Family Tips

It would be ridiculous to offer a five years’ old kid to choose the nurse, products in a supermarket or a schedule of a day. Nevertheless even small children should learn to make a choice. The small child should be given so-called «choice in a framework». Something similar makes an advertisement with us, asking which hamburgers do we prefer: round or square? Willy-nilly we should think of it, even if we do not favor these hamburgers.

Precisely the same thing is with the child: you should not discuss or lecture on advantages of movement and fresh air, it is enough to ask: «Where shall we go today: to a children’s playground near a house or to the park?»; «What will you drink: water or juice?»; «Will you put your toys in order now or after a walk?».

Such questions put limits: they do not allow the child to decide whether to remove toys or not. But they allow to make the choice, and the child will do cleaning more responsibly if it is his or her own decision.
As a whole, till 5 years age children are better to be offered a choice of one of two variants, and in a further their amount is gradually increased.