Raisers Contact Center FREE . Bright Ideas . . On-Line TM . The Best Negativity and Apathy Busters . Many youth are entrenched in negativity, hopelessness and apathy.
Some common interventions can actually cause some kids to become even more negative.
Negativity and apathy are seldom random events. Despair is a normal reaction that can blunt pain, but sometimes adults focus on attempting to ease the hopelessness in the belief that before the child will create and work for dreams and hopes , she must leave negativity behind. Attempting to take away the buffer that despair provides can cause some children to become more determined that ever to be nobody. Here are some interventions that expose the child to other possible futures without attempting to take away the defensive despair. The despair will diminish or persist as the child's life experiences warrant.