At a young age, the grasping capacity of the kids is much faster. They can remember the things very easily. The only difficulty is with understanding. Kids can be made to learn things in enjoyable ways. Children learn things faster when learning is blended with entertainment. Here are some tips to make the learning more fun for the children.
The basic learning method starts with introducing them to people, things and places around them. Children can learn these subjects through verbal communication. Kids learn these things before they turn 3. Later on, they are introduced with numbers and letters. Basic science is also introduced at same age. The science includes names of birds, animals, their sounds, trees, flowers, leaves and many similar things. These can be taught by showing them and making them feel.
Younger kids can enjoy their classes for identifying colors. Use various things in front of the colors. Like use tomato in front of red color and so on. There are toys which are specially designed for colour identification. These sets comprise of various toys like apple, flowers, ball and many more. Children can learn about the colors, names of the things and shapes simultaneously with the help of these toys. Shapes like square, circle, rectangle, triangle and oval can also be learned from the various toys.
Learning the alphabets can be fun when presented with colors or things. For example, if the letter is A, then show an apple with it. Similarly, kids will remember the alphabets as B for ball, C for Cat till Z for Zebra. Some of the things are difficult to show in real. Then show the pictures of these objects. There are books available in market, which have alphabets printed along with the pictures. Once the alphabets are known by heart, you can teach them how to write. For this purpose, you can use the boards which have the alphabets printed on them. Kids can practice writing on these boards.
Writing can be made more fun by providing the kids with colors and blank board. Children love to use colors and drawing. Use their liking for teaching them how to write. To teach the words and their meaning, you can take help of toy dictionaries. These dictionaries comprise of buttons with printed alphabets. When buttons are pressed, letters are displayed on the screen on the dictionary. You can also get talking dictionaries. These dictionaries talk the entered word. If any word is wrongly spelt, then it automatically corrects it. Separate section of the dictionary tells words with similar pronunciation, but with different spelling and meaning.
You can get some audio and video CDs for fun learning process. These CDs comprise of various songs and visuals which are made especially for kids. The downloadable software can help the kids learn about colors, counting, shapes, sizes and identifying time. Thus, there are many toys, books and visual aids which make the learning process fun for kids. Use these methods to teach kids and they'll love it, they won't even realize that they are learning something, since it's so much of fun.
The first step is to keep things age appropriate. You can teach children very young about some things. My 2-1/2 year old, for example, already knows the difference between the trash and recycle bins. He asks where to put everything.
My 5 year old is getting into reusing things. An amazing range of things are great for art projects. Old magazines, cardboard boxes, egg cartons and many other items have been saved for later projects. It saves a lot of shopping for ways to help my daughter be creative.
As they reach school age you can teach them by not sending lunches in disposable baggies or containers. At my daughter's preschool, she was pretty much the only kid to bring her drink in a cup from home and snack in reusable containers. While these are still plastic, we'll be using them for years rather than just once.
Some parts of green living are pretty easy on the kids. Throwing things in the recycle bin rather than the trash is pretty easy. Getting kids to reuse things, especially as they get older and more self conscious can be harder. The social pressures really add to the challenge.
The Shopping Challenge
Sometimes you can point out the advantages that may not be so obvious at first. If you have a good resale or thrift shop in your area, sometimes you can get fairly trendy clothes for much less than you would have paid for new. There's nothing wrong with indulging your child's desire to look good if you can show them the best ways to do so.
Handmedowns can also be an issue, but if you handle it well the clothes are more likely to be acceptable to the recipient. Go through and agree on which ones are actually wanted. The excess can be donated.
Reduce is perhaps one of the most difficult sections to handle. This is especially true when birthdays and holidays come around and you have little control over what other people give to them. We regularly go through our children's things and talk about what is ready to be sold or donated. I also very rarely buy more toys for my kids. Quite frankly, between birthdays and Christmas they end up with more than they can play with anyhow.
But as they get older the issue often drifts toward the latest fashions and/or gadgets. I've already discussed how we cope with fashion, although since my oldest is 5 I have yet to deal with a truly fashion conscious child. She only thinks she has a fashion sense. Mostly involving dresses.
Gadgets such as cell phones, MP3 players and so forth are another matter. I dislike this trend of getting children a cell phone so very young, but at the same time I really do understand and sympathize. It can be pure torture wondering what is happening at your child' school some days. I watched some mothers in my area go through that recently when their children's high school had a shooting threat.
As I see it, it's one thing to get a cell phone or other gadget, another to keep updating it with the latest technology. I decided that I didn't need a cell phone that takes pictures, for example. Mine is only about 2-1/2 years old, but I can't count how many people I know who have replaced their cell phones only because they wanted the latest addition to it. Don't give in on this and explain why.
Teaching your kids to live green will not always be easy. They will resist at least some of the time. But through the years you can give them an appreciation for the world they live in and what they can do for it.
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