All parents want their child to grow up to be a responsible social individual. We want our child to relate to others, to make friends, to follow social norms, to be courteous to others, to be friendly and so on. Most of the socializing takes place at preschool & daycare. Children have conversations with other children and educators as well. At Aajol our preschool and daycare educators & caregivers help children socialize through group activities.
The most effective way to help a child learn anything is to model it for them. The way you communicate with your milkman, the person who takes away the garbage, your neighbours, the auto/cab driver, the vegetable vendor, the person at the billing counters, your friends, relatives and so on is going to create a strong template for your child to follow.
After around the age or three- three and a half, the social worlds of the child expand. Around this time, it becomes important for us to teach our child some rules when it comes to socialising. For example, when you greet your watchman, you can ask your child explicitly to greet them too. We also need to gently, calmly and firmly convey what some do’s and don’ts around communicating with others.
Around the same age, empathy starts to develop. This becomes a good time to have conversations around not using certain words or saying certain things because they may hurt the other person’s feelings. Aajol helps children to navigate through these new found feelings via counselling of children and parents making us the best preschool and daycare in Pune.
Activity:
- Make sure you are doing all the things that you expect your child to do when it comes to socialisation.
- Make sure you are gentle and respectful and considerate and courteous and so on when it comes to socialising if you want your child to be all that.
- Discuss with your family and identify what is not okay to say or do for the child and make sure that it is conveyed to the child in a gentle way. Eg name calling is not okay or not greeting your neighbor is not okay, etc.
- Make sure to be patient if you need to explain these things to your child again and again.