Challenge the movement restrictions
Restrictions on their mobility were denying them access to various
resources, reducing their ability of develop their own independent
strategies of coping and survival and also preventing them from
accessing other relational support. However, in confronting these
restrictions children did not react with resignation. Participants all
displayed creative strategies in order to challenge these imposed
limitations, thereby regaining control over their environment and
reducing feelings of helplessness and isolation. These included using
social and physical aspects of their environment as secure bases to
explore around, which persuaded their families to give them more
freedom.
“This street in red, but it is not always dangerous. Only when soldiers
come. From here [baker shop] I can stop and check, that place is
safe and the man very nice. If they are coming, I can go to the mosque
taking this second road. I don’t want to stay in the house every time
they come.” (Fasayel, 11, male).