehabilitation will be, and the more success you will achieve.
Step 4
Do not become isolated in your own narrow circle. For a successful physical and moral upbringing, a child needs to maintain active family contacts with friends, colleagues, and relatives. Do not be ashamed of your situation, and go out into society more courageously. Circles, feasible sports activities and competitions, tourist trips and excursions primarily teach communication with peers. Soon you will be proud of the successes of your baby, even if they are not to the extent that you originally dreamed of.
Step 5
Use everything in order to maintain peace of mind in the family. This is the only way to create the most favorable atmosphere for overcoming the disease and the all-round development of the personality. The more mutual help and support between loved ones, the more successful is the upbringing of a special child.
