Help children in trauma disaster – 2

There are many ways to help children in trauma disaster. You can do as parents or Other Caring Adults to show that you are support them. DO THE BEST TO HELP THE CHILDREN –>
1. Help the children to talk how they are feeling and listen without considered opinion. Let them can have own feeling, which might be different than others. No Problem at all. Help the children to take their time to build things out and to have their feelings. Don’t hurry them or pretend that they don’t think or feel as they do.
2. Help the children learn to use words that communicate their feelings, such as happy, sad, angry, mad and scared. Just be sure the words fit their feelings – not yours.
3. Promise terrified children that you will be there to take care of them. Support them many times. Help the children to stay together as a family as much as possible. Let them have some have power over, such as choosing what outfit to wear or what meal to have for dinner.
4. Go back as soon as possible to former routines or develop new ones. Continue a normal schedule for the children and reassure that the disaster was not their fault in any way.
5. Help your children know that others love them and care about them by visiting, talking on the phone or writing to family members, friends and neighbors. Give confidence the children to give or send pictures they have drawn or things they have written to other family members, friends and neighbors.
6. Re-establish contact with wholesale family members. Help your children learn to belief adults again by keeping promises, including children in planning routines and outings.
7. Help your children get better faith in the future by helping them develop plans for activities that will take place later – next week, next month. Don’t be afraid to “spoil” children in this period after a disaster.
8. Children cope better when they are healthy, so be sure your children get needed healthcare as soon as possible. Make sure the children are getting balanced meals and eating enough food and getting enough rest. Spend extra time with your children at bedtime. Read stories, wipe their backs, listen to music, and talk softly about the day.
9. If you will be away for a time, tell them where you are going and make sure you return or call at the time you say you will. Remember to take care of yourself so you can take care of your children.
10. Allow special privileges such as leaving the light on when they sleep for an interlude of time after the disaster. Find ways to highlight to the children that you love them.
11. Help the children to make boundary their contact to additional trauma, including news reports. Don’t give children more information than they can handle about the disaster.
12. Children should not be anticipated to be brave or tough, or to “not cry.”
13. Don’t minimize the event. Build up positive anniversary activities to celebrate the event. These events may bring tears, but they are also a time to celebrate survival and the capability to get back to a ordinary life.
14. Allow the children to be worried losses.