Now the kids go to school a year earlier than in the time of their mom and dad. And often, no matter whether on the preparation courses child to attend school, parents worry whether their child is ready to go to the first grade this year. And this is absolutely correct. Child psychologists are unanimous in this issue: all individually. Someone may well go to school, not even celebrated its sixth anniversary, and who is better to wait for 7 years. An excessive load, which "supply" of children in elementary school can harm both psycho-emotional and physical health of the kid.
To determine the child's readiness for school not have to go to a psychologist, it is quite possible to do it yourself with the help of simple tests.
Physiological readiness. In the body, the physiological development of the child is closely related to psycho-emotional. The future student must pass the "Waist High growth spurt" when the limb in children significantly lengthened.
Check out this easy. Ask crumbs, raising his right hand over his head, to reach the left ear, and vice versa - left to right. If it is easy to manage, you can buy a school uniform.
Psychological readiness.Draw on a sheet of paper with a compass circle 2.5 cm in diameter. Ask the kid, so he is not taking his hands, gently circle around the contour. If the job seemed fairly simple and enough perseverance and patience to execute it without whims and tantrums - it is an indicator that it is time to go to the first class.
If you wish to perform the task at crumbs no, he is nervous or he can not, do not force it. Everything has its time. It is better to postpone the visit to the school until next year.
Change of teeth.According to this method determines readiness for school even our parents. And, perhaps, and their parents. But it really works. Originally this technique from Asia. Parents Japanese kids are sure that the baby "opened mind" when it began to be replaced by milk teeth root. In ancient Japan, a man who had fallen at least one milk tooth was considered an adult so that he could be responsible before the law. And doctors say that the change of teeth suggests that a child's brain has reached a certain size, and the bones become stronger.
Creative method. Child psychologists say about the relationship of graphic activity the child and his psychological development. The older the child, the more detailed his drawing. For example, ask them to draw a person 3-4 years of crumbs is likely you will see in the picture "Golovonozhku", and the 5-6-year-old child in the image of man is already present in virtually all parts of body.
Look at pictures of their child, where he portrays the people, if they have not only the head, torso and limbs, but and small details - the hair, ears, fingers, eyes, nose, mouth, and most importantly clothes, it means that the crumb is quite ready to become a first-grader.
The method of the ancient Greeks.Not all of the bones in the human body are formed before birth. For example, round bone in the wrist, which is called pisiform, formed in humans at the age of 6-15 years. It is for the presence of this bone Greeks determined that the person is ready to learn. But do not worry if you can not find this bone to handle your baby. This is not a reason to abandon their studies. But her presence - a sure sign that your child's time at the desk.
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