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DHAKA, Oct 24, 2025 (BSS) - Parents should be careful about their children's mental health by creating a supportive home environment, maintaining open communication, and regularly assessing their child's well-being, experts said.
 
 This includes nurturing a strong parent-child relationship, ensuring consistent routines, and encouraging healthy social connections. If concerns arise, parents should partner with their child's doctor for screenings and professional guidance, and seek help without stigma if needed. 
 
Most parents do not pay attention to the mental growth of their children, they also said.
 
In their opinion, if a child is not growing up mentally, they will ultimately become a burden for the family, society and country. So, parents should be careful about the mental health of their children.
 
They said there are two parts in health - physical and mental. After birth, a child generally grows physically and mentally.
 
But the parents usually look after the physical condition of their children ignoring their mental health. 
 
But to make a healthy nation, mental growth of a child is an imperative. The contribution of parents and family is crucial for the mental development of children.
 
If a parent is more conscious, their children will be fit mentally and be a better citizen. 
 
But generally the parents in the country are always conscious about the physical fitness of their children. And they always take care of their children's food, clothes and treatment. These things help a child to be fit physically. 
 
And the parents are indifferent to the mental growth of their children.
 
After birth, a child first gets close to its mother. Then the child gets acquainted with their father, family members, teachers and friends. The children grow up mentally taking lessons from the behaviors they get from others.
 
The children always ask questions to others - what's this, what's that? Answers to these questions teach them mentally a lot. 
 
But many parents or relatives feel disturbed by the curiosities of a child. They have a tendency to stop their children from questing. It hampers the mental growth of a child. Such behavior can be a barrier for mental growth.
 
The child is learning from their families and surrounding atmosphere. If a mental base will create in childhood, they would be mentally strong and sufficient. And they will turn the resources of a country. Friendly atmosphere is the best way to teach the children from inside and outside of the home.
 
Adib is the only son of his parents. Mother and father of Adib were served as teacher of a college. But Adib's father died when he was only 13. Later, Adib became a drug addict.
 
Negative behavior of his mother is the main reasons to become drug addict of Adib, said the experts.
 
Nadia was born in a middle-income family where her father is a jobholder and mother is a housewife. But Nadia did not complete her education though she has all facilities to achieve higher education.
 
The experts said the conjugal brawl is the vital reason behind this case.
 
Children's atmosphere should be functioned orderly and in a disciplined way. People should not do any vindictive, spiteful, cruel acts before children, because childhood is the main stair to learn. 
 
If they learn any foul in the primary stage of their life, it will be havoc for the rest of their life.