The Role of Parents of Autistic Children

Children are a gift from God Almighty. Whatever the condition of our children, we must be grateful. Parents are obliged to guide and educate, especially mothers. Mothers are key figures in the success of educating children.

Parents must be patient in guiding, providing various activities, so that parents know what potential their children have.

Yes, good friends of Steemkids&Parents. Of course you also want to know how to make these children (autistic children) develop, like children in general. Automatically the role of parents is very large, right? Because most of the time the child is at home. So the ones who know are the parents, especially the mother.

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Both should play a role, father and mother. But automatically the mother is more, because the mother is at home, right?

The mother here holds the key, in the sense, but still needs support from the father, like that.

Well, for training or assistance in exploring and developing the talents or potential of autistic children, it's actually the same. It's just that with autistic children, we have to be more careful. For example, what does he like, what does he like to play, does he enjoy playing or not.

Usually if he has talent, other people can't do it, but for him it's very easy, including things like that. From the role of the father and mother, cooperation is needed, but it's still different, because the mother is at home a lot, the father is the one who earns money. There must still be a division of tasks. Here, the child's potential and talent must be supported. So if I liken it to a company, the director is the mother. So the father should support it. So if the mother says, "Oh, this looks good Laras here".

Support it.

Because fathers usually work outside, right? So time at home is sometimes limited. So usually what is feared is that they will end up spoiling the child, because there is a feeling of guilt.

In addition to treating the child, we also automatically have to treat the parents. Well, if the form of therapy for the parents, it can be through consultation. Talking together about the child's development, and so on. Then we together make a program.

Now, to train yourself, what techniques should be applied to autistic children, or following every instruction that is applied?

So at first, many are asked to do something, not because they don't want to, but because they don't understand. So usually we help the child, we do a promotion, we help the child, "This is it, this is what is shown".

Because asking the child to sit, sometimes he doesn't want to sit. It doesn't mean he doesn't want to, but he doesn't understand. So we hold the child, then we sit him down.

There is a message that I want to convey to parents who have autistic children, so that they can develop and explore the potential of their children. So as I said earlier that the needs of children with special needs, or autistic children, the key is that we are sincere. Besides being sincere, we must quickly find something for the future of this child. Because if we close ourselves off too much, the one who will suffer is the child. We can't be with him forever.

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So the longer we wait, in the sense of not doing anything, the more time is wasted, in vain.

So for friends who have autistic children, you have to change your mindset, that this is a beautiful gift from God given to us.

Greetings always compact.

By @midiagam