TEACH CHILDREN AGES EARLY SELF

TEACH CHILDREN AGES EARLY SELF

Behavior of children aged 0-6 years and its development is strongly influenced by internal factors, namely parents.

At the age of three or four months can actually be taught to be independent. This can be done by letting him practice on his stomach. By not help doing so, but only give encouragement and applause when the child can successfully establish the child's independence.

At the age of six or seven months when children learn to sit still too self-sufficiency should be applied. Even to a child growing up at age 11-12 months in which he had been there on the stage of learning to walk, it should be taught self-contained with its own.

"When he learned to walk, put the toy in front of him and then let the kids to try to get it myself. Not just limited to that alone, teaches self-reliance in children effectively done when he eats. By letting him feed himself, though messy, would require it to continue independently.

Parents are responsible to give freedom to their children. For example, when children were told to choose between feeding themselves or assisted by his mother, children choose their own food over the kitchen table with her parents. then the child will mimic the eating habits of his parents. Thus they become independent at an early age. With independence, the child will more easily stimulated the development of other aspects of intelligence (multiple intelligences).

As said Glenn Doman, an expert on child development, human brain development occurs most rapidly at the age of 0 to 7 years and can be optimally achieved if given the proper stimulation.

Therefore, parents should take the child to follow the program Playgroup (Playgroup) since the child was 2 years old. Preschool education (Playgroup and Kindergarten) are considered important because it provides a strong foundation for further education.

Here, some practical considerations in choosing the right preschool education:

1.      Draft Program

The program should be directed and implemented in accordance with the age group of children so as to optimize the child's physical development (physical development), the intellectual development (intellectual development), social-emotional development (social-emotional development) as well as optimizing the child's ability to express his desire to communicate ( language development). At preschool age, level of development of each child is different. These four basic developments must be stimulated in a balanced way in the form of "learning while playing" in the process of communicative and affectionate, so that the children feel at home at school.

Preschool programs will be more complete if there program visits (excursion) to places of interest, such as the introduction of nature and animals. It is important to broaden and develop the child's imagination.

2.      The design activity

In the preschool years, children usually get bored on a given activity. Activities should be designed vary in shape indoor activities (indoor) and outdoor activities (outdoors). Activity in the room focused on practice concentration, stimulates the imagination and foster creativity and logical thinking of children. In addition, indoor activities beneficial to train the child discipline in daily habits, such as tidying toys familiarize themselves, feed themselves, raise a dinner plate to the trolley has been provided (known as the Montessori approach).

Outdoor activity is focused on optimizing the physical development and social-emotional, like running, playing swing, slide, sand play, to train children to socialize with each other, and playing in the pool water which is also a very popular activity of the child. A comfortable and pleasant atmosphere will make the kids do not get bored in pursuing his playing days while studying in school.

3.      Facilities and Playing Aids

Notice facilities, such as school buildings, classrooms, facilities and infrastructure that support the activities of children. At preschool age, when children are beginning to show his skill to do something to be desired. Children's physical balance has not been stable, so often the case of children falling or slipping when playing. Therefore, pre-school activities are not conducted in high rise building to reduce the risk of falling on the steps that can be fatal to his physical development. It can even lead to brain injury that the impact will be seen in the long run.
Children need room to move freely while playing outdoors. Make sure, if the school has ample playground for outdoor activities? Note also the tools used to play, in terms of size must comply with the child's age and safe in terms of health and safety of children. For example (i) the size of the toy is too small for age infants and toddlers (under 2 years of age) because it would be very dangerous if ingested, and (ii) materials such as crayons and modeling clay should not contain toxic dyes that are harmful to health because there is a possibility they are eaten.

4.      Ratio of Number of Children and Teachers

The ratio of the number of children and teachers / caregivers is important to note, because it affects the quality of parenting and education. Parenting programs for infants under 1 year of age (nursery), the ideal ratio is one nurse caring for an infant (1:1); program toddlers (1-2 years) the comparison of a nanny caring for 4 children (1:4); playgroup program ( 3-4 years old) a caregiver for 8 children (1:8); kindergarten program, ideally a teacher fostering 10 children (1:10).

Nanny character is very well determine the success of this program. Therefore, patient and caregiver should be able to portray themselves as parents, so children feel comfortable and protected.

5.      The length of time in school

Experience has shown, the shorter the time the school and / or further apart the children follow a program of the week, the more stress in their preschool program. This happens due to psychological factors, namely the child should make the process of adaptation to the school environment. For example: (i) if the preschool program would only be made 2 hours a day, then the instinct of courage when the child begins to emerge, it turns out the child had to go home because the bell rang to go home, and (ii) if the preschool program is only 3 times a week cause the child must repeat the process to adapt each time to come to school because they are yesterday's holiday.

Both of these will hinder the child's independence, so it seems there is no progress. Therefore, choose a preschool educational institution that has a program with a number of more regular school attendance and time in school longer, the condition should be comfortable and pleasant atmosphere with a wide selection of interesting programs.

6.      Medical Examination

Health is very influential on the development of children. Seek clarity whether the selected preschools provide routine medical examination by medical personnel (doctors).

7.      Management

Success or failure of an activity is determined managerial skills of the managers. Pre-school manager must have adequate knowledge about pre-school education and also has the talent as a figure who loved children. Look for information about the desired pre-school manager. Do have a preschool educational background and a strong commitment to education? Whether the supervision is done directly by the manager?