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).