Children and Young People Now are reporting that counsellors are seeing a rise in teenagers with depression, with some initial research suggesting that family break ups and social media are a significant source of that depression. The article goes on to say that parents need to work at supporting children to express their feelings in an environment of, we presume, emotional safety as well as physical safety .
But there must be reasons why children are losing out on the support they need. What do you think may be the reason for a potential increase in children feeling depressed and does it really have to do with a lack of support?
Possible answer: Yes, we think it does. Parents work so hard, and usually both parents today work conventional hours which means that they are both exhausted and both spending minimal amounts of quality time with their children, through no fault of their own.
The impact of that is that children lose out on seeing and feeling their parents express their love and support for them and begin to tackle the world on their own. This causes huge levels of stress and the only way to reduce them is to give parents the opportunity to work in ways that are flexible and will allow them time to be with their children.An organisation we feel will be very much a positive part of the future is Anywhere Working. Parents are already cottoning on the possibility of working from home: more time with your little ones, productive work hours and a win-win for the whole family.
Well, I agree with, I guess “Anywhere Working” to the degree that parents have to work too much to SURVIVE. Many work too much to maintain a decent standard of living, AND that IS the major problem with families today. Parents have to work to much and children are left to be raised by society. Schools, groups, their peers, bullies, gangs, the streets, television, video games… all contribute to the mental state of our children because they spend more time in those places and with those things than they do their families.
These outside influences are the other reasons that children are having a difficult time. We have DOWNGRADED society to the point where a child loses their spirit much sooner in life than when they grow into adulthood naturally, and i mean that literally… When children grow up in a ‘natural’ environment with fresh air, sunshine, pets, farm animals, fields, dirt roads, bicycles, trees, ponies, ponds, barns… that is the picture of life that we dreamed of when we were growing up… that is how we, as children, lived in and loved, and what we as adults, STRIVE TO REGAIN. Retire and move back to the farm… why? Because of the fresh air and sunshine, the animals… the love of the earth and nature.
There is no such thing as ADHD. Give a child a thousand acres, a barn full of buckets of corn, hay string and wild ponies, and you will SEE WHAT ADHD is, it is a child wanting to live life, life that society on this planet has destroyed for our children and the earth. Life that big business and government have taken away from our children and from us by industrializing and commercialiing the earth to produce goods for people around the world while strip mining our mountains and rivers for profit… OK, that is just one more reason…
ANOTHER REASON children are depressed is because of our needs and our wants being melded together like there is no line between them.
And because ALCOHOL is so predominant in all families and money is tight, so if you’re an alcoholic you have more bouts of upset than if you are a steady drinker or if you don’t drink…
Another reason is because THERE IS NOTHING CREATIVE FOR CHILDREN TO DO IN THIS WORLD!!! Bars, bars, and more bars,sports events, entertainment events…. HOW MANY ARE THERE FOR CHILDREN? Mostly videogame rooms where they stand in one spot and play a game… What else is there for our youth to do when they are not at home with mom and dad?
Another reason children have a difficult time is because abuse is socially acceptable in some worlds, and that is the world some of them live in. Abuse by family members, their peers, bullies, gang members… all of these people learned abuse somewhere… society raises us…
One most important reason that children are distressed and depressed is because we are a society revolving around drugs: pharmaceutical drugs, street drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, energy drinks… all of these things alter the nature of reality in our minds for a short time… and we are happy, then, we are sad… we are a world of manic depressants because this world is depressed… THE WORLD IS DEPRESSED, OPPRESSED, SUPPRESSED,,. how do you expect our children to be? We gave the a dream of a silver spoon, and gave them a reality of stress, emptiness, aloneness and abuse… Why shouldn’t they be depressed???
and “working from home” helps some, but, it is still stressful. Mothers need to be able to BE WITH THEIR CHILDREN IN MIND AND IN BODY IF SHE SO CHOOSES so they ALWAYS HAVE HER TO HEAR THEM, above everyone else, MOTHER IS WHY CHILDREN ARE DEPRESSED. they need her and they miss her, and she is working… love to all
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Thank you for your comment. Yes, we think children need more time with their parents, more creativity in their lives and more room to run free.
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