What Is The Point Of Granting The Wishes Of Hospitalized Children?
Children in hospital see how their lives change dramatically, often suddenly. They lose their (much needed) routine of going to school, playing with their friends, doing their extracurricular activities, etc. In the end, it almost seems that they cease to be children.
Can we do something to restore the illusion to them? One of the most widely used proposals for this purpose are vow programs for hospitalized children. Do these programs simply give them back the illusion or do they offer more benefits for children?
Granting the wishes of hospitalized children also helps the family
The reality of hospitalized children is not only that they are in pain, but also that their families are having a hard time and entering a dynamic of anxiety and sadness due to concerns about the child. It is nevertheless very important that parents, even if they feel bad, are able to offer emotional support to their children .
These wish-granting programs can help family members achieve this goal. First, it facilitates communication between parents and their child when the latter tells them what his desire is. Planning it together will help them talk about the illness and the child’s life. We will thus be able to strengthen family ties.
In addition, it will serve as a tool for one to communicate to others what they think and what they feel about the situation they have to face. So that the process of acceptance of the disease will be favored. But not only that, these programs also provide a respite from all that hospitalization entails. In other words, they help families feel they are once again enjoying spending time together.
Making wishes come true: one more tool to help hospitalized children regain the illusion
When we adults are hospitalized, we feel that our life is disrupted. Children feel the same. They are at a point in their life where it is essential that they feel loved and integrated into the environment around them, and hospitalization alters all of this.
It is therefore normal for hospitalized children to feel different from others about their illness. Spending so much time in a medical environment can cause them to stop feeling like children, since they have left out the typical activities of this stage of development.
It is indeed fundamental that children have hope. And this is precisely where pediatric vow programs in hospitals have a role to play. Desire brings them hope that what they want can come true. These programs will inspire them with the illusion and the desire to live, so fundamental to keep moving forward.
Hospitalized children and the importance of increasing positive emotions
The emotional reality of hospitalized children is often inundated with negative emotions. Anxiety, anger or sadness can be very present in the daily life of children, which they often do not know how to deal with.
It is normal that issues of self-esteem and insecurity also appear as children are aware that this process they have to face differentiates them from others, that they no longer follow their daily routine and that they can no longer play with their friends as before.
It is therefore im wearing taking into account the positive emotions that are generated during the fulfillment of desires, which balance the emotional balance of these children. They thus manage to improve their emotional well-being and to feel again like the children they are. And, more importantly, it helps them reduce their suffering and face the disease with more enthusiasm and optimism.
Our thoughts Thank you, mom and dad, for always being by my side, even if you can’t see it, thank you for creating such strong bonds that today seem undesirable …
