The smile is one of the most important features of people, one of the characteristics that makes a human being more or less charismatic. Through the smile you can show all kinds of feelings, affection, affection, sympathy or support. Receiving a smile from a person, known or unknown, can help you change a negative mood.
For all these reasons and many others, it is essential that smiles exist in families. Children are capable of feeling and receiving the negativity that an adult transmits, especially from their parents. Everyone has problems, bad days when all you want to do is get to bed and not see anyone else. But children should not live in a tense and negative environment, smiles are a fundamental part of their development.
Today marks the World Smile Day, a day dedicated to joy, kindness and cordiality. This commemorative day of an act as natural as the smile, aims to make people around the world aware of the importance of the smile, the therapeutic effect it causes in humans.
Children must live in an environment of happiness
One of the best sensations in the life of a recent parent is the first smile of your baby. There is something healing in a little boy's smile, which makes you forget tiredness and problems. The laughter of some children playing and enjoying childhood, evoke those days of innocence where all your obligations were to play and have fun.
Fathers and mothers have among their most important tasks that of provide a happy environment, where smiles, laughter and laughter abound. Because there is nothing more important for a child than sharing happy moments with the family.
Your family's health can improve with smiles
The act of smiling is innate, is part of the involuntary acts of the human being. All people have the ability to perform this primitive act, although sometimes due to circumstances, little by little it fades. Children smile less and less, they hardly have time to do it between so many obligations and responsibilities. You may think such a simple gesture may not have such relevance for health, but there are scientific studies that support this statement:
- The smile helps develop empathy. Empathy it is one of the most important characteristics in terms of the development of social skills.
- Laughter helps strengthen the immune system. Laughter increases the production of T cells in the blood and thus increases oxygenation.
- Improves the function of the lymphatic system. Helping to eliminate toxins and thus reducing the possibility of suffering from allergies and cardiovascular diseases.
- Help you relax. Laughter causes endorphins to be released, which are hormones produced by the body to produce a feeling of well-being, relaxation and happiness.
Laugh every day, infect your children and laugh as a family
Even if you don't feel like it, even if you have to force a smile and provoke a fake laugh, the brain does not distinguish between sincere laughs and those that are not. Your brain will automatically proceed to release those chemicals that produce the feeling of happiness. In this way you will produce the same effect on your children, releasing tensions and creating happy family moments and memories.
Today the day of the smile is commemorated, do not miss the opportunity to smile at the people that you will cross on the street, in your daily life. Maybe your smile is the medicine that the soul needed from the person who received it, because there is nothing more to be thankful for than receiving a smile for its own sake. Take advantage of this and every day to celebrate cordiality and good humor.
Give smiles to your children and enjoy life in family, with friends and with the people around you.