Children and games.- What will happen, if I get to a witch?- my son has asked, preparing to jump. The Big marsh - properties of the Witch, - we have designated to the blue square of a floor carpet. Behind it showed dark the pattern of Magic Mountains, where it was possible to score extra points.- You should read the English text, and she will fall asleep, and you will be able to run away from her griddle, - I answered. English came hardly to my son recently. Each time, when my child reached a definite place on his difficult way, the task varied. Now he should compose the proposals in English, now he should read the text, now he should simply to answer questions on a history. We did the lessons like so. Probably, the game for the human being is as natural part of life, as for animal. Remember the cat, which one brings to its babies the alive mouse. In this game a kitten studies to hunt. The child can play for hours and lives for the game. He superimposes on the daily boring world his joyful fantastic one. He grows and perceives the surrounding area. And while there is mum near to kid , the "mum - child" relation unites in a single whole two beings. I think, that the principal aim for the parents should be primordially don't lose this connection. It is then that the discovering of world happens without fear, with interest and curiosity. The negative result is not terrible - mum will kiss and the pain will end up, but at the same time the kid has gained experience (the next time he will select an alternative variant of actions). The game helps to keep relationship with the child and parents. One of the first problem for the parent, with which one he faces, - is to force his child to eat that he does not want. If to transform this problem into the game, any child will eat everything necessary food without efforts. Certainly, it is much more cheerfully to play at airplane, than simply eating the bothered porridge. The task to tie up the shoe-laces can turn into a conversation of two magic small worms. Children live in a colorful world, where the miracles happen much most often, than ordinary events. Any boring subject becomes interesting and cheerful if you play with it! But look here, all parents know that even the obstinacy and whims of the child they mostly can overcome, switched his attention to game. The kid gradually grows, and after four years he already can speak, and sometimes can read. Now parent needs even greater fantasy, in order that the eyes of the child kindle with curiosity. For instance, you can offer him to compose ridiculous rhymes or invent an exotic gift to himself. It is possible to inculcate an interest in study of the surrounding world combining the game with education. You can help the child simply accept some situations or teach him reacting correctly to them. And training games give the best fit for that. For example, play at "rescue princess ", having drawn a road to bewitched castle and invented obstacles. It is possible to ask your child to draw a horse, to reach the purpose faster, in other case - name the berries to feed a dwarf, further - to sing a song, to tell a rhyme, to say a word in French(in German), and it is possible to invent plenty of things! But you can play at the role game , and your child can invent the script , while you can introduce amendments. But the main thing in all cases - you will be near by him, your imagination will wake his abilities and will give him self-reliance. And the relationship of souls will get stronger and will deepen. You will become the friends. But here your kid went to school. And after the pleasure and pride of the first days little by little appear new problems . It turns out, that your child does not like to learn lessons at all, and almost impossible to make him to do them. The stage of 6-7 years is very complex. The child's careless life changes absolutely. Certainly, it is a stress for him. And for many children the duty to do homeworks is unpleasant and boring. And parents often are unable to spend the time for help their child with lessons. And a thin thread, connecting in integer child and mum, here can break off. You will help the training games therein! You see, it is much more interesting to turn into the queen Arithmetics or page Multiplying, to practice in memorizing of the multiplication table, than to cram in tears the same thing. Certainly, if the parents can not engage with the child, grandparents should come to the rescue. Dream up, play! For example, when I have seen, that my son did not like geography, we draw a map of a magic planet. There was everything like in the school-book - oceans, continents, parallels and meridians. And day after day we traveled the islands, cities, memorizing in passing an information of the textbook. And then we made the topographic map of our flat. The sofa has turned into a ridge, an armchair - into a lake, and the book case - into the populous city. There were swamps and rivers and a path, which we formed in search of treasure. En route we fixed the old knowledges and got new ones. And then we went in for history. On the floor we performed the battles and, honestly speaking, sometimes I wanted so much to change the course of events in our own way! The most difficult (but also more interesting!) was to learn a foreign language - it was necessary to combine some games - we went to free the princess, who languished in jail , and each barrier was a certain task. In magic country nobody spoke our language and it was necessary to communicate French. There is just the game justifies the foreign speech, makes sensible the simplest expression. Certainly, it is necessary, that it would be interesting to the child. If in the game there are a lot of rules and mechanical operations, he will be bored. It is possible to use not only toys, but also any other things - all depends on your imagination. The child during the game studies to change words, select the necessary word on sense, construct simple phrases. Our scenarios were not composed and we needed to respond at once, but how was cheerful to invent a worthy output from absurd situations! When we bought a computer, my son certainly was interested in it. As a result of such sitting before a screen were bad marks at school. We still played our games, but he looked at the computer with longing more often. And then we got down together to computer games. Now we passed from a world to world: for example, on a history we were looking the computer encyclopedia, then playing a scene of a task, and then answering the questions on this subject in thematic СD - tutor. And else he drew all that he learned at school - landscapes on geography, animals on biology, and historical events, in his liked program VRML he built different castles and labyrinths.Certainly, all these things were far from perfection, but it was interesting. Both of us took a great interest in a process of the game, and how it was amusing for me to construct barriers for my son! And then during the long time we were remembering the ridiculous situations and laughed . This joyful atmosphere of contact with each other became customary for both of us. We felt one another so close, that could guess the thoughts. Certainly, sometimes my son was capricious and went away to learn lessons all alone. But I obtained just that! The main thing that base knowledges about subject he has received with positive emotions. And then it is possible to interest seriously in science. At school is required the simple memorization of dates, names, formulas. The game gives emotional tint to any subject, that's why the learning process is simplified and the knowledge is saved longer. In general, the creation of gaming situations - is the most unfailing remedy to teach everything, not wearing the pupil and not boring him. The child lives in the world invented by him, consisting of the heroes of fairy tales and magic things. Parents fail to return there hardly ever - too firmly keeps us serious businesses. Or yet " the adult games of grown-up people"? And if so, maybe, it is worth to try to return? And it will turn out, that it is not so difficult - the children's imagination is borderless, you see. You will find out your children from the unexpected side. And your relationships become the other - close, open, confidence. My son studies already in the high class, where all things are almost as in adult life. We are close friends. He likes many school subjects, and he is devoted seriously to some of them. But sometimes he remembers our games. And then we again come back together in those magic world of the freedom of creativity, joy and love. |