Parenting Tips for Your 47-48 Month Old Child
How is your child progressing in being ready for preschool? Can your child:
- Be away from you during the day without being upset?
- Pay attention to a short story when it is read and answer questions about it?
- Create things with paper, colors, scissors, markers and glue? It is not important to stay in the lines!
- Put on a hat, coat, and shoes or boots?
- Repeat simple messages?
- Remember instructions and carry out two or three tasks after being told once?
- Put a simple puzzle together?
- Draw a picture of a person which includes the head, body, arms and legs?
- Draw or copy shapes?
- Visit comfortably with people outside the family?
- Tell his phone number, address, and birthday?
- Identify several colors?
- Try to write or copy letters and numbers?
- Admit he doesn’t know or needs help?
Children are always changing in knowledge, skills, experiences and understanding. Readiness for preschool is not something they do or do not have. It is a process of growth and change. Readiness addresses a child’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development at a particular time. A child’s level of readiness in August will be very different from what it is in December. It is OK for children to be at different readiness levels.
Learn more about Your Child: 47-48 Months from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.
