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Do I need to send my child to a kindergarten?
Last reviewed: 19.10.2021
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Most children benefit from kindergarten. But not every child needs it. The kindergarten is especially valuable for the only child in the family who does not have enough opportunity to communicate with other children.
Each child needs a society of children of his age, not only for games and entertainment, but also to learn to live in a team, which in general is the main task of every person's life. In addition, the child needs space where he can run, jump and make noise as much as he wants, without looking back at neighbors living below the floor. He needs devices for physical exercises, cubes, blocks, boards, etc., for the development of physical skills. He also needs to communicate with other adults, except his parents. Very few children have all these advantages at home.
And, of course, kindergartens are needed for children whose parents do not have the opportunity to leave work.
Some parents believe that the main benefit of a kindergarten is the skills that they teach: drawing, reading poetry, etc. They try to send the child to the kindergarten from four to five years so that the teachers can prepare him for this time school. Of course they are wrong. Such skills are an insignificant part of the benefits that a good kindergarten gives. In kindergarten, the child learns much more - communication. He learns to work in a team, to find a common language with peers, and if necessary - and give in to them in something. Agree that these educational moments are much more important than learning to draw or sing.
Sometimes parents do not want to lead a child to a kindergarten because the baby often gets cold. But we need to understand that the advantages of a kindergarten more than pay off this shortcoming. And, in the end, you need to try to temper your child. After all, you can not endlessly create him hothouse conditions. And if he goes to school unhardened and will often miss lessons due to illness? So it is better to heal it up to this time.
That's what I can recommend to parents: if your child is difficult to adapt to a kindergarten or is too tired there, then in the first 2-3 months it should be taken to the garden for a part-time day. That is, take it earlier (say, before the day's sleep). Such a gradual accustoming to the kindergarten will help the child to adapt more easily to the children's team. By the way, children have different attitudes towards kindergarten. For example, my eldest daughter was very difficult to get used to it, but the younger one tried to do it with all her heart and even drove her grandfather in the morning, and when he went to work, he took her there: "Grandfather, what are you rummaging about? In the kindergarten! "