Congratulations! Your child was given a ticket to the garden, a new world will open for him with all its colors. However, most parents experience very mixed feelings of joy and fear, concern about a new stage in the life of the child.
How to prepare a child for kindergarten? What feelings does the baby feel?
Children can also be sad, anxious, agitated, and they are just as scared as you are. Only you can help your child make a smooth transition into a changed rhythm of life.
Kindergarten is good
Before you go to kindergarten, prepare the child psychologically, speak in a positive manner about the kindergarten. Tell us how you went to the garden at the same age, and you really liked it, that you made a lot of friends and learned a lot in this institution. Children tend to love listening to their parents' childhood stories. Emphasize all the most interesting and exciting aspects with which the baby will meet.
Do not neglect open day
When it comes to how to adapt a child to a kindergarten, the most positive result is a joint visit to the garden in advance. Each kindergarten holds an open day - this is an opportunity to go with your little one to the kindergarten and introduce him to the teacher, as well as familiarize him with the atmosphere in which he will have to spend most of the time. Go to the playground, let the baby see multi-colored swings, slides, sandbox. After all these activities, be sure: the baby will certainly want to go to kindergarten.
Teach your child to be independent
As a rule, there are a lot of children in the group, and the educator cannot immediately see after all, to serve everyone. To do this, it is important to teach the baby the necessary things that will make it easier for him to be in kindergarten.
How to prepare a child for kindergarten?
First of all, you need to wean the baby from the nipple before the garden. This is not an easy task, but important, because if he goes to the garden with a pacifier, it is not known how many children he will let her suck. And also teach the baby to sleep without a nipple, otherwise in the garden he will not sleep at all, or he will, but restless.
Potty training
When a child goes to kindergarten, it is necessary to accustom him to the potty. If the child asks for a pot, this will facilitate the task for both him and the teacher, especially in cold times. Thus, you can protect it from colds.
How to use cutlery
When you think about how to prepare your child for kindergarten, you need to remember one more important thing - teaching the baby to eat with a fork and a spoon. Many children who came to the garden do not know how to use cutlery, cannot drink from a cup, since they drank at home either from a bottle or from a drinker. To prevent your baby from being hungry in the garden, show and tell how to eat with a fork and spoon, how to use napkins.
For the first time in kindergarten
Tomorrow is the long-awaited day when the baby goes to kindergarten. You need to make sure that the baby sleeps. At 3-4 years old, children need to sleep from ten to twelve hours every night. You need to take this into account in order to know when to put it in the evening and when to lift it in the morning. Also, the children get up badly and are naughty in the morning, and in order not to be late, you need to wake them up earlier. In the evening, prepare clothes with the child, make sure that he chooses an outfit for himself - in this case, he will be in a good mood and he will go to the garden happy.
Social and emotional development continues throughout childhood and adolescence. Skills that are important for kindergarten remain equally important throughout the rest of your baby’s life: at school, in careers, and in adulthood. It is in kindergarten age that these skills begin to take root. Therefore, such a moment as preparing a child for kindergarten is of great importance for his further stay in it and for subsequent development.