How to prepare your toddler for the holidays?

If you want your child to really understand and remember Christmas and New year, you need to prepare for the festival was not less than 2-3 weeks. After all, the younger the child, the slower held his nerve impulses, and hence the skills are not formed quickly. To learn that the holiday is coming soon, the child will take time. And games and activities in preparation for the New year and Christmas, will help the emergence of expectations of the holiday.

Adult members of the family would be nice to discuss who is like a "proper" holidays — before unpleasant situation arises the mismatch of expectations. It happens quite often when processing the entire year dad wants to just lie on the couch and sat up-at-home mom will be upset over the fact that her husband does not support her ambitious agenda. Agree on what everyone is waiting for — make a list of priorities. Many families use the holidays and to finally to see family and friends.



A lot depends on the size of your home, but in General: the more people you take along, the more unpredictable can be the child's behavior. You should think twice before going with a child on a massive tree. For active and hardy kids it can be a pleasant event, but the child is sensitive and shy is more likely to get a negative experience in a noisy crowd of strangers. From large trees is more likely to have fun children older than 5 years that are already quite socialized.



Definitely not suitable for a 2-3 yrs holidays where children are present separately from their parents. Also, if the tree is not part of the classes that you attend, do not wait that the kid will actively participate in the program. Many children need considerable time to look around. Often after the holidays, which were actively, you need to come around for another week or two. Try not to plan for the last days of the holiday season with lots of things. Otherwise the contrast will be too sharp, and the child is difficult to adapt to the ordinary rhythms of life, to start going to kindergarten, for example.



After a long holiday most of the children were getadapterlist, lost good habits and possibly hit mode. All this will recover only by the end of January, provided that you do not eat a peck of chocolates and visited all the trees in and around the city.

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