Showing posts with label Bonding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonding. Show all posts

Monday, November 8, 2010

Bonding with your children with educational puzzles

My kids would not let me go mystery even to them. A nearly 6 and 8 years, still love, but she just four pieces of the puzzle. I'm not a saver. I always look forward to a couple of things at any time the truck goes through our neighborhood to donate. However, every time I bring up the disposal of a puzzle, one or both objects.

On the contrary, my daughter tried to save everything from candy to toys packaging materials drya flower from our garden. Well, it's summer break, I tried again a few points, including a mystery that I hoped would agree, she was really too big to inherit. So his answer was, "Mom, you should, when I save a little girl, and you are a grandmother." My thoughts are growing rapidly switched from it to give some to find out how you can stay under 5 years old forever!

So, I came to do with it and decided to make my own battles. Irecognize that it's great that she's still enjoying it. Although, I did a little 'more difficult because these days, I am a mixture of song all are easier to screen for them. I feel like I've been more valuable than my money from these purchases. In addition, they take up little space, especially since we have a lot shelf 'puzzle. (By correctly, I think nice friends and help tidy up the playroom!) A and the games, I alsoEnjoy the opportunity, they remember the days when these puzzles have been a real challenge. How the brain would just worked so hard to fit back together again. I would think just turn, turn. It 'been so hard for me to "help" to stop. On the other hand, after it was so nice to see how they feel victorious.

The puzzles are much more than toys. I like the connection time while working on them with my children. Not to mentionall the benefits of development and educational value.

Toy Jumbo knob puzzles including, soil, awkward and puzzles provide the opportunity to hand-eye coordination exercise and promote visual-spatial perception. Then there is the social component. This encourages children to collaborate and work. Next, problem solving skills are used. Where once there was a picture, now there are several parts of an image. How can the image again? Last butcertainly not least, there is the aspect of manipulation of motor parts for them in their respective positions. I particularly value the puzzle that are developmentally appropriate for the child, or an entity that promotes higher-order thinking. These types of puzzles have more value in our home. often lead to discussions on many topics. Both businesses, the sounds of animals, weather, traffic, dressing,Counting, the alphabet, the human body, dinosaurs, and so on to give a riddle opportunity to intervene in a very casual wonder of the child.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Make Playtime a Bonding Time For You and Your Kid

Toys are a kid's best friends. They entertain him and give him hours of fun and enjoyment. They educate him by introducing him to the world around him and by engaging him in mind enriching activities that hone his imagination, motor skills, hand to eye coordination among many others. Toys especially the educational ones indeed play an important role in your kid's developmental progress.

But even so, toys can never take the place of parents. Toys can never be substitutes for the love, care and attention that only parents and dedicated caregivers can give. That is why, even though you provide your kid with abundant educational toys, it is still very important that you're there to play with him, guide him and support him during his playtime adventures.

Here are some ways on how you can make playtime a fun bonding time for you and your kid.

1. Create games that are educational for your kid and fun for the both of you. For example, Simon says, an amusing game that will give your kid the opportunity to mimic what adults do in the real world (talk on the phone, sweep the floor), improve his physical skills (jump, run or dance) and enable him to gain a better sense of spatial relations. Create a variation of this game by allowing your kid to take the role of Simon after a while and you will have to imitate his actions. This will not only give him elementary leadership skills but will also surely elicit fits of laughter from both of you.

2. Engage him in mind enriching activities wherein you can participate and guide him. Assembling jigsaw puzzles are fun for any kid especially if he's putting together pieces of his favourite cartoon character. This is also an excellent mind stimulating activity where his visual discrimination, spatial and fine motor skills are being honed. Help him learn about shapes and sizes by guiding him with his puzzle solving adventures. Just be sure that you're patient enough and that you give your kid ample time to figure the puzzle out by himself with only minimal supervision from you. If you put together the entire puzzle for him, it defeats the learning purpose of the activity.

3. Give him mind stimulating toys that you can join him in playing. Building toys are great for parent child bonding. Wooden train sets like the Wooden 120 Piece Train Set in a Tub for example will engage you and your kid in hours of building fun. Create communities by constructing buildings, bridges, and trains. Toys like these are terrific in inciting your kid's creativity and imagination.

4. Interact with your kid as you play. One of the things that toys will not be able to provide your kid is human interaction. That is why it is imperative that you shower your kid with opportunities for parent-child conversations. Talk about anything under the sun, talk to him about your day at work or about how things work while you stack blocks or play with his puppets. Ask him to tell you about his day in pre-school, about the new friends he's met or make him ask you about things he wants to know about.

5. Be supportive with your kid. At this stage where his imagination is very active, you'll find him busy in his imaginative pretend plays where he pretends to be a superhero or a fairytale prince. He'll also likely to have a lot of make-believe stories that he will tell you about like his adventures in outer space. Never discourage him from doing these activities or dismiss his stories as nonsense for these will inhibit the growth of his imagination. Instead, encourage pretend plays by allowing him to live in his fantasy world, and listen and be interested to the stories he has to tell.

Being a parent is never an easy task with all the responsibilities and pressures that come with it. But having a child is one of the greatest rewards you can have in your lifetime and you should enjoy every moment with it by spending time with your beloved little one.