Bad Therapy Step 1 - telling kids to pay close attention to their feelings.
Children's emotions are some of the most if not the most irregular emotions you will come across.
One second they are fighting each other, the next they are laughing with each other.
Their reactions to what they see or how they feel about a situation is very inconsistent from one day to the next.
To tell your kids to constantly focus on their emotions is to destroy them internally.
Most of the time, most people are dealing with minor irritations, fatigue, stress, pain, or other minor discomforts.
Especially if they're in public school.
A kid who is reminded to constantly heed their feelings and evaluate their happiness will always find something wrong, and will think there is something wrong with them, requiring them to get help because they will realize that most of the time, they are not happy.
Even for you and me, are you happy right now? Literally, right now?
No, you're not because you don’t come to my website when you want to be happy!
The reality is, happiness is never the end goal for anything.
You will never find true happiness in this world, and you have to let your kids know that ultimate happiness comes in the afterlife in Jannah.
This life is but a deception that becomes more apparent as each day passes.
"Adults should be telling kids how imperfect and unreliable their emotions can be, Chentsova Dutton says. Very often, kids should be skeptical that their feelings reflect an accurate picture of the world and even ignore their feelings entirely. (Gasp!) You read that right: a healthy emotional life involves a certain amount of daily repression."