Psychotherapists told how to help a first-grader to adapt to school
Metropolitan psychotherapists, members of the professional community have issued a memo for parents of children, who this year to go to the first class.
Starting school - huge stress for a childexperts said. Study will require changes in lifestyle, daily routine. To get used to the new reality, the baby will need at least two months. The task of the parents is not to escalate the situation, but to help the child overcome the adaptation period.
First of all, you should not count on visiting the kindergarten. Although it is believed that "sadikovsky" children quickly get used to school, in practice, according to doctors, this is not always the case.
The fact is that graduations in kindergartens were held in May. And until September, the child simply lost the habit of the regime, the requirements, the discipline, and therefore, compared with the "home" children who did not attend kindergarten, they are not at all positive.
But noticeably help preparatory classes in school. Those who visited them, more or less familiar with the new situation, for them a new life, which begins on September 1, will not be traumatic and unexpected.
It will be easier for children who go to school at the place of residence - it is possible that future classmates are familiar to them from playing together in the yard or in kindergarten.
To help the child get used to school faster, psychotherapists advised in the last days of August, just go to school with the kid - show the building, class, corridors, toilet, dining room. Then, with the beginning of study, the child will have more confidence - the territory will be familiar to him.
If school everyday life does not cause delight in the first-grader, and he closes, begins to protest against attending classes, but he will not voice his own concerns, you need to play "school" with him. He should be a student and a teacher. The way the child builds the game will surely prompt attentive parents what's wrong in real school.
In matters of homework, do not be too zealous - do more than specified, do not need. Also, parents need to keep their emotions in their hands - do not shout at the child and do not scold him if something goes wrong.
After the child finishes the first class, psychotherapists do not advise parents to relax, because the second will be no less traumatic - the student will begin to put these estimates. It will be good if already from the first class mom and dad teach the child to lose.
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