Helping Preschoolers
Helping Preschoolers
- Young children can be willing helpers and enjoy the responsibility.
- How children help at home varies greatly from family to family and culture to culture. Each family needs to decide what children will do at home to help.
- Preschoolers generally like to help when you are doing something. Small tasks are easy to achieve and each success will encourage them to help again.
- Getting things started:
- start with something they like to do.
- join in and show them what you want as you go.
- explain why you do things.
- make it fun! You could add a song or chat about how it feels good to help.
- gradually do less yourself while still encouraging the child.
- talk about you doing your job while your child does their job.
- comment on effort made and avoid pointing out more than one mistake.
- Preschoolers can:
- put their dirty clothes in the wash basket
- pour themselves a drink from a small jug
- wash their own plate
- pack away a few things
- put on some of their clothes
- butter their toast
- water the garden
- feed the pets and get the mail
- tidy their room
- help make their bed.
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