On the day of the annual school year, another group of children will carry their small schoolbags and enter the kindergarten to experience the whole (stranger) new (student) life.
It was originally a happy thing for the baby to go to kindergarten, which showed that his baby had grown up, but his parents were always not happy. They were not only worried that the child would eat, sleep, dress and go to the toilet in the kindergarten, but also worried that the child would not adapt to the new environment and could not integrate into the kindergarten collective.
For children, they suddenly entered a strange kindergarten from a familiar home, surrounded by unknown people, and their parents were not around. Their inner fear and uneasiness can be imagined.
Parents’ worries, coupled with children’s fears, send children to kindergarten, just like a [where will you go] drama.
Do you have to go through such a [parting drama] to send your children to kindergarten? Is there no way for children to easily adapt to kindergarten?
The most effective way to make children easily adapt to kindergarten is to make preparations in advance.
Do the following 6 suggestions well so that it is no longer difficult for the baby to adapt to kindergarten.
STEP 1 Teach your children to express their ideas
Many children are taken care of very well at home at ordinary times, and their parents also know their children very well. When the child [hum] twice, their parents will know whether he wants to drink water or go to the toilet. With a small finger, they will know whether he wants biscuits or which toy he wants.
However, in kindergarten, it is difficult for teachers to know what children want to do only by [hum] and using their fingers.
Therefore, parents should consciously train their children to express their ideas in language before their children go to kindergarten.
Parents should [pretend to be stupid] properly. Even if they already understand the meaning of their children’s [hum] or actions, they should pretend that they do not understand them. They should gradually guide their children to express them in words, from single words to short sentences, and then to long sentences, to achieve their goals step by step.
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In addition to expressing needs, children should also be taught how to deal with difficulties and how to help others.
In this way, when you get to kindergarten, you don’t have to worry that the teacher doesn’t understand the child’s thoughts.
2. Preparation of basic life skills
At home, it is often several adults who take care of a child, but in kindergarten, they become a teacher who has to take care of several children. After all, one’s energy is limited and one may not be able to take care of every child.
Let children learn some basic life skills in advance, such as eating with spoons, drinking water with cups, washing hands and mouths, going to the toilet, wearing shoes and socks, etc., which can make the process of adapting to kindergarten much easier.
After half a year old, you can learn to drink water from a cup, about one year old, you can gradually teach your children to eat by themselves, and about two years old, you can go to the toilet.
Parents must not deprive their children of their ability to learn in the name of care.
3. Adjust the work and rest time
In kindergartens, the time for eating, sleeping and playing games is fixed every day, but this schedule may be different from the children’s work and rest time at home.
If the child is used to going to bed at 2 or 3 pm at home, but the work and rest time in the kindergarten is one o’clock, the child may not be able to sleep when he is scheduled to sleep, and he may not be able to sleep when he is scheduled to play games.
The destruction of the habitual rhythm of life may also cause children to have various emotional problems.
Therefore, before the child goes to kindergarten, parents can start to adjust the child’s work and rest time one or two months or even longer in advance, so that the work and rest time at home is consistent with that of the kindergarten, which can reduce the child’s maladjustment after entering the kindergarten.
4. Preparation of daily necessities
Before sending the child to kindergarten, you can take the child to buy some daily necessities that you need, and give the child a certain choice when buying, so that the child can choose the desired colors, patterns and the like.
While preparing these daily necessities, tell the children the name of each thing and their use for what. With this process, help children psychologically accept the upcoming kindergarten life.
- Take the children to buy school supplies together, Such as small schoolbags, pencils, notebooks, etc. Children need quilts, pillows, Parents clean and dry in advance, And make the child’s unique mark, And then to the kindergarten, Let the child can smell the familiar smell to take a nap. Prepare a few sets of clothes and shoes for the child to wear in kindergarten. In addition to being clean and tidy, you should also pay attention to being easy to wear and take off without hindering activities. When sending the child to kindergarten, you should take an extra set of children’s clothes to the teacher, so that the child can replace them even if they get dirty.
5. Familiar with kindergarten environment
If conditions permit, parents can take time to take their children to visit the kindergarten in advance so that the children can feel the living environment in the future.
Take the children to know the teachers in the kindergarten and other children, be familiar with the living environment in the future, and tell the children that the teachers can be trusted and can find the teachers if they have what difficulties.
You can also take the child to the gate of the kindergarten when the child goes up and down the kindergarten and tell the child’s parents that they will take him to the kindergarten at what time and pick him up at what time.
The important thing is to let the children understand: it is not that parents do not want him to go to kindergarten, but they will pick him up when school is over.
6. Precautions before and after admission
Pick up the children on time and don’t be late.
In the first week when the child enters the kindergarten, especially in the first week of admission, parents must pick up the child from school on time.
We should convince our children that their parents will definitely come to pick them up when the time comes to help them relieve their anxiety in kindergarten.
However, parents must be careful not to promise [to be the first to pick up]. In case they cannot be the first to come, their children’s trust in their parents will decrease.
Be firm and don’t hesitate to say goodbye.
When sending the child to kindergarten, the child will be anxious, agitated and even crying because his parents leave. The parents can set up a farewell ceremony with the child, hug the child and tell him that he will pick him up on time after school, and then wave to each other to say “goodbye”.
When saying goodbye to the child, the tone of parents must be gentle and firm. Don’t let the child not cry but the adults shed tears first.
After saying goodbye, parents should resolutely turn around and leave. Don’t hide aside and look around just because they can’t rest assured of their children. In case they are seen by their children, the hard-built farewell ceremony will lose its meaning.
Don’t sneak away just because you don’t want to face the crying of the child when you leave.
Once a child finds out that his parents are missing, he will only be more frightened and even feel that his parents do not want him. In the future, when getting along with his parents, he will always be worried that [his parents will suddenly disappear], and he can only keep an eye on his parents and entangle them.
Firmly send to school, don’t soften your heart.
Children sometimes express that they don’t want to go to kindergarten and even protest to go to kindergarten by crying. Parents cannot promise not to go to kindergarten just because their children cry.
This will make children feel [crying is useful]. As long as they cry, they can not go to kindergarten, which will make it more difficult to adapt to kindergarten.
When children do not want to go to kindergarten, parents must stick to the bottom line. Only by insisting on going to kindergarten can children better integrate into kindergarten life.