Within a few weeks, in my home of five people (dad, mom and the three children) there will be a new member. It will not be another baby, but a dog, an Alaskan Malamute puppy that will come to live with us, to give us many joys, more work and, above all, to give and receive much love.
For his arrival, because of what I have never had a dog, I wanted to read about these dogs and it is incredible (or perhaps not so much), the similarities in relation to emotional care that animals have with children. One of the things that I have read and that I have always maintained in reference to children is that these animals are very affectionate and very calm, but that they need to exercise, activity, move. If you take it out to exercise, it will be a magnificent dog. If you don't take it out, all the energy it has will be used to find fun at home, and it will probably destroy it.
Something similar happens in children. They are an (almost) inexhaustible source of energy and proof of this is that when we need to sit down, they are still running. And if they have no chance of "wasting" that energy they get nervous, they get angry and they get more tantrums. Therefore: to more activity less tantrums.
Those angry parents because the house is taken apart
I know many parents who explain stories of their children in plan "I can not do more, it has everything messy." In winter, I can be one of them too, because we go out less in the street, children spend more time at home and have an ability to dismantle everything fabulous. If you let them, they make you almost an internal move. If you do not leave them, somewhere they want to "change the world", that is, they get angry, make tantrums, ask for things that they don't even want deep down, etc.
Come on, if you get bored or if you have not had much activity that day, the chances of having a tantrum increase exponentially. If they are older, they do other things. Maybe not a tantrum, but you see that they fight among themselves, that they argue with you or that nothing seems good to them, for example.
More activity please
If you see that you can be in this situation, if you do not go out too much or not spend much time playing with your children and they enter that spiral of fights, boredom, getting angry and behaving badly, try giving them alternatives, to go outside and offer them more activity. Go to the park for a while, have fun together, run, play with the ball, with the swings, run back home, take advantage of the weekends to get the bikes, or to go to the mountain.
It seems a lie, but you do not know the good that comes to do to children going out to nature, abroad, and exercise your little bodies full of energy. In addition, if they do not do it now, you will tell me when they will do it.
