Keeping Your Child In A Bubble Of Happiness Doesn’t Do Him A Favor

Even though we feel like we are making things easier for him by not allowing him to confront things, we are in the process of harm our child.

If you have a child, you will do everything to bring him up in a happy environment. But unfortunately the world can be a harsh and cruel place at times. Keeping him in a bubble of happiness is not always ideal for his future.

Think that sooner or later he will have to get out.

It is normal that you want to protect them from the outside world, but sometimes that protection can backfire on them.

Maybe you are turning your child into an easy target, instead of making them strong and prepared for life.

Happy children, bubbles and sterile environments

The fact of showing a whole pink world to his child, and of keeping him in this artificial bubble of happiness, will prevent him from confronting the cruelty of the world.

We don’t mean to say that life is torture. But, as with everything, it is necessary to go through certain difficulties in order to be able to learn, to make mistakes and to overcome disappointments.

When a happy child realizes that all is not as rosy as he thought, he will feel a great shock.

Your child has to experience good things as well as bad ones. At first it might seem a bit harsh, especially as parents.

But then you will understand that you are wrong in protecting him from something that he will have to face one day anyway.

Imagine, for example, that throughout your life you received everything very easily. You never knew what it meant to be wrong, to make a mistake and to strive for what you want.

Now put yourself in the situation where you have to face all of this. Your reality is totally different. And at that point, you don’t know how to act.

Keys to educate for life and to get out of the bubble

Maybe a not-so-happy childhood and a more real education is better for our children, rather than artificial happiness.

With this objective and the firm intention to educate them as best as possible, it is necessary to take into account the essential keys, which are the following:

Let them get it wrong, fall, get out of the bubble and start over again

Keeping your kids from making mistakes and stumbling repeatedly is a big mistake. There are many lessons in life that you only learn by stumbling. Do not prevent your children from learning from these lessons.

Goodbye to emotional labels!

We label everything, relationships, emotions… We label them as positive or negative but in reality they are all necessary and valid! Euphoria at a certain time can be as bad as sadness.

Train for change

change and stepping out of your comfort zone are necessary things. It is obvious that children need stability, but they must also be prepared to face the uncertainty and the continuous changes to which they will be subjected.

Never hide the reality

Watering down reality is a mistake because we blind our children who don’t see what is really going on. We must avoid this because we are creating artificial happiness.

Train for independence

You should never turn your children into an addict, just the opposite.

This will allow them to acquire the responsibility of making decisions, something that will help them in the future.

Parents’ fear, the worst ally to keep children in a bubble

When you have read all these tips, you will surely think that it is very easy to educate a child. But, when you put all of this into practice, things get complicated. Why is this happening? What is going on in the minds of the parents?

We are afraid that our children will not know how to make decisions, and that they will  suffer.

The problem is that all this fear hurts them, and they become fragile people who do not know how to face the problems of tomorrow.

We need to introduce our children little by little into the real world, without watering it down, and without false expectations.

They need to know what lies ahead and prepare for what they will have to face.

If we don’t teach them how to face the world, tomorrow they won’t know what to do.

It is important to show them the path to take, and to get them out of this bubble of happiness, which will do them more harm than anything else.