THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY IN EDUCATION OF CHILD 

Your role in education of child gains more importance with the holiday of schools. Your child’s learning process is permanent developing subject so parents’  behaviours in this period is important.

During school period,  the children gain new skills with the activities that they learnt in the school. School period is very important for development of children but also family has vital importance for the development of children like this period. Your role increases with the holiday of schools. The learning period of the children continues in the holiday so you have to evaluate this period.

You should preserve your parents role by having qualified time with your child by contributing  his/her development. You should change your common living places to teaching areas without going at. You can investigate the hidden informations around you. For an example, while you are in the kitchen, you can play games to develop his/her concept and muscle skills. Count the needed materials which is needed to cook your meal. Put your materials on the table and group the materials according to their  features. You can ask questions as which colour or which shape. While you are cooking you can explain by using the concepts ‘before’, ‘after’ for teaching the concepts and teach how to organize a duty.

Children like to play in the kithchen but also they like to play with water and creating stories. You can combine these two activities. After every bath, you can create new stories with the fume on the mirror. This will help him/her to develop his/her language development and imagination.

For  most parents especially for working ones weekends are most important periods for house requirements. You can change this period to joyful time with your children. To develop your children’s  location concept, you can tell your children where you will go. Want him to remind you which direction you will go and which districts you will pass. Tell him/her to tell what s/he sees around him/her.

Do not forget that every activity that you will perform together will support his/her emotional development and will support smiling on your children’s face.

Resorces: Mother and Baby, Ayfer Erdem Batı, July 2012.