Summary
Many young children experience loneliness. Parents may be making this problem worse by providing their youngsters with too many things rather than focusing on interpersonal relationships. In a recent session with an 8-year-old girl, she complained about feeling sad and lonely. She had wonderful parents, did well in school, and was involved in ballet piano, and soccer. She interacted with many children, but reported having no really close friends. Even when she was with a group of kids, she felt alone. The essence of loneliness is a sense of being emotionally disconnected from other people. We feel apart, separate and isolated. We live in our own world, a place that no one really enters or understands. Being around other people may help, but sometimes may make the problem more intense. Seeing how others appear to be happy and content may make us feel even more alienated.
We typically think of such feelings as belonging more to the world of late adolescence and adulthood, not the carefree playground of young children. However, children have these same feelings; they just express them in different ways.See the full content of this document
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How to Help a Lonely Child
How can you tell if you child is lonely? Such children typically spend hours in front of the TV, computer or video games. Th...
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