“Love cannot be explained. It’s something like that, which comes from you don’t know where and suddenly grabs you.”
Describing the feeling of love in this way would perhaps relieve some parents, who are very bothered by the idea of explaining it to their young children.
But it is not certain that the words of the song performed by the legendary lover who was Édith Piaf shed much light on them... But
"
it is important to talk about emotions
in general and your own as a parent",
indicates Vincent Henry, psychiatrist and co-author of
100 ideas to support the emotions of children and adolescents
(Tom Pousse).
“
This is how a child can name what happens to him.”
But how do we go about explaining this feeling that we have a hard time describing to ourselves?
So, what is love?
“The answers are both difficult and simple,”
thinks Vincent Henry.
We can first make the distinction between love for a sister, a brother, one's parents, or one's lover.
We will explain…
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