1. Doting and doting by family members.

In kindergarten, teachers pay attention to cultivating children to learn to do anything they can do, and develop the habit of doing everything within their capabilities from an early age. But at home, parents, especially grandparents, often dote on their children and rush to feed them because they think the child is too slow to eat or soils his clothes. Adults take care of all the children's lives, and children are raised to rely on adults for everything. bad habits.

2. Children have not mastered self-care methods and skills.

Because children are young, they often do not understand the procedures and methods when taking care of themselves. When encountering practical difficulties, parents do not teach their children, but do it for them, resulting in children who cannot take care of themselves.

3. Lack of necessary opportunities for repeated practice.

Children are very excited when they first learn to wear clothes, and are often encouraged and praised by their parents. However, after learning, the children lose interest and do not want to do it anymore, and the parents do it instead, causing the children to lose the opportunity to practice again and again.

So how to train children’s ability to take care of themselves and develop good working habits and independence from an early age?

1. According to the child’s physiological development characteristics, gradually put forward requirements, from easy to difficult , from simple to complex.

Children aged 2-3 can train various self-service skills, such as eating, washing hands, brushing teeth, including going to the toilet by themselves

2. Create necessary and self-care facilities for children to take care of themselves. Reasonable terms.

For example: it is best to have your own small bed and quilt; clothes should be placed in a low cupboard for easy access by children; the washbasin should be small and light, and the washcloth should be short and thin.

3. Teach children basic self-care methods and skills.

For example: teach children the order of wiping their faces: use a towel to wipe their eyes, face, nose, forehead, then wipe their ears, behind their ears, and finally their neck, etc.

4. Persevere and train repeatedly.

Children’s self-care ability is continuously consolidated in practice, thereby developing the habit of consciously loving labor. Adults should praise their children in a timely manner when they do well. At the same time, parents should set an example and set an example. The formation of children's self-care ability helps to cultivate children's sense of responsibility, self-confidence and ability to deal with problems on their own, and will also have a profound impact on children's future lives. But most of today's children are highly dependent and have poor self-care ability, so that they cannot adapt well to the new environment. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate children's self-care ability. We should regard the cultivation of this ability as one of the important contents of educational activities. Some experts pointed out that children’s abilities and habits are cultivated in the preschool period. As a kindergarten, whether we can seize this critical stage and educate children in a targeted manner based on their age characteristics and self-care status is the key to their self-care ability.

Self-care ability mainly includes putting on and taking off clothes, shoes and socks by yourself, tidying up clothes, eating independently, and washing your face by yourself. The famous educator Mr. Chen Heqin proposed that "children should be allowed to do anything they can do by themselves." The "Outline" also clearly states that it is necessary to cultivate children with basic self-care abilities. Now let me talk about the reasons for children’s poor self-care ability:

1. Family members dote on and take care of everything. In today's only-child families, because parents do all the housework, they only pay attention to the intellectual investment of the child and underestimate the cultivation of the child's self-care ability. In kindergarten, whatever the child can do, the teacher pays attention to training the child to learn to do it by himself. , develop children's habit of doing all kinds of things within their ability from an early age. But at home, parents, especially grandparents, often dote on their children, fearing that the child will not be able to eat enough or be too slow to feed him. Adults take care of all the children's lives, forming a bad habit of relying on adults for everything.

2. Children have not mastered self-care methods and skills. Because children are young, they often do not understand the procedures and methods when taking care of themselves. When encountering practical difficulties, parents do not teach the children, but do it for them, resulting in the children not being able to take care of themselves.

3. Lack of necessary opportunities for repeated practice. Children are very excited when they first learn to put on clothes and are often encouraged and praised by their parents. However, after learning, the children lose interest and do not want to do it anymore, and the parents do it instead, causing the children to lose the opportunity to practice again and again.

So how to train children’s self-care ability and develop good working habits and independence from an early age?

1. Enhance children’s self-care awareness

Parents unconditionally take over, causing children to form a misunderstanding: parents will help them do things they are unwilling to do (when they need to drink water, their parents will bring them water; when they need to get up, their parents will help them get dressed...) , we must use various forms to let children know that they have grown up, and they must not be afraid of hardship or tiredness, and "do their own things by themselves."