Classic literature about raising children
“How to Love a Child” - Janusz Korczak
About the book: This is a real bible for parents and teachers and one of the few books about child psychology that has not lost its relevance more than 100 years since its publication. Polish teacher and doctor Janusz Korczak dedicated his life to working with orphans. Over the years of practice, he came to the conclusion that it is more important to love, respect and give a child freedom, rather than lecture and build a system of prohibitions. The scientist's observations and the literary talent of the lyricist add up to a soulful text full of invaluable experience.
What is the benefit: The book gives a charge of love for children and teaches a philosophy that supports the teacher in the most difficult professional moments. Korczak teaches to understand and accept children from infancy to the end of adolescence, without changing or making them “comfortable.” Learn to live with these “foreigners” who still don’t know the language and laws well.
“Everything, everything, everything about raising children” - Lyudmila Petranovskaya
About the book: The book contains three bestsellers by psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya: “If it’s difficult with a child,” “Secret support” and “Selfmom: life hacks for a working mother.” Petranovskaya examines the most common problems and crises in relationships with children and gives practical advice for each case. For example, it explains why children suddenly become hysterical and how to stop it.
What is the benefit: The author tells how to help a child get out of a conflict or difficult situation, grow harmoniously and not waste time on struggle and competition. The book teaches adults to become significant in children's lives and understand what really lies behind “bad manners.” Readers will learn why modern psychologists beg not to make children obedient.
“The Big Book of Communication with a Child” - Julia Gippenreiter
About the book: Expanded edition of Julia Gippenreiter’s bestsellers “Communicate with a child. How?”, “We continue to communicate with the child. So?" and chapters from the book “We have different characters. What should I do? Books have been republished since the 1990s, and teachers often refer to the works of the author, who is also a professor at Moscow State University and a doctor of psychological sciences. Answers to the eternal questions of several generations of parents are collected here in a collection. The book is built on the principle of small lessons.
What is the benefit: The author teaches the correct behavior with children “by contradiction”: an analysis of incorrect parenting strategies and ways to change them, ways to solve emotional difficulties and create warm, trusting relationships are provided.
How does a child's brain work?
“How to talk so children will listen, and how to listen so children will talk” - Elaine Mazlish and Adele Faber
About the book: A collection of tips on how to properly communicate with children from two psychologists and mothers of many children. Contains recommendations for building communication with children of different ages: a lot of practice, a minimum of theory.
What are the benefits: The author's methods help to conduct a dialogue with children so that they hear requests and respond to them without shouting or punishment. There are also tips on how to encourage your child to share his thoughts and feelings with adults.
"Thirty Million Words" - Dana Susskind
About the book: Professor, pediatric cochlear implantation surgeon from Chicago Dana Susskind talks about a study among children with congenital hearing impairments and their rehabilitation after implant installation. It turned out that children with the same initial data, who underwent surgery at the same age, recovered differently only because of the way their parents communicated with them.
What is the benefit: Data is provided on the influence of adult speech on children under four years of age, which helps to learn what words to use and how to construct sentences, why it is better to call a child a “helper” rather than asking for his help directly, and how many words per day are needed for development of the child's brain.
"The Emotional Intelligence of a Child" - John Gottman
What: Family psychologist John Gottman believes that in the last couple of decades, simply loving a child and adhering to certain parenting tactics is not enough, and one of the first skills that children should be taught is the ability to recognize their own emotions.
What is the benefit: Adults who read the book will be able to explain their emotions to children and thus influence their behavior and correct it. There are recommendations for building emotional education, which is aimed at eliminating nervousness and irritability in relationships between children and adults, reducing the level of anxiety and insecurity in children.
“How to stop snapping at your children” - Carla Naumburg
About what: The author, a sociologist and mother of two daughters, admits that she also had breakdowns and hysterics in her life. And most of the advice from the Internet was only about how to deal with these outbreaks. But jumping or screaming alone to relieve negative emotions is not the solution: sometimes being a parent 24/7 is too difficult. Carla offers her own ways of avoiding irritability and guilt in parenting.
What is the benefit: The book was written for parents, but kindergarten teachers have similar problems. How can you not break down and scream if 25 three-year-olds don’t hear the request to calm down? The author talks about what becomes the trigger for anxiety and the trigger for rage and screaming. This allows you to extinguish negative emotions in the “bud”, because the breakdown itself cannot be controlled and willpower alone will not get rid of it.
