Having a mentally challenged child in the family is obviously a additional responsibility and a challenge itself. When we say additional, that means there is already existing responsibility to be taken care of. When we say family, it has intra family factors which involve family members, then inter family factors and obviously we have social inter action as well. So having a mentally challenged child attracts additional interactive problems. In almost all events parents are involved. Mother bares maximum family burden. So at Sandnya we observed that many times for parents it becomes very difficult to manage this stress. There could be many ways to reduce or minimize this stress.
- Rev. Swami Pitambaranand addressing parents
- Parents of our students
We organized a spiritual discourse of Rev. Swami Pitambaranand of Ramkrishna Kuti, Rishikesh.
One such meeting was organized on 9th March'13 at Wadegaonkar Hall, Blind Relief Society, South Ambazari Road, Nagpur. This discourse was for one hour and Swamiji tried to explain to parents how they can change the approach in encountering a difficult situation. He stressed that, it is our mental perspective that matters in challenging or critical situations. He emphasized that for GOD every one is same. There is no factor of partiality. Similarly, since this special child has come to you, it means that GOD feels that you are competent to take care of this special child. So on account of this special child let us not get frustrated. Let us learn to remain calm as much as possible and almost for all the time. Accepting all situations as they come and that too calmly is really means we believe in GOD in true sense.
Swamiji tried to tell them that they should not feel discriminated, every human has some or the other problems. And it is our capacity to face such critical situations which determines our faith in the Almighty.
This initiative is all about helping parents to coup up with this typical situation of having a mentally challenged child.
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