Sense
of belonging
The feeling
of being accepted by others and most importantly by your family. If
a child feels like he is accepted and loved at home, he will find
it a lot easier to socialize and integrate into other groups.
Parents
hold the key to their child’s ability to relate to others. Creating
a family atmosphere where people share, participate, play and work
together reinforces the sense of the family as a group. Children are
made aware that participating means sharing the good and the less
good and that this is the base in order to be accepted in any context.
A good
instrument of cohesion and support can be to name one member of the
family to be the centre of attention for one day. This consists of
everyone talking to this person in a flattering way and the leader
choosing what they are going to eat that day, what games they are
going to play together, what they are going to talk about, etc.
In this
type of atmosphere, children learn how to be active, how to share,
support, contemplate their desires with the interest of the group
and go along with the rules and regulations of the group.