Sunday, January 12, 2014

what should i be knowing before sending my 4 year old daughter to preschool?

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what should she be equipped with? i mean in terms of clothes,backpack,lunch pack.and what should she have learned by now in terms of lessons and milestones?what does potty training really mean.should she be able to go to the bathroom by herself? i mean she doesnt know how to clean up herself after peeing or doing potty.how much she should be knowing about using a school bathroom.


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She will need clothes for all different weather, here are some examples:
- Raincoat
- Warm pants
- Warm shirt
- Shorts
- Tee shirt
- Tennis shoes
- Rain boots
Usually, they will require that she has at least one extra pair of clothes at school all the time but other than that you can just dress her for what the weather is that day, layers are always good too because she will not be under prepared but she can take clothes off if she gets too hot.

Some preschools provide lunch and others require you to bring your own so you will need to check with the school. She does not need a backpack but it will probably be handy to carry things back and forth such as clothes, lunch, and art projects.

Here are the basic academic things the other kids in her class will know but are probably not required by the school:
- Singing AND saying the ABC's
- Identifying some or all of the letters in the alphabet and knowing the sounds of some or all of them
- Counting to 100 by 1's, 5's, and 10's
- Adding and subtracting simple numbers such as 1+1 or 5-2
- All the colors, shapes, opposites
- Drawing simple figures like shapes, people, and houses
- Sharing, taking turns, and good manners
- Maybe starting to read simple words
- Putting on her own clothes. including tying shoes, buttons, zippers, etc.
- Using scissors
Again, these are the things she should know at her age but preschools don't usually require it.

She should be able to use the bathroom on her own, including wiping herself off, flushing, and washing her hands afterward. They will usually send someone to stand outside the door while she is going but she should be pretty independent and they will not help her wipe off. If you want to, you can teach her basic things about using school bathrooms such as covering the seat with toilet paper.

If you think she is not quite caught up I would suggest sending her to a family daycare, they are much happier and friendlier places for children to grow up but since she is going to kindergarten soon anyways I suppose it won't hurt for her to get used to it.

Good luck!

What is a typical parent response when walking in on son having sex?




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Not the daughter but the son. How would the mother react?


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Age? I'm assuming he's living with me, not in his own home. If he's married, then I'd walk out and not say anything. If he wasn't, I'd pick up the closest long thing and start hitting and screaming, tell the girl to go to the bathroom and toss her clothes in there, and there'd be a big fight. Probably worse if his dad walked in on him.

Please note, he WOULD know that's how we'd react. Maybe not that I'd grab his backpack and start swinging it, but he would be really stupid to have sex under my roof when he's not married.

Edit: Suzy Q. It's about respect and access. First, my family is conservative, in beliefs and culture, and sex before marriage is not something I'm going to accept in my home. Not with my 40 year old sister and her 2 year fiance, not with my 14 year old kid when I have one. It's a standard, same goes for drinking or smoking or doing drugs. Second, I repeat I'm against sex before marriage, and especially underage sex. That means that I want to make it as inconvenient and problematic for them as possible, not give them a door with a lock, a box of condoms, and say "have at it." By saying "Not in my home" I take one more convenient place off the list. This may interest you. Those in my family who said "I'd rather it be done here where I can make sure they're safe" all had teen pregnancies. No joke. The more they are free to have sex, even safe sex, the more likely they're going to get an STD, a pregnancy, or emotionally be so connected to that person it messes with their life. Third, it's again respect for my beliefs. If you know someone doesn't wear shoes in their home you don't wear shoes in their home. If you know someone doesn't swear, you don't swear around them. How in the world do you expect your kids to respect your beliefs about sex before marriage if you allow them to actively disobey that in the home?

I'll say this too. Even if my religion wasn't very conservative, I've seen sex in teen years screw up way too many people. I have never met anyone where having sex in their teen years didn't mess up what they did for the next 5-10 years at least. It creates a bond, it's not just peeing in a pot. If you're not ready for a lifetime bond, you should not be having sex, and especially teens who have such impulse control problems and blowing it out of proportion problems have no business having sex. There's a reason why waiting until at least 18 is actually gaining in popularity, and it's due to studies showing that not waiting increases risks for everything from substance abuse to getting in trouble at school to going to college.

I believe in safe sex education as well, and my kids will know everything about that before they're 12 is the plan, and the basics long before then. However, they're not going to have sex under my watch, under my roof. I'll go crazy mom on them and scare them half to death so if they EVER start that where I might be around they nervously look over their shoulder every 30 seconds. There's a reason folks don't speed past a police car.

And it would be worse if it was my husband catching our son. With my daughter, it would be similar if not the same.




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