Tuesday 7 June 2011

Adapting to School

Making the children adapt to school environment is a tough job. However it is necessary and inevitable. This should be done in a friendly manner and should not hurt the child. Till the child adapts to school environment, parents should show patience.

Children, who grew up in the home environment, usually resist going to school. They did not like to sit in a class room for hours. The class room environment did not allow them home like such facility. At home, children move around the home, eat, drink and play and behave in the way they desire.

But at school, the moving area becomes much smaller and there would be other children usually from 20 to 30. This environment would be new to children and some adapt immediately and some others take some time. At this stage, children feel some pressure. This should be understood by parents.

At home, children did not have a time table or a time to time activity. But at school, this will change and there would be time table and time to time schedules. Children would be insisted to do some work in a little time, to which they are not yet ready. This type of environment prevails for two or three years and it takes time for the child to adapt to the environment.

At school, children did not have individual attention like at home, and they would be one among the 20 to 30 children.  This makes them to fear about. Child has to do certain activities under supervision of teachers and before other children. Some children will perform easily and some fear to do it.

As soon as the school days begin, their regular schedule will alter. They have to wake at a certain time in the morning and complete their preparation as quick as possible. Children have to pick up the school bus and reach in time. If they do some late, will miss the but and also miss the school.

Some schools punish the children those are late to school and this makes children to feel ashamed. Teachers would watch them closely and report whatever wrongs takes place. If the child do some wrong, this will be informed to the parents and they question the children about that.

In this backdrop one could imagine how much stress a child has to bear when they are send to school. Usually children will have lot of fear and the school environment frightens them. So making the children to adapt to the school environment a tougher job.

To allow the children to adapt to the school environment easily, parents have to take certain precautions. For some months in the early days, they should not insist their offspring to go to school  regularly. If the child did not want to go to school, it should be allowed to do so.

If the child did not want to go to school for days together, then parents should step in, shall try to find out the problem. They must know what is preventing the kid from going to school and do any other child or senior boys have become a threat. This type of conditions should be reported to the school teachers and make the child to feel secure.

Parents must know what happened in the school and any home work has been assigned. They have to observe whether the child is completing the home work every day or keeping them in pending.

In the weekends children should be allowed to do what they want and should see that they become fresh on first week day of the school.

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