Imagine your child as an adult... How would your child be like in terms of character traits and qualities? With that image in mind, think about what can be done now to help your child develop skills and achieve those qualities.
Focus Areas
- people skills
- home skills
- life navigation skills
- time organization
- space organization
- money management
- healthy lifestyle skills
- healthy mind skills
- spiritual habits
- decision making skills
- creative skills
- celebration skills
Of course, our dreams and priorities might not be actualised perfectly, so we need to constantly adjust our expectations on our children. Still, I do see the need to teach Sophie life skills... to our best ability. There are just too many smart but miserable people out there who create havoc in other people's lives.
If anyone is interested, check out
Life Skills for Kids: Equipping Your Child for the Real World by Christine M. Field. It has a Christian perspective so you have to pick and choose what you find good for your own use.
haa.. agree, must teach the skills....E was in day care for almost 2.5 months...has been bitten twice by other kiddos. Hb said should teach him how to bite back ...haaa.....being bullied by others is not joke...must teach him survivor skills liao ...haaa
ReplyDeleteya, I was told at this age, some tend to bite ....I tell myself, if biting happens again, I am going to take him out of this daycare. Twice already, and why pick on Ethan? Haiz,
ReplyDeleteYa, agree, my house is in a mess, and cooking is always the simplest meal you could think of until my hb finally asked the other day, "Why do we always have fried eggs for dinner?" ....silly questions, that's the esiest to cook, duh!!"
ya, I was told at this age, some tend to bite ....I tell myself, if biting happens again, I am going to take him out of this daycare. Twice already, and why pick on Ethan? Haiz,
ReplyDeleteYa, agree, my house is in a mess, and cooking is always the simplest meal you could think of until my hb finally asked the other day, "Why do we always have fried eggs for dinner?" ....silly questions, that's the esiest to cook, duh!!"
so far xiaoci has no biting problem, but she complains of naughty boys. Also observed tat she tends to be upset when no one plays with her.
ReplyDeletePoor Ethan... wat is the daycare doing abt it?
ReplyDeletetink children need to learn how to make frens n deal with disappointment n rejection also...
I complained to the teacher, and she said it's commmon at this age to bite, but twice leh..cannot take it....they only wrote accident report, and just told the kids who bit him not to do that anymore. I was thinking, the teacher should be vigilant in watching over the kiddos. As what my hb said lo, teach E to bite back ...haaa....talking about making friends, I was at the daycare to observe during my spring break, seems like kids at this age don't play with one another. Each will do their own things, and I didn't see E playing with anyone nor anyone approach him to play with him. They are just like in their own world, each play with their own found toys. Teacher told me it's common that at this age, they don't play with one another. From what I observe for that couple of days, seems very true.
ReplyDeleteTrue, they do solitary n parallel play (play on their own beside one another) until mayb 3 yrs old then they start to do associative play (with others) n finally cooperative play by any 5 yrs old... But exposure to daycare speeds thgs up a little... So Ethan mayb playing wif others as early as preschool age! I think Sophie was playing with Phoebe n Xiao Ci when they had moments alone... Then again, setting matters.
ReplyDeletehaiz, my main purpose sending him to day care is to get him associate with other kiddos, and seems like he plays by himself most of the time and kind of defeat my purpose. I would say day care will get him a head start learning to play with others, but think about it, since the kids don't play with one another now, maybe I should rethink of putting him there everyday...rather he spend time with me learning other things as the kiddos don't play with one another there...haiz ...will pull him out from everyday to 3 days a week instead, starting next week......
ReplyDeleteI m sure they have circle time n playground time rite? Or even learning stations? They will socialize one... At least now he is less clingy rite? He is learning independence self help skills... Fr wat I read, they will learn social skills even if u put them on daycare for v short hrs daily... So I guess 3 days a week also ok
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