How difficult it is to keep track of the baby every mother knows. It is even more difficult to cope with raising a child, especially when it is the first-born.
Many, for sure, have heard about the education method of "lazy mother." It has become quite popular and in demand, and for good reason. Such tricks help in correcting the child’s behavior, accustoming to independence and substantial development in all aspects of life.
What are these tricks of a lazy mother who will be useful even to the most active?
- Will help: ignoring unwanted behavior
- Harm: censure, punishment, swearing and screaming
The method of encouragement and punishment is a thing of the past. Currently, it is not customary in the society to punish children for their pranks and tricks. This is especially unacceptable in relation to babies up to 3-4 years.
Many mothers advise ignoring their baby’s unwanted behavior. Seeing that one cannot achieve one’s tantrums or wrong actions, the child will try other ways. It is here that you must teach how to do the right thing.
- Helps development: pleasant surprises
- Slows down cognition processes: monotony
Children need to be surprised. Unexpected and pleasant things or actions stimulate the development of imagination and creative thinking in children. This may include even unusual games that you must play with your baby.
- Need to: tell them what they can do
- It is impossible: to say that they will not be able or not capable
Young children absorb information much better or are more enthusiastic about creativity and learning when they are not categorically prohibited.
Do not tell the baby that he will not succeed, he is not able, for example, to draw a horse or dance poorly. Instead, use substitution, say: “You are so wonderful at drawing the sun!”, “You sing so well!”
- Useful give work / assignments
- Harmful: encourage idleness
Children to whom parents entrust small tasks are accustomed to responsibility. Moreover, they feel that they are already adults and are very happy about the opportunity to prove themselves. Do not accustom your child to idleness, as this inhibits development processes.
- Need to: break large tasks into small
- It is impossible: overload the baby
Despite the fact that the child should definitely be given some kind of housework, for example, to teach him to cook or to learn how to collect toys scattered around the room, you need to know everything to the best of your ability. Here are a couple of examples.
Good: show your baby how to stir the cream cake with a spoon that you bake. Another positive example is to teach sifting flour.
Wrong: ask your child to chop an apple. This is dangerous! Never allow access to the stove.
It would seem that the tricks of a lazy mother are well known to many. Many, but not all, but most ignore them at all. However, following at least half of them will help to grow a smart and self-confident person.
