Stress-relieving mud throwing

The great and almost daily heavenly blessing causes many troubles in the country. There was serious material damage due to heavy rainfall, and we also learned that a storm had already claimed many lives.

However, mud, which is a problem for many, can get another projection if we look at it as a toy. In a world where young children already have a smartphone in their hands, the presence of wifi makes them happy, indeed it is sometimes necessary to pull them out of their own, technology-dominated world. In this, adults and parents have a very big role to play. Let’s just remember our own childhood, when we had a quarter as many toys as our own toddlers, and yet we remember it as a beautiful time. Fewer games could have been a bigger experience because most of the time we played outdoors and did it with siblings, cousins, neighbors, or even wild strangers.

It is our turn to bring into the lives of our children the many good things we have collected as children. Mud is just right for this. Even if we allow the kids to run through the biggest puddle to jump in it. It’s also important to experience how good it feels to be free, barefoot in nature. Playing with mud in the mud has a stress-relieving effect, which can reduce children’s anxiety.

As a child, my dad taught me how to make a mud pop. A hole was drilled into the rectangular mud mass kneaded from the mud with a fist, and then cut to the ground. We played for hours stuffed with mud, and so can our children, because it develops fine motor skills. Mud throwing also provides the experience of allowing children to mess with themselves and their clothes with impunity. By throwing mud, they can get rid of the tension and anger lurking in them, which means that we can also consider mud as a natural sedative.

The shaping of the mud, the play in it, affects several senses at once. It can already make children feel good that their parents are sending them to the mud to play with the mud. It’s finally not a problem if they get dirty, and that can give them a feeling of liberation they may not have really experienced before.

Just as it is given to you, so do you provide your child with the opportunity and experience of sarcasm.

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(Source: marmalade.co.hu | pictures: pixabay.com)