Children Must Spend Their Energy

Children Must Spend Their Energy
Summary: Sat discusses with parents the importance of helping children expend their energy on a daily basis.
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Sat: We have to realize something - that children have much more energy than grownups. Our energy has been dispersed into a lot of channels of thinking, solving, doing, and responsibility; they don’t have it, they don’t have any of that. So, their energy just rises out of their capacity as a child. If it is not used well, we cannot expect them to behave well. The children have to play, they have to get tired, they have to be in nature, their energy has to be used daily, sometimes hourly. You are lucky you have girls; with boys you have to help them use this energy hourly by some sort of physical activity.
So sometimes when we see some behavior from our children it is not like they are not behaving well, they don’t know what to do with this energy that has not been wasted. There has to be a regiment, whether they are a boy or a girl, although boys are ten times more [likely] to do something with their friends, but it has to be really, really active. And then this frustration turns into a physical activity.
I have seen My children when they were growing up, if I had not done something physical with them, they would not behave well. They just wouldn’t, they would not listen, they would retaliate against all your advice and it is so normal for a child because with us, we know how to control this energy better than they do.
Parenting Call
6/26/21