One of the greatest gifts my husband and I gave us was to enroll our children in a Montessori school when they were children. We quickly learned that even at the age of 14 months, children can learn to fend for themselves and as an active participant in family life. In fact, they can also bring in words and works of expression "Help me do it alone!"
Adapting to meet our home to our son, we find that he acted more content andless. We also benefited because our son was increasingly self-sufficient at home.
Here is a list of 10 simple changes you can make at home to support the independence of the child.
1. Liqht switch extenders
Installing some of these at home to allow the child to light in the room that must turn access. We who have made purchased from transparent plastic, so it was not an eyesore in the house. At first the child may be so excitedwant to practice turning the lights on and off. A LOT. What will happen.
2. A low cabinet in kitchen cutlery filled with a couple of cups, plates and
Give your child simple open containers full of ready-made snacks, which can be stored on a lower shelf in the pantry or refrigerator, and a small jug of juice or water. Your child will be able to help themselves. Make sure to show him how to clean themselves in our budget, we startedCloth napkins. sometimes the children of this age love, teach him to fold and put away towels.
3. Low book shelves and baskets in the living room and bedroom
Place some toys and puzzles on each shelf. Corral toys with the most interesting pieces in containers or baskets. Encourage your child to play with a toy at a time, and the toy back before choosing another. Keep stored away toys and rotate them every few weeks.
Instill a love of booksstoring books in baskets throughout the house. The children of this age through the books to enjoy what you see reflected in the world. Give them a rich selection of books with photos and images in real time-to-life animals, insects, plants and people.
4. -Size tables and chairs for children in the kitchen, common areas and rooms
Once the child has decided to train his snack or a mystery, it is a place to eat or play. We bought unfinished wood tables and legs of aHardware and painted to match our means. The legs are available in different sizes so that growth could easily replace only the legs of the table for our children. Unfinished chairs can craft stores to find. If they are too large for the child, cut the legs to adjust the size of the child.
5. Bathrooms stool to climb to reach the sink and toilet.
Choose a toilet seat or a flip-top seat that fits into a standard toilet andto reach the toilet seat for your child. This stool can also help the children reach the sink and countertop. Store your child's toothbrush and toothpaste, hairbrush and hand.
6. A chair or higher for the Learning Tower Kitchen
For a smaller tower of learning is a safe choice because the child is surrounded on all sides. What age is greater, but folding stool in order. Young children love to play with water at the sink and help withPreparing meals.
7. -Measuring Children's Home and Garden
Children find great satisfaction if they participate in the care home and garden. Give them a child-sized broom, broom and a dustpan and broom. Hardware often small broom and bucket of cheap metal. Pole of a Swiffer is adjustable and can order just the right size for your child to be made. On a small shelf, a managed basket with a spray bottle of water and a squeegeesmall washcloth for cleaning the system. Halve sponges easily in a child's hand and held in the form of a basket of small washcloth in the kitchen, clean to encourage your child.
garden tools and gloves for children are often the targets in the spring. Keep carry a small selection of vases on hand for children and flowers. See the Resources section below for links to Web sites, child-oriented products, you will not find for sale on site.
8. Double HangCloset Rod
Let your child his own clothes, using it with a rod locker, he may choose to achieve. Give clothes, and easy to pull off, easy to use with caps, buttons or velcro. A small clothes in her closet to hamper for dirty laundry. Encourage him to help with the laundry to the need to take him to take his dirty clothes and clean the disk to store hanging clothes in her closet.
9. Hook height installed on your child
InstallHook the front and rear doors so that the child can hang your coat. Hook the bathroom allow the child to hang the towel.
10. Small obstacles and extra clothing in all the bathrooms during potty training
In some children in Montessori classroom "toilet" starts from Day 1, where children cotton training pants instead of diapers gloves. To support this transition to home, there have been changes of clothes and a basket of dirty laundry in each bathroom. Each time our childrenhad an "accident", they knew they could go in any bathroom in the house and their clothing. This method of potty was very effective for our children, who were both out of diapers before they were two years.
for adapting the home environment for child development and independence is easy to make and sustain you. Children are more powerful than most adults give them credit, and the change of environment to suit their size and needs to authorizetheir growth. As you can see what your child can and respect the pride and joy of your child, as he carries out tasks in their daily lives to begin with, you will enjoy it in your house and find more opportunities to customize their environment to know to find its unity and learn to "do it yourself."
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