Books For Children As A Helper

How can your child learn patterns of behavior? Your kid can do this in the same way, as he or she learns to do all other things: adopting everything that he or she sees around. Literature plays the major role here, because bright images and fascinating plots can impress on memory and provoke deep reflections.

Earlier the majority of children’s books, films, performances were oriented not only on entertainment, but also education. Then society seeled towards its entertaining nature. Now we start to reap the fruits of these educational experiments. Impoverished perception of our children is obvious. It is even on their faces: they have impoverished facial expression. It is hard for most of them to show even the simplest emotions such as pleasure, sadness, joy, offence. Much worse than earlier different traits are identified by today’s children. You will tell them uncomplicated tale about rude or, for example, bone idle personages, and place a question “What character do these people or animals have?” and will hear “they were terrible…”. Only after different leading questions, which really contain direct help (“Girl was bone idle to get up early, she was bone idle to comb her hair and make the bed, so, it means that she was…), only then somebody will guess to name right epithet.

So, emotionally-moral development of your children should be number one, and you can do this using excellent children’s books. Of course, this conception doesn’t mean complete ejection of an entertaining element, but, the most part of your home library should not only amuse your child but also teach and develop him or her.

Discuss everything that you read. Direct children’s reflections to characters of personages, their feelings and reasons of their behavior.

Place more questions, because discussions of adults with children quite often turn into moralizing monologues during which your child goes out as usual and hears nothing.

It is necessary not only to discuss books read with preschool and junior school children, but also to try to dramatize it, stage adaptation allows to make them clear very many things and do this without attracting attention to moralistic element in it. They start to know different things, which you lost hope to clarify.

If you want the book to help your child to overcome his or her psychological problems (for example, fears, avarice or obstinacy), don’t use it with slogans like “real men (excellent children, obedient girls) do like this, but you …”. Even hidden reproach will offend your child, who worries about this defect, but doesn’t want to hear about it.

Help your kid, using the best children’s books, which you can find on our site.