May is mental health awareness month, even the royals know the importance of children's mental health as shown in the this public service announcement by the UK's Duchess Kate. But what are children telling you that your ignoring and/or not hearing?
Boy: I'm watching the people come and go, come and go. No one comes to see me. I am sitting on the side, remembering when they did. My mom's home always saw me coming and going there were people to play with and when there wasn't there was always my mom standing by to play and read with me. We'd cook and play games and she let me tell her my stories, I wanted to marry her when I grew up. But they said you can't marry your mom and you can't kiss her anymore there is to be no more hugs.
Here there are no more stories, no more friends and they say my dad is bad, so I must he half bad.
The new mom and old dad are happy that they are married. The mom is hugging the dad while he is looking out the window. The kids start playing. They are happily married.
My old mom must be really bad, they won't let me call her and they won't let me see her. I feel guilty that I miss her and I love her still; she always had time and patience to listen to me.
The new mom is going to bed maybe she'll be happy when she sees everything is clean in the room. Her wonders who cleaned it and why they cleaned it. The kid cleaned it to make her happy, but it's not good enough, because the kid didn't finish his meal and skipped dessert because he was full. He goes to sleep and dreams of of his mother who told him how thankful she was for the wonderful things he did all day and his stomach wasn't full and he got to have dessert.
Boy: I'm watching the people come and go, come and go. No one comes to see me. I am sitting on the side, remembering when they did. My mom's home always saw me coming and going there were people to play with and when there wasn't there was always my mom standing by to play and read with me. We'd cook and play games and she let me tell her my stories, I wanted to marry her when I grew up. But they said you can't marry your mom and you can't kiss her anymore there is to be no more hugs.
Here there are no more stories, no more friends and they say my dad is bad, so I must he half bad.
The new mom and old dad are happy that they are married. The mom is hugging the dad while he is looking out the window. The kids start playing. They are happily married.
My old mom must be really bad, they won't let me call her and they won't let me see her. I feel guilty that I miss her and I love her still; she always had time and patience to listen to me.
The new mom is going to bed maybe she'll be happy when she sees everything is clean in the room. Her wonders who cleaned it and why they cleaned it. The kid cleaned it to make her happy, but it's not good enough, because the kid didn't finish his meal and skipped dessert because he was full. He goes to sleep and dreams of of his mother who told him how thankful she was for the wonderful things he did all day and his stomach wasn't full and he got to have dessert.
