Top 10 tips for first-graders' parents

First time in first class! Every year of this day thousands of young first-graders are waiting anxiously. They still do not know what awaits them ahead, what difficulties and joys, excitements and victories. For the parents of young pupils, the first months at school become a real exam for restraint and patience.

To help your child step over the school threshold without stress, loss and emotion will help simple tips collected in today's Top 10 tips for parents of first-graders .

10. Watch your own behavior

All parental anxieties are reflected on the face, and children are wonderful psychologists - they readand immediately transfer themselves to Mom or Dad's attitude to any subject. Naturally, it will be harder for those kids, whose parents are nervous and worried on the threshold of the beginning of studies. But positive and calm parents will surely give the child a positive charge.

9. Develop independence

Independently collect a portfolio, prepare a school uniform, set an alarm for the morning. .. It's great if all these things the child will get used to doing on his own. Naturally, under tacit control from the parents, which should be as inconspicuous as possible.

8. Do not frighten the school

You should never tell a future first-grader: "Here at school you will be weaned from pampering!", "In the lessons of silk will make you", etc. Such statements will form a strong reluctance to go to the institution, where there is a deliberate drill and nothing else.

7. Share the experience of

Get old photos - let the child see how Dad for the first time bears a bouquet to his teacher, and Mom draws his hand in an open lesson. Remember funny and interesting stories from your own school life. Certainly the experience of parents will help the baby to tune in and look forward to starting the classes.

6. Buy school supplies together

Let the kid participate in the choice of a pencil case, knapsack and other things. Do not bother if the eraser or backpack is your favorite cartoon hero. After all, the things that we love bring positive emotions, so important for the first-grader. Naturally, do not overdo it - excessively bright notebooks and stationery can be distracting from classes.

5. Pre-accustom to the school regime

If the child is not used to getting up early, it will be very hard for him to start the class. It is better to get used to the new regime for 2-3 weeks before September 1.But in the last few days it is not too late to start - tell the child how the student's day is built, when the ascent, how much it takes to go to school, what a change is, etc.

4. Play the school

Children most easily perceive new knowledge in a playful form. Therefore it is necessary to play the school with the future first-grader. Let the child get used to respond when the teacher asks, let him try to go to an improvised board and work on his first prescriptions.

3. Leave the time and place for the games

Despite the fact that the game activity of the student is gradually moving to the background, do not get rid of toys. Let the child have time and place for his favorite entertainment. With toys the kid can relax, distract and really relax.

2. Prepare a place for classes at home

A convenient place for preparing homework should, of course, please the child. Conduct an analogy with the workplace of an adult - let the son or daughter take pride in their new table. Well, do not forget about the pleasant little things that a child can choose himself - pencil with your favorite cartoon hero or a bright table lamp.

1. Conduct a tour of the school

An unfamiliar environment always scares. But if you start to walk in advance in the evenings in the schoolyard, and in the daytime go into the building, show the kid school classes and corridors, the school will immediately become more familiar and less frightening.