Dear Fun, Help Me Teach

With Gracie I would enjoyed to see Gracie learn through play, that included singing rhymes together and learning to count was so much fun! She loved the practicing, my sister, her Mummy had informed me that she needed Gracie to be more confident with her numbers. She often would go from four to six missing out number five! 

We enjoyed singing “one two three four five” on the bus and I had her play with her fingers to the song! It was so much fun, the rhymes we sang often had people on the bus loving it and some even sang along with us!

There is something to be said about learning by not ‘force’ or ‘you have to do this’ it is better to say “I’m going to have a go at counting” what I would then say after counting was “Gracie have a go!” Making something ordinary into something fun to do and just have a go is such an amazing gift to a child because the pressure is off and there’s no “he/she isn’t walking yet we try and make her/him but nothing happens” best to let things be to allow freedom for the child to be in charge of their own body. 

When tinies begin to walk it is the first step to independence and it is a long journey to full independence but it starts with those first few baby steps. We have to learn to let go of the reins because it would be wrong to control a child, and many parents never let go, or refuse to let go. Children need to be encouraged not doubted, everyone begins life as who they are, and there are some people who grow up and grow old doubting themselves and their abilities, this starts in formative years and defines us as adults more often than not. Be aware that you are in fact either restricting a child, defining a child by their achievements or perceived ‘failures’ at every turn. You cannot control a child to not become an adult, that’s biology, be willing to encourage and praise, not “that’s just what you’d do cause me to ‘do’ “

Children are like mirrors more on mirrors tomorrow!!