If you don't make some rules and regulations for your child, he will also bring you other surprises.
After all, for children, the world is like a freshly baked steamed stuffed bun, and they want to taste everything.
In their little heads, there has never been such a frame as "this must be like this" and "that can't be done well".
Maybe sometimes they make us angry, but from another perspective, aren't our precious childlike innocence obliterated by life?
▎: Should she be stopped from "playing with water"
"Baby, mom went to the balcony to wash clothes."
She ignored me with a water bottle. She just threw a drop of water from the straw and poured it into a small bowl.
I put the clothes into the washing machine and started washing. When I returned to my room, I found her lying quietly on the ground, with a few tissues scattered around her.
There is a saying that a child has no voice and must be a demon. So I stood there quietly, watching what she was doing, mom.
It turned out that she sucked the water into her mouth, then poured it into the bowl, then poured it on the paper towel, and then watched the water spread on the paper towel with satisfaction.
After a few times, probably because it was too much trouble, she simply put the bowl aside, directly spilled the water sucked into her mouth on the paper towel, and then carefully watched the water spread.
"Baby, what are you playing?"
As soon as she saw me approaching, she was afraid that I would stop her "game" and waved excitedly and said, Mom, go to the balcony to wash clothes.
I put a sweat towel on her chest like eating western food, took a bag of paper and put it at her feet, then walked away.
She is exploring the relationship between paper towels and water! How valuable this is. What does it matter if clothes are wet on the floor?
Want to know about soap? Touch it
There is a bar of soap by the laundry pool.
One day, when Guagua was washing her hands, she asked, "What is this?" ?
I said, this is soap.
What is soap?
Soap is used to wash clothes. After a pause, I took it to her, let her get wet, and then touched it.
Is it slippery?
"Yes!" She fell in love with it immediately and played for a long time.
In the next few days, she will point to soap from time to time and say, soap!
Of course I know what she means. She wants to play.
When the weather is fine, I put a little water in the basin and soap in it, and then let her feel the slippery feeling brought by soap in the sun.
Basically, every time she "accidentally" gets the water out and gets her clothes and pants wet. I won't talk about her. When she has had enough fun, change her clothes.
You don't have to pinch any colored mud.
When we get colored mud, the things we usually pinch are snakes, loaches and balls. They will also combine colored mud and sticks to make "popsicles".
One day, Guagua accidentally squeezed a little colored mud from the "popsicle" and stuck it on the cardboard. Since then, it has been out of control, covering the whole cardboard a little bit.
When a piece of cardboard is full, take another one, and when a box of colored mud is used up, take another box.
I don't stop her either, but when she is covered by a piece of paper, she will exclaim: Wow! Like a colorful starry sky! How beautiful!
No one stipulates that things must be pinched with colored mud, as long as she has a good time.
The longest time, she persisted for an hour and a half. Who says children have no concentration? When doing what she is interested in, they can concentrate more than we adults.
▎ "I drew a slide for them"
I bought a baby coloring book for Guagua.
I said, honey, look, the apple above is red, right? Let's color the apples below red, too. ...
After she simply drew two strokes of red, her attention was attracted by the wavy lines at the bottom of the page. Then, she drew a slightly inclined line at the bottom of each page.
At the end of the painting, she told me happily that it was a slide, with apples playing on the slide, turtles playing on the slide and monkeys playing on the slide. ...
She likes to play with slides, so she draws a slide for animals or plants on each page so that they can all have fun.
At that moment, I was moved to tears.
How glad I am that I didn't rudely stop her from "drawing lines" and drag her back to learn painting. Otherwise, how can her good wish of "playing the slide together" be realized?
▎ Draw a colorful car.
I went to an early education class a few days ago, and one of the links was to let the baby color a wooden car.
Babies are very excited to get "colorful paint trays" and brushes, and Quack is no exception.
She touched the nearest orange with her brush and wiped it. She painted orange and green at the same time, and painted transparent windows. ...
In short, it's a long story.
But she "painted" a car intently, painting a car with different colors and different thicknesses of paint.
I resisted the impulse of "directing" and thought: This is her work, let her play it.
Other children are not so "lucky", and my ears are full of voices:
Oh, you can't draw like this. Come on, mom will help you draw. Look, you have to spread it evenly. Next, mother tried her best to paint the car beautifully. But her children are not happy at all.
Oh, I told you not to get it on your clothes. Why did you get it on your clothes? Then there were a few clicks. Next, her children should always be careful not to get paint on their clothes. How can they concentrate on "creation"?
Oh, the front of the car, the front of the car is the same color, red, red looks good; All the wheels are the same color, black, and the wheels are generally black ... The child draws silently under the "command" of his mother, completely losing the fun of "creation".
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After the activity, Guagua happily took her colorful car home.