By Priti Salian
Of course you know that a child’s learning process begins from the time of conception, and of the importance of the first six years of life in her brain development. You are also aware that what your child absorbs in these six years will finally determine what she may make of her life.
Incidentally, her interest towards her education may also depend on what she is exposed to in her formative years. For this reason and many more, it is crucial that your child gets quality preschool education.
Your child needs to interact with other kids in school, even at the cost of being away from you and other familiar faces at home. Sure, many parents need a lot of time to prepare their kids for a preschool, since their little ones suffer from separation anxiety.
However, once your child begins to attend a preschool, she gets to see the same faces regularly for two to three hours. This leads to early bonding with kids from her own age group, which is very important.
A preschool provides your child a stable group of peers for interaction, sharing and playing, while adults associated with the preschool help build the important trait of trusting elders other than parents and grandparents.
Children make friends and develop a good vocabulary faster when they attend a preschool. Importantly, they also learn to stay away from you and not miss you, enjoy games and activities with their friends, and to play in a group without ruffling feathers.
They also learn to listen to teachers, talk when it is their turn and raise their hands to answer. These, along with sitting still in class, are skills that give your child a true edge over children who have not gone through a preschool. Such kids tend to be delights to their teachers.
Conversing with peers will help your child make choices and personal decisions. Being encouraged by teachers will boost her confidence and help her set goals for herself.
Sheetal was amazed when her four-year-old son Gaurang came back from school one day and told her that, during an activity in school, he chose Rhea to be his partner and not Shlok because he had seen Shlok throw a stone at a dog. He was learning to think critically!
Reena’s daughter learnt to say “I love you” to her parents every time she felt happy about something they did. “We are not so expressive with her at home, so we were quite happy when she picked this up from her teacher,” says Reena.
With many contemporaries to interact with, a child will improve his communication skills, the expression of his feelings, and to empathise with people.
Interacting with other kids in school improves social and communication skillsGross and fine motor skills tend to develop rapidly in the preschool age. Singing action songs, rhymes, etc. gives your child a sense of space and direction, and crawling, hopping and following different animals in school helps in gross motor development.
Activities like crumpling paper, tearing it to bits (as you know, kids do this with a lot of dexterity) and using child safe scissors to cut it, are excellent for the development of fine motor skills, as do finger painting and other craftwork activities.
Today, preschools offer some great learning programmes for children. The focus has shifted from teaching children core academics to enhancing their creativity and imagination through interesting activities and play. Your child still learns his ABCs and numbers, but in a way that he enjoys.
On a certain day, his school may introduce the number seven to him and on the next, he may colour seven ducks. This may be followed by a story about seven thieves and a film based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. So, even if your child comes home with a song on his lips rather than a one to ten, you can rest assured that he is still learning – and in the best possible way.
All moms need the occasional two or three hours away from their toddlers. Don’t you sometimes eye your spouse enviously when he is able to treat your tot so lovingly, without a trace of irritation?
“That is what quality time with your child is,” you always tell yourself. You could certainly deal with your child more patiently if you got a little time away from him, getting a few hours on your own to catch up with sleep, watching TV, reading, etc.
When you entrust your child to a preschool rather than a daycare or a domestic help, you get stress-free time away from your child, knowing that he is in a safe environment, taken care of by expert hands and learning age-appropriate stuff in a manner that he enjoys.
Children who attend preschool tend to have better reading abilities, math skills and richer vocabularies. However, do keep in mind that much depend son the quality of the chosen preschool, which must be carefully selected.
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