How to bring up the skills of personal hygiene and neatness in a child in 1-1,5 years?

If you want your child to grow up to be a neat, cultured person, you must teach him that. Naturally, you yourself should serve him with an example. You can not ask the child to keep the hands clean, if you have them dirty, and under the fingernails "mourning." You can not expect the child to be neat in clothes, if you walk around the room in a dirty, torn dressing gown, and on your feet you have holey socks or ragged slippers. Keep in mind that the child, while he is small, and at an older age, tries to imitate the adults and "absorbs" in themselves their manner of behavior, like a sponge. And negative examples "sink" into his soul much faster than positive ones.

For the successful instillation of the skill of neatness, it is very important that the educator, in the process of communicating with the child, express a positive attitude towards everything clean, tidy. For example, a child picked up a doll. And my mother at this time should say: "Look, what a clean doll!" What a clean, ironed dress she has! What are clean pens on the doll! " Or, on the contrary, express censure if the dress and hands of the doll are dirty. This is necessary in order for the child to understand that sloppiness, untidiness is bad. Naturally, one approving or disapproving attitude is not enough. After all, if the dress and hands of the doll are clean (and you too), but the apartment is bedlam, things are lying around on the crumbs table, and in the sink for a week there is unwashed dishes, the child simply will not believe you. So, at the age of one to one and a half years it is necessary to begin to cultivate the child's cultural and hygienic skills:

1. wash hands before eating;
2. there is only from his plate;
3. sit down alone in your highchair, and after meals to put it back in place (if it is, of course, not very heavy);
4. before eating it is necessary to put on the child head-carcasses or "bib" so that he understands that the "stuck" shirts are bad;
5. after visiting the toilet (or if the child does not visit it yet, but simply sits on a pot), it is essential to wash your hands;
6. the child should know that sitting on the pot should be quiet, not doing outside things;
7. the child must be taught to wash and clean the teeth in the morning and in the evening;
8. the child must clearly understand that from the table you can not go out with a piece of pie, bread, apple, etc. You can not leave the table and with your mouth full;
9. it is advisable to teach the child to thank mother, grandmother or any other adult after a meal.

With the correct method of teaching to neatness, children by a year and a half begin to ask for themselves on the pot. Partly you are already familiar with the technique of teaching a child to a pot. But this topic is important, so you can repeat it.

In the evening, before going to bed, you put the baby on the potty. If he did nothing, then after about 2 hours you should try again, even if the child is already asleep. The main thing - do not rattle at the same time, do not include a bright light, so that the child is not afraid and does not become capricious. (A capricious child may not even go to the pot - out of stubbornness and irritation that he was awakened). In the middle of the night, 3-4 hours after the previous urination, try to put the child back. At the same time, your actions should be accompanied by quiet, gentle words, urging the child to pee. In the afternoon, if the child does not always ask for it, you too must observe the time interval between urination. Usually parents know (about) how often their baby peeds. On this basis, if the child has played and does not show normal anxiety before urinating, you must interrupt his game and invite him to go to the potty. By the way, interrupt the game, too, so that the child is not capricious. If, for example, he plays dolls, bears (or even typewriters), you need to smoothly intervene in the game and say: "Oh, look, the bear wanted to write." Let's put him on the pot. " And then offer to go to the pot and baby. At the same time, it is desirable to put a bear on a toy pot, otherwise a child who has long needed to urinate will not wait for the bear to "descend" on his pot, and will wet himself. These or similar methods of training should be used constantly, every day. Then the child will gradually begin to ask for a pot. You can not be angry with the child and punish him for the fact that he, having played, missed the right moment. However, express his displeasure by the fact that he wet his panties, you need. For example, you can say at the same time: "Phi-i! Our boy (girl) wet his panties! He did not ask to go to the toilet (on the pot) and now it will be wet!" But, when reproaching the child, do not forget that half of the blame lies on you. After all, you should teach him to ask for a pot. It is you who must see that the child is about to go to the toilet!

To the training of neatness can be attributed and the process of dressing and undressing. The child should know that the things he took off should be carefully folded in a specially designated place (hang on a stool or put in a locker). Naturally, his hands do not yet know how to make such subtle movements as folding things, but you must help him in this. The main thing is that he does not scatter them around the room.

The upbringing of neatness is also the maintenance of order in the children's corner. If the child during the game scattered his toys, and then got up and left, it must be returned and forced to remove the toys. If you do not do this, then the child will never learn to put things in order not only in their own corner, but also in their own home. If the child does not want to follow your instructions and begins to be capricious, you can try to turn the cleaning into a game. For example, say: "Oh, look! Machines (dolls, bears, cubes, etc.) wanted to drop into the garage, and the soldiers must go to bed and they want to climb into their box."

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