How to teach a child to dress on his own?
When it is time to give the child to a kindergarten,the ability of a toddler to dress himself is one of the indispensable conditions for admission of a child to this preschool institution. If earlier you could afford to spend an extra hour dressing a baby, then the morning gatherings in a kindergarten are like a real marathon: to wake, wash, feed, dress, and shod. And still have time to get ready for work. therefore It is important to teach the child to dress himself. But how to do that?
Begin to teach the child the skills of self-dressing should from two to three years. Approximately from this age the child appearspersistent desire for independence and if you respond in time and correctly, you generally do not have to force the child to do something himself - he himself will strive for it. Therefore, if your baby is 2-3 years old, pay attention to several recommendations of child psychologists.
You can not suppress the initiative of the child. If he wants to try to dress himself - do not botherhim. But do not require the child immediately, so that he dressed only himself. Very often parents simply can not stand the slow pace of dressing the baby and, feeling that they are already late, begin in a hurry to dress the child themselves, not allowing him to dress on his own. In this case, it makes sense to start collecting a little bit in advance, taking into account the time to calm mastering the skills of dressing the baby.
If the child does not want to dress on his own, then try a little push it, for example, dressing him with socks or panties not to the end and inviting the child to finish dressing himself.
Very often the rapid development of the skill of self-dressing prevents the design of clothes child. If the baby's things have a lot of numeric zippers and laces, small buttons, it greatly complicates the dressing process for him. Therefore, for the first time it would be more appropriate to buy a child things with large comfortable clasps, velcro, rubber.
Exist special developing games-lacing or just any toys that you canunfasten and button up. Playing these games the child develops small motor skills of the hands and it will be easier for him to cope with his clothes. Girls can learn their first dressing skills on puppets with their puppet dresses.
Can play with the child in different games that will help him learndress. For example, let trouser legs become tunnels, and legs of a toddler. Suggest your little one "to drop by train to the tunnels". Girls, and boys, too, with pleasure playing in the "fashion show" or "photo shoot" - this is an excellent occasion for learning to dress yourself.
The example of adult children with pleasure imitate. Try to arrange competitions "for distillation": who will dress faster.
Tell your child what to put on. For many children remember the sequencedressing up things can be a problem. You can, together with the baby, make a poster on which to place the images of clothing in the correct sequence. This will help the child to remember more quickly. In addition, so that the child does not confuse where before, and where the back of clothing, choose clothes with pockets or appliqués in front, so the child will be easier to navigate.