“We develop by playing.” Educational and methodological manual for educators and parents of children.
Elena Valentinovna Voronina
“We develop by playing.” Educational and methodological manual for educators and parents of children.
“We develop by playing”
In order for our children to have a happy childhood, play should occupy the main place in their lives. In childhood, a child has a need to play. And it must be satisfied not because work takes time, fun takes an hour, but because while playing, the child learns and experiences life.
This album presents manuals from non-standard materials for children's play activities aimed at their mastering sensory standards. The use of modern materials in teacher practice that meet aesthetic, hygienic and pedagogical requirements is very justified.
Didactic manual “Flower Glade”
To develop children's imagination and the formation of visual-motor coordination based on actions with objects, a didactic manual “Flower Glade” was produced. It attracts attention with its brightness and interesting content.
Description of the manual: The manual consists of a board with glued flowers made of self-adhesive film; in the center of the flower there is a hole cut into which the necks of bottles of different sizes are glued. There are plugs screwed onto the necks.
Examples of didactic games and tasks using the “Flower Glade” manual.
Goal: consolidation of knowledge of size; colors; development of hand motor skills.
“Pick the middle to the flower”
“Wrap the largest center of the flower. The smallest one"
“Wrap the red center of the flower. White"
Didactic manual “Finger dry pool”
Dry pool - used for simultaneous active stimulation on various points of the hands, fingers, palms; sensorimotor development, the formation of basic sensory standards: shape, size, material, weight, sound; fostering perseverance and patience in work; relieving emotional stress. It’s very simple to make: fill the Kinder Surprise capsules with various fillings (rice, peas, beans, cover them with thermal film for Easter eggs, put them in a small deep plastic container, hide the Kinder Surprise toys at the bottom.
Ask your baby to look for various small objects or toys in the dry pool. By plunging as deeply as possible into the filler, the child’s hands are massaged, the fingers become more sensitive, and their movements become coordinated.
This manual can be used in music classes.
Didactic game “Beads from salt dough”
Goal: strengthening and development of fine motor skills, visual-motor coordination; developing the ability to combine colors; development of concentration; development of perseverance, accuracy, children's creativity, a sense of beauty in one's own work and the work of other children; learning how to work from a sample and create your own product.
This benefit can be done by the child himself, with a little help from an adult. Dough modeling really helps develop a child's motor skills. After all, a baby can change the shape of an object from a spherical shape to a square or triangular one. And, taking a piece of dough in his hands, he can feel its weight, heaviness and viscosity.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Prepare salt dough (mix 1 glass of “Extra” salt, 1 glass of flour, 0.5 cups of cold water, leave for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator, form balls, make holes in them using a cocktail straw, leave until completely dry. Beads ready!
Didactic manual “Place the eggs in your houses”
Goal: to develop the ability to distinguish and correctly name the 4 primary colors;
learn to combine a testicle with a cell, perform correlating actions (color guide); act purposefully, sequentially: from left to right, without skipping cells; develop fine motor skills of the fingers.
Description of the tutorial: Paint the cells of the egg container with the main colors and varnish them. We tie the Kinder Surprise capsules in the appropriate color.
The result is a bright and beautiful manual.
Children must arrange the eggs into houses according to their color.
If possible, name the color of the eggs and the color of the houses.
Didactic manual “Place the pencils in cups.”
Goal: to develop the ability to distinguish colors; learn to combine a pencil with a glass; act purposefully, sequentially: from left to right; develop fine motor skills of the fingers.
Description of the tutorial: Cut out rectangles and pencil shapes from ceiling tiles. We cover the rectangles to the middle with squares of self-adhesive film of different colors. We paste the pencils with the corresponding colors. Fast, beautiful, economical!
Didactic manual “Ladybug find your clearing”
Goal: distinguish colors and understand color names, learn to select objects of the same color.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
We make ladybugs from disks, covering them with self-adhesive film. We cut out flowers from linoleum and paste them with the corresponding colors. Leave part of the disc unpasted so that when a ray of sunlight hits it, it will glare. The manual attracts attention with its brightness and interesting content, and children enjoy working with it.
