I'm helping!

The kid wants to help with the housework, and my mother answered: "Do not disturb! Go play ". Is it not better to teach a child to be fit?

Our Mistakes How often do you hear from the grandparents angry comments that the boy (or girl) has not grown, but her parents have let him alone fill the bed or wash in a bowl.
How often we ourselves do not allow your child to perform a simple operation, even in spite of his ardent desire to help parents. Sometimes it comes to scandal. It is clear that mom is easier and faster to do everything itself, but what do we want from a grown-up child, when, instead of joy from helping him in the shower is just bitter resentment, because he wanted to do something better ... Unanswered Questions
Yet progress is not in place, enticing the young and impatient parents all sorts of plastic toys wonder: plates with light to sound cooking food, washing machines, ironing boards, irons with rosettes, scales, food, similar to most real ... Themselves in such a play is interesting. And everything is good, but where is the knowledge of the world, which is not given much time?
All this bright synthetic world is good and even very much, but for those places where to keep track of young experimenters simply do not have physical features: a kindergarten, a playroom, a boarding school in the yard. But at home, such toys are generally able to carry away the baby for a short time. In addition, they provide no practical skills and, frankly, anything they do not teach.
After all, if you look, toy sizzling sausages can not warm up or undercooked. Then how do you know how to cook them?
Underwear can not be spoiled by superheated toy iron. While guess what a mark corresponds to the desired type of fabric?
Screwdriver to tighten the plastic is not a single screw and a plastic chainsaw can be sawed except that sand construction. While this makes the Pope?
May give the child an opportunity to explore the world through the game? With us - adults. Proven Methods
If thoughtful for a moment, then all that is actively trying to impose modern industry of children's goods, there is at home. Have only slightly adapted items for your child and give him a little time and attention. Will not notice how clumsy kid from "hatch" a good helper around the house that can greatly simplify your everyday chores. Action plan

    * Do not buy a toy vacuum cleaner. Yes, he is "almost like a real (but not cheap). But the house has a modern plant, is so easy and convenient to use as the child cope with it without problems.
    * We can do without a toy sink. Of course, a little damp in the kitchen, and a lot of foam in this shell - it is the inalienable satellites beginning mistresses. Yes, only an extra bottle of dishwashing detergent still is much cheaper toy kitchenette.
    * Going real iron. Hard to believe that someone is out of this appliance. Of course, we should not start training with his mother's ironing guipure blouses or better Dad's pants, but that's handkerchiefs and scarf should be fine for a first acquaintance with the iron.
    * Wash well to wash! Needless to say about that blissful feeling experienced by the child when something worthwhile make myself? What could be simpler than the stuff the laundry in the machine-gun and press the appropriate button, and then for a long time to observe how cool your dresses and shirts of a transparent drum. Do not deprive your baby of fun!
    * Master the real thing. Repairs in the apartment or on a summer long wait can not, and so once we decided that it's time to wallpaper paste, and the floors perestilat, the screwdriver, screws, brushes and glue can be useful aides in the hands of small masters.
    * Learn to cook. Perhaps the most difficult task. But even here there are unpretentious moments from which we can begin at any age. Peel the boiled eggs, rub the carrots, stir the mayonnaise in the salad, spoon into a frying pan shmyaknut test for pancakes ... And then more and more interesting.
Result

    * Over time, you suddenly realize that not very long ago ironed clothes themselves and no longer "stand on the soul" of the child, pointing out what temperature should be set.
    * With cleaning handle two times faster than before.
    * Colors are not watered for a hundred years, but they do bloom.
    * Funds for washing dishes now missing for a long time.
    * Forget to buy something at the store is impossible. Small proprietors, if anything, remind: porridge cooked in milk, and stew need oil.
According to psychologists
Of course, to teach a child host, you need to sacrifice free time, which is never enough. Need to have patience with which, after hectic working day, too, the problem. But the result did not take long, pleasantly surprised and saved for years to come.
And no longer will have to shake his head dejectedly, and inquire of the grown child: "With whom are you incompetent?", Or "Why do you never use?!". Needless will be a difficult and thankless way - first, to wean, and then again to teach a son or daughter to help her parents. After all, since childhood for a child in the household chores were interesting and enjoyable game, which later evolved into not less than pleasant experience - to help parents.