four children with special conditions in the family nucleus: honoring the merit of their parents
In this section I have decided to honor those parents who have at their mercy up to four special children, a rare but common occurrence, to be more specific, fulfilling my role as director of a special education institution in Venezuela, I interacted with a representative with four special children, one boy and three girls. In the same way, the same is extended to those parents who have two or three children who came into the world with some special condition.
This admiration for these parents is due to the many aspects that they have to put into practice on a daily basis, one of them being the task of taking them to the school where they study, which in many cases represents a great effort in relation to their awakening and making the children or adolescents the continuous habit in the mornings of their personal grooming, dressing, feeding, medication and everything that means the logistics that includes the ordering of school supplies. We can add being aware of any hyperactivity, convulsions or any rude act of spitting, hitting or kicking among themselves or even against their parents.
We must also value the fact that many parents fortunately have a means of transportation and even have the support of relatives or hire people to take these children to school, however there are many representatives who do not have the same luck because many do not have the necessary resources to comply with this daily routine, however they make the sacrifice of taking up to 2 public transport from their homes to the institutions, This represents a double effort of round trip, where each step counts from the moment they get on the transport, whose looks of the representatives have to multiply and be constant since the accumulation of people, the confinement, noise, climate can be a disturbing factor to the child, which can affect their behavior by releasing it or executing aggressive acts.
In this order of ideas it can be represented the possibility that many parents in the case of having four special children according to their age and condition have to take them to different schools which would represent a double effort that could be executed during the period of the school year. The routine does not end here, since it continues at home, which begins with orientations directed to the habit of ordering clothes, personal hygiene and lunch, which many times have to be applied directly with each individual child or adolescent. All this with their due supervision and constant repetition of the orders or indications.
At lunch time, the rhythm does not change since daily, whether it is breakfast or dinner, the rules of a good habit have to be repetitive, constant and even the parents have to be a guarantor of acting as a model before their children so that they observe the spoon, knife, fork, plate and glass in their continuous use. Throughout this process parents pray that there is not an unexpected act by one or two of them that has to do with convulsions, whining, aggressiveness, lack of appetite and finally with some act of "spoiled" or want to draw attention which threatens those parents who aspire to finish their routine to shower and take a well-deserved nap, and then go to their respective work obligations or simply stay at home. Afternoons and evenings are also conceived for parents as a space for constant guidance and supervision, which because of the condition of their children will be for life. There are many parents who spare no effort in practicing any recreational and even physical activity, in fact, guiding both parents at the disposal, one of them goes to the bakery, grocery store or market with one or two of them, possibly with the concern of not having an act of those that happen not only with the two who accompany him but also with those who stay at home.
At the moment of sleeping, the continuous orientations which many times are not given with precision and immediately but it usually happens something similar to what happens at breakfast and lunch, which is reduced to the spoiling of at least one of them during the course of the night at dawn many parents usually do not conciliate their dreams completely, that is to say that the brain does not receive with regularity the regenerative load that it needs as one of the most important and necessary organs of the human body what for the Parents can be reason for stress anxiety depression and other disorders caused by the daily effort and even practically the 24 hours of the day since there are parents who regularly supply to their children a medicine that touches them in the early morning.
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