The beginning of school life - excitement and joy or fear and stress for the child? It directly depends on you. September 1 is an exciting day for everyone - both children and their parents. But in fact, seriously think about approaching this day you need much earlier. So that the child would go to the first class for the first time with a happy face and a calm heart.
Even in kindergarten, the child begins to comprehend the basics of discipline, gets used to the regime, learns independence, accuracy and diligence. At least, the Garden program is designed for this. Then the whole thing is for the caregivers and the parents themselves. Often you can meet such an opinion: "What the baby is now touching - let him walk. Go to school - quickly learn everything. Where to go. " This can only be called irresponsibility and even stupidity on the part of parents. And then pay the children themselves. And the price is often oh how great - frustrated nerves, planted eyes, reduced to zero immunity. And it was only worthwhile to correctly behave with the child before the school, prepare it, set it up, teach it. And try not to go to extremes at the same time.
Many parents make a mistake, causing fear in the child before the school. They frighten him, that he must play less and work more and more, so that later not be the last pupil in the school, so that he is not mocked or laughed at. This is one of the extremes that parents of future first-graders resort to. The child forms in itself, if not disgust, then fear of this word "school", which then it will be difficult for him to cope with. The best way to avoid this is to talk to the child about the school, without tying this word only with difficulty, discipline and training, but also with pleasant emotions. He must understand that the school is a place where, in addition to studying, he will meet new friends, they will both have fun and feel good together. The methods of teaching to show the school as the "cradle of terror" are extremely erroneous and do not lead to anything good.
The child needs motivation, not intimidation. It is necessary to prepare in advance for the fact that for the first time in the first class the baby will go with excitement and trembling. Some children have this excitement so strong that they can not cope with it on their own. There are sedatives that will not harm the baby, but will help him cope with trembling and trembling. But in fact, fear on the first school day is not the biggest problem. Worse, if the child is afraid during the whole time before going to school. What to do? Try to turn everything into a game. Equip a school classroom in the room, seat your dolls or soft toys, place beautifully different pencils, pens, spread out colorful books. The child perceives everything literally: bright and colored - means, cheerful and fearless. Let you for the first time be a teacher. The child will definitely like this game. As soon as he himself asks to be a teacher - he is ready, he was able to overcome his fear.
Of course, the first-graders who are already able to read and count are much more confident. The child is better adapted to the school curriculum, he is more easily perceived by him. But it is very wrong to load the child all at once. When a child goes to the first class, being able to read in a foreign language and solve problems from a fourth-grade program, this does not give him any guarantee for successful education in the future. Unfortunately, more often it is just the opposite. The child goes to school together with children who are much behind him in terms of luggage knowledge. But the teacher will not come up with a separate program for him. He will start learning the same way as everyone does - from the alphabet, with learning the numbers. Can you imagine how a small "child prodigy" will feel in this situation? At best, he will be bored. At worst, he will hate school and teachers, and "stupid" classmates. This is not rare. Think about this properly before you train your child in all the subjects of the school curriculum at once.
Before the start of the school year, you must change the child's room. Put a desk at the window, lay out books, notebooks on the shelf, hang a schedule of lessons on the wall (let it be empty for now). Remove unnecessary toys, so that the room does not resemble more the game center. This is the room of the pupil, the student, and he must feel it himself. Usually children are happy to take up the reshuffle in their room, realizing that now they have become more mature and independent. This is very flattering to the child, inspires confidence in him.
For the first time in the first class will have to oh how much to buy. Beginning from the costume, ending with the stationery. And you also need to do this with the child. Children usually like the process of buying notebooks, pens, books and other small things. This mentally prepares him for thinking about school, increases his desire to go there soon.
For the holiday you will need a beautiful bouquet of flowers, which must be prepared in advance. Do not buy too complex and voluminous bouquet, which will interfere with the child or too allocate it to the background of other children. Choose something simple and stylish to demonstrate respect for the teacher.
The first day in school is emotions that we remember all our lives. Give your child a chance to remember this day with a smile, not with a shudder. All in your hands.