"Sensory trail for feet"
This is a maple track on which materials of different textures are sewn. The variety of sensations makes walking along the path exciting. Such walking is useful for the development of tactile perception, as well as for coordination of movements and the prevention of flat feet. For a more complete experience, it is recommended to walk barefoot or wear thin socks.
Didactic manual “Mosaic”
Assembling a jigsaw puzzle is very important for a child’s mental development.
Playing with mosaics involves fine motor skills of the hands, develops imaginative thinking and imagination, and develops the ability to distinguish and correctly name colors. Moreover, mosaic develops the child’s artistic taste, the ability of children to navigate the plane of the playing field, and allows them to show creative activity.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Option No. 1: Print large pictures of coloring pages, cut out along the outline, place the template on a mosaic board (secure with tape for convenience).
Option No. 2: Print large color pictures of coloring books, glue them on wooden planks, drill holes along the diameter of the mosaic.
It is difficult for young children to create mosaic images on their own, but they do an excellent job of working from a template.
Didactic manual “Magic clothespins”
In order to firmly, easily and firmly hold a pencil (ballpoint pen) in the hand, the child must have developed 3 fingers of the right (left) hand. The clothespin promotes the formation and then the development of the movement of squeezing and unclenching the fingertips of the right and left hands. To make the game interesting for a child, you can attach clothespins according to the theme (rays to the sun, needles to a hedgehog, petals to a flower, ears to a bunny’s head)
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Print out large color plot pictures, cut them out without any elements, and glue them onto the linoleum. On the back side, paste the text with the task in poetic form.
When children learn to put on and take off clothespins, you can offer them games and tasks.
“Make branches for the tree”
Using clothespins of the same color
Goal: to teach children to select the right clothespins of the same color, to develop fine motor skills and tactile sensations.
“Make thorns for the hedgehog”
Alternating clothespins by color
Goal: learn to alternate clothespins of two colors; develop fine motor skills of the hands.
"Make some rays for the sun"
Expression of creativity
Goal: to learn to use the color scheme of clothespins of your choice, to develop creativity and fine motor skills.
Didactic manual “Autumn Leaves” and “Mushroom Picking”
Goal: distinguish colors and understand color names, learn to select objects of the same color, but different sizes. Establish identities and differences in color of homogeneous objects. Learn to understand the words “such”, “not such”, “different”.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
We cut out leaves, mushrooms, and baskets from linoleum and paste them with the appropriate colors. Leaves of different shapes and sizes. This manual can be used in music and physical education classes.
Didactic manual “Dress the doll”
Goal: To consolidate the ability of visual and tactile examination of objects and materials and the ability to analyze their properties and qualities;
Exercise and activate visual functions and fine motor skills;
Teach children to name an object and its color; speech development and exercise in the use of different grammatical forms;
Cultivate a caring attitude towards things, provide mutual assistance to each other when dressing.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Knit clothing pieces of the same color.
Our boys and girls take great pleasure in dressing up dolls.
Didactic manual “Lay out on plates”
Goal: To teach children to distinguish colors and use the names of colors in speech. Strengthen the ability to recognize geometric shapes and name them (circle, square, triangle). Learn to understand the words “such”, “not such”, “different”. Develop fine motor skills of the hands.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Disposable plates in 4 main colors. We cut out geometric shapes from linoleum and paste them with the appropriate colors.
Didactic manual “Roll the ball through the gate”
Goal: To teach children to match objects by color; introduce the concept of “round”; form an idea of the size of objects; consolidate the ability to perform practical and playful actions with objects in accordance with their properties (shape).
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Wooden collars and balls in 4 main colors.
Didactic manual “Reels”
Goal: to introduce children to threads; tell about their purpose; teach how to wind thread on a template; develop fine motor skills and the ability to perform actions with both hands at the same time.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
Cut out a spool template from plexiglass, wind threads of different colors.
Didactic manual “Bus”
Objectives: to learn to distinguish between round and square objects;
navigate on a plane; learn to combine shapes with an object, perform correlative actions (color guide); develop fine motor skills of the fingers;
teach understanding of words and phrases: “bus”, “the bus has wheels, windows”; replenish the child’s vocabulary with the words: “car”, “driving”, “standing”.
Description of the preparation of the manual:
We cut out bus stencils from plastic, without windows and wheels. We make the wheels and windows in the appropriate shape (circle, square). We cover the manuals with self-adhesive film in the appropriate colors.
