How to help your child enjoy going to school?

School. How many expectations, hopes, and worries children, parents, and teachers associate with this word!

Going to school is the beginning of a new stage in a child's life, his or her entry into the world of knowledge, new rights and responsibilities, complex and diverse relationships with adults and peers.

How will the child learn at school, will he or she enjoy being a will he or she enjoy being a student, how will the relationship with the teacher and classmates develop? This is a concern for all parents.

Today, we will give dear parents some tips to help their child enjoy going to school.

TELL POSITIVE STORIES FROM YOUR SCHOOL LIFE

It is important to develop a positive attitude towards school in a young student. If the child wants to learn and is sure that school is interesting, then the inevitable stress associated with new rules and routines, a large number of strangers will be successfully overcome. To do this, tell your child funny stories from your school life as often as possible.

DO NOT FOCUS ON GRADES

Many parents make a grave mistake when they start scaring their child: ‘Read, or you'll get failing grades’.

Focus your child's attention on the learning process (you will learn a lot, you will have new friends, you will become smart), and not on good grades, which are better not to mention at all.

DO NOT SCARE YOUR CHILD ABOUT SCHOOL

Under no circumstances should you start talking in front of your child about childhood is ‘over’, do not feel sorry for him/her: ‘poor thing, the working days are beginning’.

Don't even jokingly scare them about school. You should also not discuss future expenses in front of your child, getting upset about expensive uniforms or stationery.

BUY SCHOOL SUPPLIES TOGETHER WITH YOUR CHILD

You should buy a backpack and all school supplies together with your child, so you involve them in the process of preparing for the first day of school. Let the child choose a pencil case, pens, pencils and rulers, notebooks with colourful drawings on the cover.

When you come home, do not hide the purchases in the closet - give them to your child so that he or she gets used to new things. Let him pack his schoolbag, carry it around the apartment, put notebooks and pencils on the table, then simple instructions from the teacher such as ‘Take out the red pen or notebook in the ruler’ will not be difficult for the child: he will know exactly where everything is.

PLAY AT SCHOOL

Let all of your child's toys go to first grade, and let the favourite one become a teacher. In this game, you can explain the basic school rules: how to sit at the desk, how to answer in class, how to ask to go to the toilet, what to do during recess.

TEACH YOUR CHILD HOW TO USE A CLOCK

Keeping track of time is a necessary skill for school. If your child doesn't know how to use a clock yet, teach him or her how. Many children can easily navigate an electronic clock. The child should know what a quarter of an hour, half an hour, and an hour later mean.

Hang a large clock in the child's room (any kind, as long as the child can use it to tell the time). During reading, playing or eating, you can put the clock on the table and draw the child's attention to what time the activity started and what time it ended.

PLAY AS MANY TEAM GAMES AS POSSIBLE

There are rules at school that need to be followed: sit at your desk, get up when the teacher says so, and be quiet. Without understanding these elementary laws, it will be difficult for a child in the 1st grade.

To teach your child to play by the rules, use team games. With their help, the child will learn that there are rules to follow and that the result depends on it. Another important lesson that team games teach your child is to be calm about losing.

TRAIN ATTENTION AND MEMORY

A game that develops attention: all participants are given the same gametext and track time. The players have to find and cross out the letters ‘s’ as quickly and as many times as possible.

At first, the ‘lesson’ game is played for 10 minutes, the next day - 15 minutes, gradually bringing the ‘lesson’ time to the duration of the school day. When the child goes to school, he/she will not be afraid of endless half an hour of lessons.

Play the game ‘Look away and name’ as often as possible. Put toys on the toys on the table. Let your child look at them for one minute. Then he/she has to turn away and name the toys on the table. Make the task more difficult: add more toys, reduce the time for memorisation. You can replace one toy with another - the child should come back and tell you what has changed.

We wish children success in their studies and their parents wisdom and patience.