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Patricia Ochejeno Student @ University of Cross River State • Port Harcourt • 2 weeks, 5 days ago
<p>A home should be where u feel safe not where u fight to o survive.</p><p>I really don't know why believing children I hard. Why will a child make up a story as big as that. I know that kids are quite imaginative and so they joke a lot.</p><p>But there's a limit to their joke</p><p>I think that we dismiss kids too much. We use words like 'you're a kid'. Forgetting that they're humans and so have feelings</p><p>If a little change is detected in their behavior, don't just dismiss it. Find out what's wrong</p>
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Thoughtbyk Student @ Adekunle Ajasin university Ondo state • Osogbo, Nigeria • 2 weeks, 3 days ago

make them feel safe enough to tell us. 🤍

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Thoughtbyk Student @ Adekunle Ajasin university Ondo state • Osogbo, Nigeria • 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Exactly. 🥺❤️ I think that's one of the biggest things we need to change stopping ourselves from dismissing children simply because they're children. Being young doesn't mean their feelings aren't real or that what they're saying doesn't matter.

And I agree, a change in behaviour shouldn't always be brushed aside as “it's just a phase.” Sometimes that's the only way a child knows how to communicate that something is wrong. We need to pay attention, ask questions, and most importantly

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