5 ways to spend time with your child, if you only have 20 minutes to spare
Relations A Life / / December 19, 2019
Almost every working mom wondering how to maintain a strong bond with the child at a constant workload. But the essence of the communication lies not so much in the amount of time spent together, how much of its quality. In 20 minutes you can fit something that many spend the whole day.
Victoria Shimanskaya
Psychologist, author of methods of integrated development of emotional intelligence of children "Monsiki 'author the eponymous series of books, a leading Russian expert on the development of emotional intelligence and the mother of two children.
1. box of emotions
Create your box of emotions. Make it very simple. Choose a current topic, such as the spring, and collect all the items reminiscent of her hearing, taste, smell, sight and touch.
How your child perceives the spring? Maybe it reminds him of the birds chirping outside the window? The taste of spring may be similar to the taste of early apples, and her scent like the smell of melting snow. In the spring our eyes rejoice in the blue sky and bright sun, and in the hands felt the chill of winter hardly retreated. Put it all into one box - toy birds, apples, sky and sun image.
Discussing any chosen topic so you are with your child as much as possible zadeystvuete all the senses. So you will be able to discuss with him different feelings such as joy or sadness. This will teach the child to better understand their own and others' emotions, then it emotional intelligence will develop.
2. Seven types of content
Pick any topic that might interest your child and create seven different options for presenting this topic. This is an ideal exercise for the development of imagination and creativity. For example, your theme - "The Planets."
- Poster. It can be considered a planet on a large poster, studying their form, color and location.
- Hack. To create a home planetarium can be inflated balloons of different sizes and colors and hang them on the ceiling or walls.
- Theatre. Act out the movement of the planets in their orbits.
- Modeling. Blindly with the child of the planet, so they were like the real thing. Make Mars Red, green and blue earth and moon gray. In this case, the Moon must be smaller than the Earth in size.
- Drawing. Draw or paint pencils space with planets.
- Story. What could be more interesting than reading children's books about the birth of the universe? Something still can - create their own stories about the planets.
- Visual representation. If you have a telescope at home, in the evening you can look at the starry sky and to all the planets.
You can advance to come up with 10 interesting themes for this exercise, then you will be ready to forward to an exciting program for three months. It's not only will develop a childBut also give a vivid and unforgettable emotions and impressions.
3. Sand therapy
Sandbox - a special world for a child, in which he makes the rules.
The independence of the game teaches children to prioritize and make the right decisions in adulthood.
It is therefore important to give the child as many opportunities to play with the sand.
In our case the ideal angular sand, which was created specifically for the game at home. Build together with the baby a beautiful castle or interesting shapes, create with it the same fairy-tale world in which children feel most comfortable with.
This not only compensates for the lack of your attention when you are busy with work, but also well-developed creativity, creativity, imagination, regulates the mechanisms of thinking and develops fine motility.
4. smart modeling
Modeling clay emotionally incredibly useful, because it allows the child to express their feelings and emotions, it helps him to relax and completely surrender to creativity. However, modeling with his mother could be more useful if you include in this occupation training elements.
For example, you can teach a child to numbers and letters, blind them with him from clay. Sculpt interesting figures of different colors and different thicknesses.
For example, if the number 1 cut from a thick red clay, it will seem very strong. And if the deuce blind from fine white clay, it will seem less edinichki. Connect your imagination, invent, observe the reaction of the child and keep only the theme that gives him emotions and interest.
So you not only spend a fun time, but also to teach a child numbers, letters, help him develop imagination and abstract thinking.
5. Reading with a twist
Reading fairy tales can be more fun, if you choose to book with entertaining exercises and educational games.
After each tell the tale, you can use the imagination of the child, offering him to play in a game or thematic perform interesting job.
An indispensable tool can be book "Monsiki. What are emotions and how to be friends with them. " Each story reveals Monsikov fabulous for your child one of the emotions, and each task helps to understand the emotion and control it. It is fascinating reading give you and your child a lot of pleasant experiences and moments of happiness.
Even if you can not today be given to your child time, your every smile, a look, or momentary communication is invaluable for him. These moments are always filled with warmth and love of a child.
How much would you have paid any time a child, every minute The performed together can be incredibly interesting, vivid and memorable. Create your own world with your child, invent, create and feel!