Kindergarten Education Sets Your Child's View of His or Her Self

In the US, kindergarten education phase is usually somewhere between age 4 and age 6. It lasts for one year, usually.

Even if your child has been attending preschool, the beginning of kindergarten education stage is a major change in his or her life - and in your life. Even with the very best kindergarten teachers, there is a great deal more structure in your child's life and he or she has to be at school on time!

Is this the first time your child has been away from home during the day? Then, kindergarten is the first time that someone outside your family will have a great deal of influence over him or her.

As with any other profession, the teaching profession is filled with excellent teachers, poor teachers, and many in-between. Even if you have an excellent teacher, likely there are many children in the classroom, certainly giving your child less time with the teacher than he or she had with you during the day. In some cases, that is good!

Kindergarten Education Stage is...

...the time when your child first gets feedback on his or her personal skills and attributes outside your family.

Some very sensitive children may interpret well meaning encouragement as anything but good. Unless the feedback your child gets is extremely destructive, you are going to have to offset any negatives yourself without being able to change a teacher who is a bad role model . If you are unusually fortunate, the teacher your child gets will be better than you in supporting your child.

Be very quick to support your child in what he or she does. If he or she is struggling with some aspect of kindergarten education, listen well to what your child is saying. Refrain from saying "that isn't true", when you child complains about something or about his or her own skills with something.

Listen. Then ask questions to help your child figure out things for him or herself. Such questions like "why", "how", "when", are very helpful.

For instance, if your son says the teacher doesn't like him, you might ask why he feels that way. Ask enough questions to get the full explanation. Then you might ask your child what he thinks he might do to encourage the teacher to think differently about him.

Always let your child know that no matter what other people may think about anything your child does, you love him just the way he is. If he made an error, it was just a learning experience and completely normal.

Kindergarten Education May Be Stressful

Sometimes, your child is not motivated to do his/her homework and graduate from kindergarten the way we are motivated for him or her. After all, this child has only five or six years of life experience. Again, do all you can to reduce the stress, to focus on mastering the skills rather than instilling fear that he or she will not measure up to the others.

Do your part not to be uptight that his or her whole life is on the skids if he or she goes to kindergarten two years in a row. Everything happens for a reason. If you and your child do your best to help him or her learn without high stress, yet the skills are not mastered in time, then accept the fact that this just might be the best thing for your child - certainly better now than in 5th grade!

Kindergarten Education is Fun!

Do what you can to make it fun to learn. Find games which teach the concepts your child needs and play them with your child. It is proven that people learn much better when they enjoy the learning rather than when it is a chore.

You certainly want your child to enjoy learning... Kindergarten education sets the stage for his or her outlook towards the rest of his education experience. Everyone learns at a different rate. That of your child might be faster or slower than the rest of the group. Embrace that difference.

The bottom line is your child's view of him or her self, and it starts during kindergarten.

If your child is pleased with who he or she is, then he or she will be much more anxious to learn and to try new things. Keep the subject of school a positive one and especially the subject of where your child stands in the school environment.

Children don’t have to be academically brilliant to become rich. Your child just needs to feel good about him or her self and therefore, willing to experiment.

For example, look at Mike Ferry, one of the wealthiest men in real estate... sometimes he admits having an IQ well below average! But he believed realtors needed help developing sales skills and started The Mike Ferry Organization, a seminar and training company for the real estate industry. Today, he earns more than $10 million a year from seminar and product sales.

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