8 THINGS PARENTS CAN DO TO PREVENT SUICIDE

Anirudh b
Live Your Life On Purpose
3 min readFeb 14, 2020

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Children have an important role to play in every person’s life. Every child born yearns for love, care & affection. parents have to be extra careful of their child.

Parent wants to do the best they can for the child. As the child is growing it is important to become extra conscious about his whereabouts.

It is important for parents to be very much present in their life.

Also be aware of their feelings, discomfort, likes & dislikes.

Some parents take things for granted.

They feel their child has grown into a nice adult and can take care of himself.

They tend to put not so urgent things under the carpet. This affects the child as he has fewer people to talk to.

Usually, It’s seen that both the parents are working on weekdays and the son is all alone by himself at home.

His parents are less available for him during weekdays. As the child is growing, he starts to look for people outside his family.

As he has not received love & affection from his family.

He looks for connecting with people outside his family and gets into the wrong company.

Also getting into drug addiction, stealing money, killing people, Etc.

These incidents harm the child as well as the parents. It only gives a bad name to the family and makes them miserable in front of the public

The last thing any parent wants is their child going to jail. The person cannot avoid it after all the wrong things he has done. He has to face the effects of the causes he has created.

Parents have a big responsibility and a big role to play in the proper upbringing of their children

Important Tips for Parents:-

Involve Your Child in Discussion

Youngsters at times feel neglected or left out in family matters.

Involving them in an important discussion makes them feel empowered.

It makes them feel that their opinion matters in the family.

Make them Exercise, Yoga

Doing some form of exercise or yoga is good for the body & mind.

It calms the body & mind and the person feels fresh and vitalized.

Any form of exercise will only give results by doing it on a regular basis. It is also important to enjoy what you are doing.

Professional Help

If the youngster is getting uncontrollable and is not stable in his or her life.

The important thing is to take him to a doctor or counselor.

Who can understand his problem and give him the right medication to make him feel better?

Arrange Get-together

The more your teenage son /daughter meets people.

The more it will be better for them to come out of their own shell.

A get-together is a good way to connect with people and talk about everything.

The more the conversation they have with people the better it will be.

Take suicide melodrama

Anything said like “I want to Die” Or “ I am hopeless” should be immediately dealt with.

It is important to understand why the person is saying this and change his thought.

If these things are not addressed it will only result in loss of life.

Share your thoughts

It is important for parents to make the children aware that he is not alone to be sad or feeling depressed.

Every person goes through tough times. Parents need to assure that these tough times won’t last forever.

Through counseling or consulting a doctor, he can become happy in his life again.

Counseling takes time & effort

Your child should understand that it will take little time & effort for him to heal & recover. He needs to be confident of his complete recovery.

Outside Factors Making Miserable

There are many factors in a person’s life to make him give up on himself.

They could Abuse in college, Peer pressure, Break-up, Insult in public, Etc.

If the person has gone through these things and is not able to share these things with family members.

He needs to visit a counselor for giving the right direction.

I hope it is helping someone by reading this article. Please leave ur comments below for my learning

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