Preparing Your Child for School

One of the most important things you can do for your child is to read books out loud beginning at a very early age. Reading to your baby will not only encourage the lifelong habit and love for reading, but it will also begin to help your baby develop language. In addition to being read to, children love to be spoken to. This will help them learn about the environment around them, including observing and interpreting people, things, sounds. colors, shapes and all the other subtle things near them. It is well researched that children who are spoken to and read to are far more prepared for school than those who were left to themselves and without such stimulation. These parenting acitivities are great ways in preparing your child for school.

Another very important part of parenting your toddler or preschooler in preparing her for school, is socialization. Not only will your child get tremendous learning readiness from the way you interact with him, but it will also be important for your child to learn how to interact with other children around his own age. This is recognized widely as an important part of parenting and can be accomplished in many ways, in play groups, mommy/baby classes and even the day care setting on occasion. This is not to say that your toddler or preschooler must be on some rigid schedule. But good parenting means getting out of the house now and then.

While parenting and preparing your child for school, in addition to reading to your child, it is very important to play with your child. You don't need expensive toy because you have many things around house that can be very educational. Preparing your child for school does not have to be an exaggerated process either. Just the natural day to day parenting activities that you and your child do together will be surprisingly enjoyable and educational for both of you.

Take for instance activities in the kitchen. Your preschooler will really enjoy helping you prepare snacks, baked goods or simple meals. Even if all he/she does is pour flour from the measuring cup into a bowl or mash up the egg yolks, learning is going on, especially if you are talking through the process. Your child will begin to learn about measurements, following directions, cooperating and being a part of a project that ends up with some fun and delicious product. And all this good parenting is preparing your child for school.

Parenting includes activities that you do every day in your home and they could include your child. One of these is cleaning up. This simple task will help your child learn to sort and organize toys, fold laundry or put away dishes and all the while you could be talking about sizes, colors and shapes and your parenting in this way is preparing your child for school. These activities are an easy way to help prepare your child for school because they are part of your routine. Outside the home, some of the parenting activities that you may be involved in are swimming, story hour of the library, and playgroup. And they are all important in the process of preparing your child for school. You could also take your child to museum. Art museums could be very stimulating to your preschooler, but the most important part of this type of outing is talking about what you see. This encourages critical thinking and analyzing on the part of your child. You can ask questions. Thinking about these questions will encourage creative ways of seeing and thinking about the world and will certainly be preparing your child for school.

Another fun parenting outing that caters to preschoolers is the theatre. There are often puppet shows and plays that are produced specifically for young audiences. And once again not only experiencing these cultural events will prepare your child for school, but later talking about them with you helps develop your child's appreciation for creative expression. Things like story hour, the museums and sometimes even performances at festivals are all often free of charge. So parenting doesn't mean you have to have a lot of spending money to expose you child to stimulating, educational and fun activities, all of which will help in preparing your child for school.

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