"SUMMER VACATION round the corner! Parent involvement assumes significance. So gear up parents with the following tips!"
# The school and teachers play a significant role in the learning of a child, undoubtedly. Yet the role of parents is just invariant and indispensable. Parenting isn't a practice. It's a daily teaching-learning experience. Let us together, give our children, roots to grow and wings to fly.
For parents,it is important to not become pre-occupied with just their child's academic ability. Unbind the child's potential and you'll transform him/her into the world.The simple yet much ignored guidelines in this article might help the parents(of children aged 3 to 13yrs) to offer conscious help at home,for the overall development of the child.It attempts to give pragmatic suggestions including emotional and intellectual parameters.This will help you grow your child in happiness and health:-
*Love,respect and treat your children with courtesy. Discipline them with affection.Try to have meals together and spend quality family time.This will bring in them cohesion, good conduct & happiness.
*Show them physical affection-smile,hug and pat them. This will develop in them liking.They will be motivated and become confident.
*Do not be over-protective or over-possessive.Encourage your children to eat,dress and get ready by themselves This will instill in them seeds of independence. Unnecessary help is harmful to child's natural development.
*Discourage your children from getting involved in destructive games and activities or from watching violent cartoons and movies.This way, you will not let negativity take over them.
*Turn off your smartphones and gadgets for sometime and create moments with your children. Let the children feel important and special.Involve them in decision-making and appreciate their suggestions You'll boost their self confidence and enhance their outlook in life.
*Greet well and be good as well as polite to their friends.They will learn to do the same with your friends and other guests too.
*Make children feel excited about their homework,projects and assignments. Don't treat it like any burden.Children have a natural urge to learn things in performing activities with their hands. Take out your time to sit with them and be involved energetically.
# To help your children develop independence, concentration,will power, motor control, self-confidence and good sense of judgement;you can involve them in a lot of practical activities like daily household chores and odd jobs.
To mention a few:-
*Let your children sometimes become your COOKING PARTNERS.(You can make them wash vegetables,fetch you ingredients, knead a small amount of dough,make lemonade or dissolve squash etc.)This will build up their motor control,patience and make them realise your hardwork behind those yummy platters.
*Sometimes,let your children help you in LAUNDRY,deciding with you, the clothes to soak or wash.Let them see and experience the entire process of washing and drying.This will make them aware and a little careful of not making their clothes unnecessarily dirty and messy.
*Let your children REFILL water bottles from your refrigerator and kitchen.This enhances in building up their sense of responsibility and concentration.
*Involve your children in folding clothes and rearranging CUPBOARDS and WARDROBES during holidays. This makes children aware of where things are placed and they learn the techniques of space management and sorting out.
*Let your children start POT-PLANTATION or GARDENING.This will nurture within them,the quality of being loving and caring.
*Kindle in them PLANNING HABITS. Make shopping lists,checklists,to-do lists of work involving your children. This will bring in them vision and foresightedness.
*At times,do BUDGETING with them like how to spend a certain amount, what to buy and how much would be adequate.This will make them sharp,clever and not spenthrift.
*Teach your children to COUNT money and make them do the payment when you're shopping with them.This will make them wise and smart.
*Once in a while, take them to visit BANKS and talk to them about simple bank dealings and procedures.This will implant seeds of being systematised and disciplined.
*Take your children alongwith to your WORKPLACE one day and let them see you working.This shall make them realise the pain that you take and the hardwork that you put in, to earn money for them, to sustain and enjoy. This will unknowingly and effortlessly ignite in them more love and respect for you.
*Don't worry that children never listen to you,worry that they are always WATCHING you.Talk sensible and productive, when kids are around. They passively grasp your mood,vibes and ways of dealing life. Remember,your child will follow your example,not advice!
*Last,but not the least,give some personal space, freedom and self-time to your child too.Remind yourself that BOREDOM too, is education for children .You really do not need to entertain your child all the time.Some boredom is good for children because it teaches them self-reliance, reflection and trains them to be capable to entertain themselves.
Dear PARENTS, don't raise your children to have more than you had; raise them to be more than you were.Let us not spoil them. Do not substitute presents for PRESENCE!
# Remember:
You are the boss of that DOUGH!
Knead it well and let them BAKE and RISE better!
Let no bitterness creep in between your Sweethearts and YOU!
