Sometimes the tasks of preschool educational institutions lead parents to a mild shock. First you need to prepare a portfolio, then draw up a scientific project, then write an abstract, or else come up with a family motto. What is it? New educational programs for a new generation or imitation of the Americans ?! If you recall the movies, then in all sports events entire families compete among themselves, shouting their own chants and speeches.
What is a motto?
Remember the expression: “Brevity is the sister of talent”? Thus, the term “motto” can be characterized, which is expressed in a short phrase that defines the main essence of thoughts and behavior of a particular group of people. The motto united a certain group of people. It could be expressed in writing, drawing, coat of arms, symbolism, where each sign could mean something.
Noble families had their distinctive signs and passed from family to family the family motto. In fact, he was a guide for all family members. His phrase contained a deep meaning and a characteristic feature of a whole kind. For example, the Sheremetyevs had the family motto: “God saves everything,” and the Stroganovs: “I will bring wealth to the Fatherland, I will leave a name for myself.”
Over time, the slogan began to be applied in competitions between organizations, work collectives, families, children, in sports, in children's camps. It has become a distinctive element of a certain group of people. For example, in the children's camp, the Akuna-Matata detachment chose the appropriate motto: “Live freely without worries every day for free.”
What is the motto of the family in Russia for?
In Europe, the slogan of collectives, families, institutions is a very common tradition. In Russia, such an innovation has appeared recently. Initially, the motto was used in television programs, then migrated to sports competitions, and now competitions are held on various topics with the idea of short and concise phrases.
Now in educational schools and kindergartens you need to come up with words of class, institutions, families. Why do we need a family motto for kindergarten? Typically, such an assignment is given on July 8, when Russians celebrate
Family, Fidelity, and Love
Day . This day they organize sports competitions or
contests for children and parents.
The family motto in Russia is also used as a tool by a psychologist and psychotherapist. The essence of this method is to characterize a family in different periods of life with a certain sentence, which can be thought up or taken from proverbs and sayings. For example, the phrases “Cancer, Swan and Pike” and “What does not kill us make us stronger” undoubtedly indicate difficulties.
You can’t do without a motto in sports
However, it is more common for Russians to use speech in sports. Its value is invaluable - you need to combine different team members into a single whole, direct their thoughts and actions in one direction, make them think in one direction.
During the test, speaking to oneself a “magic phrase” in such a team increases the chances of winning. This is due to the fact that the person who pronounces the sports motto feels how the forces of the team flow into him. This method in psychology is called "auto-suggestion."
In addition, at the time of failure and failure, the team chanting raises the spirit and helps in the last minutes to snatch victory out of the hands of rivals! But this is if the team is worried about each of its members, and all together go to the same goal.
The effect of the motto in sport can be compared with the battle cry of primitive people who hunted mammoths who are “infected” by courage from each other and get rid of fears. Sports competitions are held according to the same plan. Shouting out the sports motto of the family, the fans help to feel support and a surge of strength.
And in which contests will the family slogan come in handy?
Now in kindergartens contests for kids and their parents are planned for every holiday.
- The teacher conducts matinees for mothers and daughters with cooking contests, where the sweets they eat are eaten by all the kids.
- On February 23, a specialist in physical education can hold sports competitions among dads and sons.
- A psychologist or speech therapist can conduct open competitive classes with intellectual tasks, where a motto is also required.
- General street competitions among families and groups of a kindergarten of a sports or labor nature. To make it more fun for children to clean up the territory of a preschool educational institution, chants and chants are also invented.
Such competitions can be mobile, where all participants play a role, or “theoretical”, where work is carried out at home, and the finished result is brought to kindergarten. So, the family’s motto, children usually come up with their parents at home, and then portrayed in family heraldry.
What is the meaning of the slogan for the family itself?
For Europeans and Americans, the family motto is a kind of association of relatives and separation from other families. They even have regular family sports contests. For Russians, family attitudes come first, not a public verbal description.
If you come up with a motto for contests, then parents invest in them more often thematic result. For example, “We are invincible”, “We, like a glove, are always together”, “One for all and all for one”. The family motto for children is most likely fun when you can spend time with your parents. But over time, it can carry a deeper meaning and determine the credo of life.
The motto can be dynamic and static. In the first case, it is compiled for a certain period of time and may reflect problems, situations, and the nature of the family. In the second, he defines the foundations of life, principles. For example, the dictum of family honor and hard work can trace the moral character of future generations, but only if parents proudly speak of a family motto as a distinctive feature of a kind!
Children's motto of the family as a mirror of the soul
In preparatory groups of the kindergarten, and then in schools, the psychologist conducts individual conversations with problem children, where he asks to draw a family, characterize it, identify the characteristic features of each member, come up with a slogan. The way the child describes the relationship with family, and will testify to the real nature of communication.
For example, a six-year-old girl can say that a man always lies on the couch and smokes, mom always erases, cooks and cleans up after dad, and she and her sister draw and watch cartoons. But with the further question about her future family life, the girl’s answer (“I will not have a husband because I can lie on the sofa myself and I will not have children, because I don’t want to be tired like a mother”) testifies to violations of the worldview .
Even if you ask for a mom and child motto in class, the psychologist will also get a lot of information. For example, the phrase “Forever in work” or the playful expression “Work, work, work” may indicate that work comes to the fore in the family, but they lack competent (correct) rest.
How best to reflect the essence of your family and come up with an original chant
- What is the subject of the competition? The theme should be in the foundation of the motto and highlight the necessary qualities. For example, in psychological competition, feelings are important, in sports - physical qualities, in women - culinary abilities or the beauty of the beautiful half.
- How does the family fit in with this contest? The motto is to show family unity and strong qualities to “intimidate” rivals. This will help allegories and comparisons with natural power.
- The motto of the family should be concise, understandable, intimate and memorable. Children most often start screaming chants of rivals because of their simplicity and beautiful sound.
Speech can be invented by yourself or use sayings, proverbs that reflect the worldview of the family. If the slogan is ambiguous, then you can come up with a verse explaining the main features.
Motto templates
Many family sayings become popular popular phrases. So, the sun with rays becomes a stereotype in the drawing of the emblem, hands with fingers - in the image of the coat of arms. And “Mom, Dad, I am a friendly (athletic, interesting, smart) family” is the most popular motto of the family.
Examples of the best historical family songs:
- By labor and zeal.
- God is my salvation.
- We were.
- Deeds are not words.
- Life to the King, honor to no one.
Children's examples of mottos:
- Without love, care and patience, there will be neither happiness nor fun!
- Not a day without work!
- The sun, air and water are our best friends!
- Go ahead for new discoveries!
- Music is our life!
Adult family patterns:
- PatAmushta we are the BAND.
- Hands to God.
- Chamber number six.
- Forever running.
Pay attention to how the mottos of generations differ: the nobility determined the principles of life that needed to be followed by the whole family; children try to highlight the meaning of a family contest or their life; adults put an attitude to each other and to each member of the family in this phrase.