To date, almost in every district of the city, mothers can find so-called "developmentals," and even non-singular.
They became multidisciplinary, offer a variety of different programs and began to conduct joint activities of the participants.
The centers are called up with the help of free trial sessions, they shout about popular methods and praise their pedagogues. And succumbing to the common opinion, you begin to convulsively collect feedback and ask where it is better to give the child. Is it worth it to do this at all? Are developmental centers important or is it enough to study at home with parents?
We will try to answer all questions.
The main advantages of developing centers
To begin with, we should clarify that we are not talking about any lessons of a narrow focus. English, for example, or chess.
It is also not about preparing a kindergarten, when the kids themselves are engaged with the teacher, which is certainly very useful and contributes to better adaptation of the child in the future.
We'll talk about classes together with smam, but in developing centers. How much such meetings are necessary and why "home development" may not be enough.
The first undoubted plus of the developing center is the teacher. Not every mother, no matter how wonderful she is, knows how to become a good teacher. In the center, as a rule, it is the teacher-psychologist who is trying to find an approach to every child and, thanks to his experience in working with children, finds him, sometimes faster than the mother.
After all, Mom, she is so kind and kind, she wants to just play with her, and after all the main rule of employment is development. We take children there to develop, not to play. Mamamge sometimes lacks credibility, and simply desire or mood for developing games.
The second advantage is that the mother visits the similar centers with a child - this is the personal growth of the parent himself. It is one thing to read educational literature and watch video programs, and to observe the work of the teacher quite the other. Performing all tasks together with a smile, my mother also learns to be more patient, smarter, calmer. And of course in the process of such exercises only the mutual understanding between mother and baby is improved.
Having gained experience in the classroom, it is possible during the illness or the inability to attend them for various reasons, continue to deal with the child at home, knowing in what way it is better to develop the child.
The third plus, and for most of the parents (and children), the most significant is the collective.
It is much more interesting to study together with Masha and Vanya than the house itself.
And if you consider that the group raznogovozrastnye, and up to two years each month full of new skills, then kiddies will play for each other, imitate, try to repeat those tasks that the home is simply too lazy to do.
Well, together, it's much more fun and faster.
It is more fun to learn the colors. And it does not matter what the mom shows and tells at home on the dice and other toys. Here, even the one-year-old kid will want to repeat for the older color of the rainbow.
It's more fun to ask for a pot. In this case, it's more difficult of course, but it's been noticed for a long time that in children's nurseries children refuse to fasten diapers when everyone is asking for a pot.
Pay attention when choosing a club, the number of children in the group. It is desirable that they were no more than 5-6 people. Since adding parents and a teacher here, we will get a lot of people in a closed room, which, in principle, will not benefit anyone.
The fourth plus of developing centers is the use of different methods of early development. Of course, mothers daily something to teach their children, and think up tales of enlightening and tell something every second, but there are certain methods of teaching, which are quite successfully proven themselves. The most famous of them: the method of Montessori, Doman, Danilov.
Many famous cubes of Nikitin. And if you can do the cards for yourself, but the same set of cubes will be quite expensive.
In developing centers, most often, of course, such materials are present. Although there are some in which used materials. You can make the same houses.
How to choose the right development center?
In some centers, training takes place on one specific method. There are (their overwhelming majority) centers with a mixed type. Less common are those in which there is a program. To argue that any of them is better than the rest is impossible, pokazy and your child will not try it on yourself.
Be sure to visit with your son or daughter several clubs. The fact is that a good teacher and the atmosphere in one center can replace all the expensive materials in another.
The child should be calm, but at the same time it is quite active.
One lesson is usually hard to judge, but it happens that enough is enough to understand that you have found the perfect place for you and the baby.
Many development centers recruit groups from 8 months. The most popular, however, from 1.5 years. In this age, all the children are already well walking, they are easier to interest, you can perform more tasks and they are already waiting for a meeting with each other.
By the way, we find another fifth plus-discipline. Developmental activities can be a reward for the child. He will try and make you more likely to get ready for the club.
Thanks to classes, it's easier to establish a regime. After all, when there is a subscription and the child is waiting for them, there will be no excuses in the form of an unprepared dinner, washing and all the rest. You will also begin to grow to be in time to be in the center.
Developmental centers - the first step in preparation for the kindergarten
As a rule, the nearer the time of the landing, the more the developing classes are modified. There is more and more independence, the presence of the mother is not so important and gradually all flows into a somewhat different direction - preparation for classes without a mother.
Such activities are very important for a small researcher. The child learns to make decisions himself, to serve himself, to seek help from educators, if necessary. But before this moment, the presence of a native person beside inspires a little man to believe himself and helps to develop much faster. Therefore, regardless of whether you are engaged with your child at home or visit development centers with him, try to spend as much time with him as possible. After all, strangely enough, it is these children, with whom parents often together, grow up independent and responsible.
Even if you are convinced that you can perfectly develop a child at home, we still allow ourselves to recommend visiting several classes in developing centers to discover something new and see how the child behaves in the team, not during games on the court, not just vhost, and during the development of games.
It is important not to set yourself the goal to grow a genius. We, as parents, should help our children develop the potential that exists in them. Not violent methods, but a game, in class, in communication. Various ways, both at home and in the developing centers.