Dispel worry of entering first grade of child
Enter first grade, a child is with a mixture of happy, prideful as growing-up and briefly sad as saying good-bye to kindergarten and friends at pre-school, adding the causeless fear. This mish mass-like sensation makes child puzzled.
Your baby stars to enter first form, you are certainly worry about it is easy or not to your child to integrate the new environment in the first year of primary education. You should evaluate the development of your child according to following four criterions: reading and writing skill, integration skill, the skill of establishment friendly relation with others the same of age group, and self-respect.
Reading and writing skill
Almost children are complete prepared to develop reading and writing skill in nursery school. If they learn ahead, you will see little change in the first years of primary school.
Societal skill
Parents are often worried about how their children fall in line with others, the measure of independence and responsibility and the ability of cooperation. These are total necessary skills for children learn into class. Children need to follow directions or solve by themselves as no controlled and to correct self. The thing makes person who take charge of education the most worried matter that is children start first grade have no these skills. However children set up these pass by school years.
Self-respect
It means self-confidence of children. Psychological specialist of education says that should not be worry about the self-respect of children. The research at America affirm a little of achievement is not the result of bad evaluation of oneself.
The relationship of the same age
Almost children integrate well with the others. There is just a low ratio of children meet with difficulty for this situation in class or on school yard. Just remember that you are the first teacher child. Your children will learn and promote many skills at school, however the skills they learned from you like how to cooperate, following directions and adjust themselves will help children control the changes when in new school.
The family's helps
Almost all babies must spend a mixture of the state of complex emotion before they start to go to school, that is: happiness, pride and pleasance of one's growing-up, a briefly sad as saying good-bye to kindergartens and friends at pre-school, the causeless fear. This mish mass-like sensation makes child puzzled. How strong it is, the measure of shock depends on the preparation of parents for children's psychology.
When falling into this state of feeling children don't know how to clear away trouble. Parents must lead them. Let's ensure your children can control this event by telling them "you can do that". To say more simple "Many new friends the same age with you are there. It appears some of old friends, too. Try you, right!"
You also must set up limitations and standards in children's behaviors, make clear plans as schedule of brushing teeth, taking a bath, and time to bed, time to wake up. You should try to have dinner with your family. Children must know what will happen to them and what are desired to them. When you perform this, the transition step from pre-school to first grade will take place smoother.
Helping your children face difficulties which they often look back on the losses and separation are very important. Don't you deny it! Let's tell children that entering first grade is necessary. Try to answer every question from them. Children usually are anxious for things will occur because they have not yet experience to make repartee.
Listen to them thoughtfully so that you can repeat their words. Don't just say "Don't worry. You will be OK!". Give your whole mind to children's worries. You should arouse many chances to children to talk about primary school before new year school begin; or so start conversation with arouse adventures that your baby knew as in pre-school. And then you make question to them "Father /mother are wavering new preceptress will hold which tours for you, does she?". If you have doubts about your children are sad, should say "some of friends are sad as saying goodbye pre-school. How do you feel?"
Hold a solemn moment of beginning of new term is the way that parent can help children to make easy the transition stage of children. Everyone who remembers enjoyable feeling, happiness of buying new shoes prepared for new school year, don't he?
Introduce children into new school and meet new teacher, visit the class, go around new school that is good idea. If parents can't hold a general view like this, by leading children to pass by new school can help them to familiarize to it and create comfortable feeling.
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