It allowed them to get close and know their needs and desires
Quarantine "restores" the relationships of parents with their children of determination
Maryam Al Hammadi: Need and compulsion reveal to parents hidden aspects of their children's nature, feelings, abilities and needs.
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Parents found themselves forced to take care of family affairs and assume the daily responsibility of children, due to the circumstances of the Corona pandemic.
Despite the difficulty of the experience, it provided them with an unconventional opportunity to approach their children a sufficient distance to know their needs and desires, which allowed them to rebuild the relationship between them and their children, or to restore it in a new and different way.
The experience of the fathers was reported to «Emirates Today» Director of the Department of People of Determination at the Community Development Authority in Dubai, Maryam Al Hammadi, in light of the parents ’unwillingness to speak to the media, and at a time when laws and regulations ensure that the authority and the media respect the privacy of information related to names.
Al-Hammadi explained that the shift in the role of fathers and their carrying out tasks related to their children was a prerequisite for enabling children of determination to continue receiving treatment and rehabilitation sessions during the period of health isolation to combat Corona, as it was necessary for parents to participate in following instructions and help children implement them, whether During the implementation of sessions or during their lives throughout the day.
She continued that the need and the necessity to carry out this task revealed to parents hidden aspects in the nature of their children, their feelings, abilities and needs, as they realized the importance of their role and their deep and continuous closeness to their children, and the effect of this on the balance of the child's psychological state and increasing the level of his benefit from treatment, but also in improving The psychological state of the parents themselves as a result of the change in their perceptions and their relationship with their children.
Al-Hammadi reported that some parents were far from their children because of daily busyness and career work, so they exempted themselves from the tasks required of them, not only towards the child of people of determination, but also towards the children and the family in general, leaving all these hardships on the mother and the domestic helpers, while some The other parent was afraid to approach and deal with the child of the People of Determination, because he did not accept the idea of disability from the psychological and social point of view.
Al-Hammadi emphasized that the degree of tenderness and affection among fathers is very large, and not less than the level of affection of the mother, but that sometimes requires intervention and support to direct the emotion towards a balanced and healthy relationship between them and their children, especially in families that have children of people of determination, as they suffer from pressures. Life and a great psyche.
She pointed out that rebuilding the relationship between children of determination and their fathers on new foundations, based on harmony, daily communication, exchange of feelings, and the sharing of activities and hobbies, also plays a great role in restoring and reviving the relationship between the father and all family members, especially the wife, in a way that creates rapprochement, sympathy and love between the two partners. As a result of their sharing the great responsibility required in caring for the children of people of determination, as well as bearing the many other life and professional burdens.
The Community Development Authority in Dubai implements care and rehabilitation programs for people of determination who have physical and mental disabilities, including autism, Down Syndrome, as well as multiple disabilities.
The "Dubai Child Development Center" affiliated to the authority provides a diagnostic service for cases and a consulting service required to transfer cases to other specialized centers. The center also implements early intervention programs for children from birth to six years old as part of the authority’s implementation of plans aimed at making children’s educational and social integration successful.
- Parents perform tasks related to children was a condition to enable them to continue to receive treatment.