Parenting For Three Year Old
Five teachers using a combined 90 years of experience share advice for parents of 2- to 5-year-olds. Finding the Best Out of Your Child I worry that my 3-year-old, Sophie, has a split personality. At college she cleans up her toys, puts on her shoes, and is entirely self-sufficient at potty time. At home, she whines whenever I ask her to pick up anything, insists that I join in the restroom whenever she has to go, and lately has begun requiring that I spoon-feed her dinner. Clearly, her instructor knows something that I don't. But , what parent hasn't sometimes wondered: Why is my kid better for everybody else than for me? The easy answer: Your child tests her limits with you because she trusts you will love her no matter what, Daycare in Vaughan. But that doesn't mean that you can't borrow a few plans from the preschool instructors ' playbook to get the best from the little one. We requested teachers from all over the nation for their tips so listen up and take notes! .
Use sticker charts and rewards judiciously
If your child is working for the reward, he won't learn the real motives for doing things -- that he must pick up his possessions because relatives throw, says Buss. Best bet: Reserve benefits for finite jobs, such as potty training, but prevent offering them for regular things, such as dressing himself or brushing his teeth.
Allow your child work out small squabbles
Instead of swooping into settle disputes, stand back and allow them to work it out (unless they're hitting each other). You won't always be there to rescue your child.
Resist doing for her what she can do .
While it might be quicker and simpler to do it yourself, it won't help to make your child more self-sufficient. Quick suggestion: Appeal to her sense of pride, indicates Donna Jones, a preschool teacher at Southern Oregon University's Schneider Children's Center at Ashland, Oregon. Whenever I'm trying to get kids to dress, put jackets on, sit on chairs during meals and so on, I'll ask them: 'Do you need me to help you or do you do it yourself? ' Those words are like magic, promises Jones. The children always want to do it .
Do it to music.
There's a reason the cleanup song functions. Set a job to songs, and suddenly it's fun, says Sandy Haines, a teacher in the Buckingham Cooperative Nursery School, in Glastonbury, Connecticut. In case you're not feeling creative, indicate racing a song: Would you get dressed before Raffi finishes singing 'Yellow Submarine'?
Prioritize play.
Preschool teachers stated over and over that kids now are unable to play imaginatively than kids of a decade or two past. A lot of the day is structured in supervised activities, says Haines. The antidote: Obtain comfortable stating Go play. It's not your job to understand that your child is entertained 24/7. Let her get a little exhausted. But make sure she's things like dress-up clothes, paper and paint, a huge cardboard box, and play dough.
No ifs. Make requests in speech that assumes cooperation
Should you finish putting off your crayons, we can go to the park, indicates that perhaps your child won't wash up his crayons. Try alternatively: When you set your crayons off, we'll visit the park.
