Parenting Tips for Your 37-38 Month Old Child
Including children in household chores gives them hands-on learning. They share the family workload and learn responsibility. Chores help children:
- develop eye-hand coordination
- organize sequences
- understand how parts make up the whole
- learn to solve problems
Children learn best from chores that they understand and keep them active. Everyday tasks can be a fun way to spend quality time with your child. These tasks are a better way to help your child prepare for school than workbook sheets on numbers, letters or words.
Children learn to be responsible in small steps.
- First, allow your child to help with a job like setting the table. Show him what to do and let him try to do it. Use patience to stand by, hands at your sides, while your child struggles with what seems a simple task. He will gain confidence and skills. He will learn that helping is fun.
- Next, your child will do a task with a little reminding and with you watching. In setting the table, he may forget the napkins or spoons and you will need to say, “Let’s check to see if we have everything we need.”
- Finally, your child will be able to do the job by himself without reminders.
Learn more about Your Child: 37-38 Months from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.
