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Let your child enjoy his daydreams…
If you child often expresses a desire to be on his own, don’t be concerned. Between the ages of 3 and 6, this is a normal part of a child’s development.
The time a child spends daydreaming encourages creativity. This world where dream and reality come together is a normal and very important stage in a child’s development. He creates his own characters, places and stories that belong just to him.
Children have a need for time like this. It gives them the chance to escape, to experience feelings and to deal with life’s irritations. It will help your child to excel at school or become first rate at sport. He will also enjoy identifying with characters from films and books. Your child is simply learning how to experience his own reality. Which is why you must respect his quiet “alone” time.
It is important to give him time to daydream and to play before he has to face up to the reality of the adult world. Sooner or later your child will discover this reality. He will stop believing in Father Christmas by himself. There’s no need to hurry things along, life’s difficult enough as it is….
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