Understanding Hyperactivity

Many of us may feel that ‘my child does not get tired at all’. My son or my daughter is hyperactive and has too much energy! I need to do something about it, and maybe I should take my child to a doctor and check if everything is normal. To all the concerned parents, I want to tell you that this amount of energy is absolutely normal.

Let’s take a look at your life. What are the various fronts on which you are currently working? A day starts and ends, a week starts and ends, and a month starts and ends. Now, out of those 24 hours, seven days, or 30 or 31 days, what are the different tasks on which we spend our energy regularly? If you recall these fronts, you will also remember something that your parents must have said to you or must be saying to you often- “we also worked very hard, and we also had a lot of pressure and tension at our jobs, but they were not like your pressures, we were never as tensed as you are!” The way we face more stress and tension than our parents, our children will face more stress and tension than us! Which means they will spend energy on more fronts than us.

I am telling you this because I want to give you good news! If your children are hyperactive, then the good news is that they are getting ready for 15 or 20 years from today! According to the situations that will be created 15 or 20 years from today, the children will have to spend energy on a lot of fronts, may that be their home life, office life, business, learning new courses to keep up-to-date, or something else! They are hyperactive now because the universe has sent them by giving them the energy they will need in the future to excel on all fronts. This ‘hyperactive’ energy will feel normal when we will compare it 15 or 20 years from now.

The children that you feel are hyperactive are not hyperactive; they are normal because they are getting ready for the future! So, treat their current energy as normal and encourage them to treat the energy as their strength. Treating it as a strength will help their and your future to become peaceful.