"Guidelines for Learning and Development of Children Aged 3-6" puts forward clear and specific requirements for young children's self-care ability. In addition to the daily educational and teaching activities of kindergartens, cultivating children's ability to take care of themselves is also inseparable from the power from the family.
But in life, many parents are not willing to let their children do housework, thinking that doing housework is adults' business, and the children will help the more they help. But in fact, doing housework is a way for children to build self-confidence and can help them develop good living habits.
Today I will share with you a age comparison table for children doing housework. Please pass it to your parents around you!
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Age comparison table for children doing housework
2 - 3 years old
can use the toilet by himself;
can brush his teeth by himself;
can water flowers by himself;
can throw garbage into the trash can by himself;
can help mothers hang clothes on the hanger;
can organize toys by himself before going to bed.
3 - 4 years old
learn to wipe the dust;
put out used towels, toothbrushes, and washbasins;
put your dirty clothes in dirty clothes basket ;
put your own bowls and plates in the kitchen sink after meals;
can put your toys and books back to their original position.
4-5 years old
wipe the dining table after meals;
prepare tableware according to the number of people before meals;
clean your own socks and other small things;
can prepare the clothes you wear the next day;
sort and stack the dried clothes neatly.
5 - 6 years old
learns to clean the room;
sweep the floor and take out the garbage;
learns to fold the quilt;
learns to tidy up your own small bed;
will prepare a small schoolbag for going to kindergarten the next day.
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Do housework with your children and experience the happiness of parent-child labor.
Working with parents can increase children's interest, intimate parent-child relationships, and cultivate a spirit of collaboration.
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How to make children fall in love with labor?
1. Start working within your personal duties
let your children work. should arrange according to the abilities that the children have at this stage, so as not to feel fear and resistance due to setbacks.
For example, let the younger children arrange tableware and store items first. When the child gets older, let him learn to organize his own room and small bags, and cultivate a sense of order and orderliness. Then slowly transition to allowing children to participate in food purchase and processing, and engage in more difficult housework such as simple repairs.
2. Make a plan
Parents can discuss with their children what they can do and what they want to do, so that their children can feel the initiative as much as possible. And cooperate with the child to design a labor plan, then perform the daily housework required according to the plan, and give the child appropriate encouragement.
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3. "Gamification" of housework
Games are one of the ways for children to learn, and housework can also be gamified. We can make housework into a "level upgrade" mode like a game, setting different difficulties for different housework.
For example, you have to complete the small task of placing dishes and chopsticks before meals for a week in a row, so that you can make dumplings with your mother on weekends. Or you must master the skills of classifying clothes by different colors and materials before you can learn the new skill of "using a washing machine".
In this way, children no longer think that doing housework is boring, but will persist for the next interesting goal and treat housework as a game.
4. Turn house chores into parent-child activities
Many times parents just ask their children to do housework in general and do not teach them how to do it step by step.
For example, if you want to teach your child to fold clothes, parents can demonstrate it themselves first, and tell your child what specific steps are there for folding clothes, how to fold them to make them more neat, and where to put them after folding them, so that the child will know very clearly what they should do at each step.
5. "Concretize" housework
A vague instruction, such as "clean up the room", will make the child not know where to start.
If you split a task into specific small steps, it will be easier for the baby to understand and have more confidence in completing the instructions.
So when assigning labor tasks, parents should not only demonstrate step by step to their children, but also explain the specific requirements and details of labor tasks so that their children can see clearly and understand them, and gradually master these skills.
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6. Focus on encouragement and gradually guide
When children start trying to do housework, because their motor skills are not so proficient, it is normal for them to make mistakes, not do it slowly or do it well.
If parents impatiently accuse their children of being "helping badly" or doing it directly on behalf of their children, it is easy to dampen their enthusiasm for labor.
To this end, parents should allow their children to try, encourage their children to explore, and respect their labor results that have been successful or failed. Whenever children do something well, they should also give timely affirmation and encouragement so that they can experience the glory and happiness brought by labor and inspire their enthusiasm for labor.
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In addition, when children are unable to perform a certain housework activity or occasionally show resistance, parents should never blame them, and should not take coercive measures. Instead, they should think about whether the current housework activities are beyond their abilities, or give up temporarily and let them do it in another time.
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Education has never been limited to classroom learning. Various exercise opportunities in family life can bring more to children. The seemingly meaningless housework brings children independence, confidence, happiness and ability, but they are their lifelong wealth.
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