Experts Explain, Children Who Have Hobbies Avoid Hazardous Behavior

YOGYAKARTA Childhood needs to be filled with fun activities as well as foster children's growth and development. Both physical, psychological, mental, and intellectual development. Children who have hobbies, turn out to be very meaningful for the future. According to his childhood story, family and adult therapist David Schwartz, LMFT., he has a hobby of reading comics. Because he has to buy his own comics, he has a strategy of one time to save so he can buy the latest comics.

Of course, this frugal strategy was born based on the initiative developed from a cultured hobby. According to Schwartz, reported by Psychology Today, Thursday, September 5, by having a favorite to do something, a child will focus on this positive desire. For example, exercising, reading comics, collecting figures, robotics, and art activities.

As long as these hobbies are not dangerous, good for children. They can focus on something positive and fill their energy and time. Parents don't need to understand why a child likes something, just knows that they like it. Children who have this hobby are more likely to avoid dangerous behavior. Such as drugs, alcohol, and other negative behavior.

The hobby of helping children devote energy and enjoy their time. When a child starts to be interested in something that fulfills his mind and triggers his imagination, it can help them stay focused on such activities and stay away from disturbances that lead to bad decisions. Children who turn to dangerous hobbies may have serious problems and trauma in their lives. They may also just get bored or not have anything else important in life for them. Lack of direction and focus can also make children vulnerable to bad traits.

Of course having a hobby does not guarantee that a child will not make bad choices in their activities or interact with other people who influence bad things. However, by pursuing a hobby, children have positive activities in their lives. Well, what parents need to make sure, children must be safe in their activities in pursuing hobbies. Get to know your children's interests and what they like, then encourage them to pursue this.

It's important to know that children have the desire to have something they're trying to do themselves, not by their parents. This is because children are in the process of developing their own identity. The establishment of this identity helps explain why almost every generation produces innovation. For example musicians with their own music genre creations. That means, giving children freedom of choice of activities, entertainment, and hobbies help stimulate their minds and have something to like.