Childhood stage.
Good Planning Makes a Good Home.
When talking about marriage, the childhood period can never be pushed aside. It is a part of human’s life that contributed a lot to marital life in general. This stage of life is a sensitive one. The stage at which everything around a child contributes so much to his growth, development, and life. They learn from everything that comes their ways, including the day-to-day attitude and other activities of their parents.
No wonder, some children will gather themselves and share family roles among themselves. Someone will be the father, another will take the role of a mother, while the others will act as the children. The one with the mother’s role will assemble things representing kitchen stencils and move to a corner, cooking for the family. In a little while, she will call on those who are the children to come and take their food. She will go and present the one for the father to the person representing the father in the scene as a mother.
This is what they learn through following and watching their parents doing every day.
If it is a family where the parents eat together, you will see the boy and the girl eating from the same plate.
Usually, they use pieces of paper to represent food and use a sheet of paper to represent a plate.
In another representation, if the children are from a family where there is always a dispute that even leads to assault, they will exhibit it. When you see the one representing the father shouting at the one who is the mother on the ground of a little delay or mistake, it would be cleared to you the kind of family he came from. It’s possible that is what plays out between his parents.
These, including others that we could not paint the pictures here, contribute to what the future of the children would be. They grow with what they see and practice in their families. As they grow to become teenagers, parents must watch what they do around the children, including kissing and intercourse. Even the kind of friends they move with and those who pay them visit.
This takes us to the next stage.
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