Supermarkets can also be used to educate children?

I don’t know if it’s because of the influence of my prodigal mother-in-law or something else, but my Dingdang, a pure man, has been full of infinite enthusiasm for going to supermarkets and shopping malls since he was a child. No matter it rains or shines, a visit to the supermarket after meals is his daily routine, as if the mall downstairs will close down if he doesn\’t go and inspect it. I used to be a bit conflicted, thinking that it would be better to go to a commercial place like a supermarket than to go to a park with an outdoor, natural atmosphere. But some time ago, I re-read the supermarket parenting chapter of \”Parenting and Parenting While Doing Housework\” in \”A+ Parenting Method for 0-6 Years Old\” written by child psychologist Chen Lu, and was inspired by articles on the Internet that mentioned \”Supermarket Early Childhood Education\”, and I discovered that I What a worry. These days, I took Ding Dong to explore the supermarket and found that the supermarket is really a \”good classroom\”! I summarized a few points to see how many opportunities we missed for our children to grow when we went to the supermarket~~ 1. When the opportunity to cultivate children’s inner drive is not yet gone, what should I get in the supermarket? , if it is something that is not dangerous (glass is fragile, etc.) and he can just reach it, I will start to try to push the car and let him help me pick it up. If he is timid, I will guide him with encouragement. I said, \”Yes, it\’s the red, round one with a little man on the package.\” This also strengthened his ability to recognize colors and shapes, as well as the development of hand-eye coordination, grasping ability, and observation ability. More importantly, every time he successfully helped us get something, we would praise him: \”Baby is so capable! He can buy things by himself!\” This made him realize that although he is very small, he is already a capable person. A person who can accomplish something independently without relying on his parents. Now that he can leave, he has more opportunities to help me get things. He is also very active in helping me get things at home. He has a sense of accomplishment and internal drive to help my parents share the work early on. 2. Opportunities to cultivate children\’s brain power. Dan\’s mother was studying books on children\’s brain development and found that the key to determining the speed of a child\’s future brain power lies in the number of brain synapses in the child. The best way to increase brain synapses is to let children read more. Listen more and be exposed to different things. Well, the supermarket is just such a place that we often go to, where it is free, and where children can come into contact with all kinds of different things at once: without damaging the products and ensuring safety, let the children touch soft tomatoes and take a look. Moving fish and shrimps (my Dingdang often lies down in the aquatic area and treats it as a bird and flower market), smells the smelly salted fish, and even chooses a different road when going home… These will all affect the child\’s brain. Get fresh sensory stimulation, stimulate brain development, and generate new brain synapses. Even the text on product packaging bags, the big numbers on promotional posters, and letting children take \”two\” of two apples can be the best opportunities for children to learn simple words and numbers. 3. An opportunity to cultivate children’s self-control and decision-making skills. Little Dingdang is now a regular customer in the supermarket. The troublesome problem every time he goes to the supermarket is that he can’t move his feet when he passes by the candy section. Want to, even cry and act violently. Whenever I can\’t help but want to get angry, I remind myself of a sentence in the parenting book: When a child makes a mistake, it is when the child matures.long opportunity. I made an agreement with him that every time I go to the supermarket, I can buy a small thing that I like (although he can’t speak a lot of words yet, he can already understand a lot of words), but when he wants more, I will start using positive words. \”Kind but firm\” learned in discipline: • Reject him gently: \”Mom loves you very much, but we can only buy one thing, this is what we agreed\”; • Guide him to choose – \”Then think about this Which of the two do you like better, you pick one.\” After a few times, he realized that it was useless to throw things around, and now the degree and frequency of crying have become less and less. Faced with the temptation of a cabinet full of candies, he slowly began to understand what rules and self-control are, and that \”there are so many good things in this world, but you can\’t get everything at once\” and learned restraint and choice. 4. Opportunities to cultivate children’s planning and goal-orientedness. For slightly older children, child psychologist Chen Lu said in the \”0-6 Years Old A+ Parenting Law\” because she often lets her daughter participate in shopping. For example, you and your daughter decide together what to cook at night, make a shopping list of ingredients together, and control the cost within the amount. If there is any leftover, you will buy something for your child, and you will not buy anything else randomly. Therefore, your child learns that shopping is an important thing from an early age. Something that is highly targeted and planned. Therefore, when her daughter was 4 years old, she was already quite sophisticated in shopping. What impressed her deeply was that I once took her to buy sunglasses. As soon as she entered the store, her daughter was not dazzled by the beautiful clothes at the door. Instead, she went straight to the glasses and picked out a red one from dozens of kinds. , I decided to buy it after trying it and finding it suitable. After buying it, she found that she still had some money left than expected, so she went to pick out a dress and said, \”I like this.\” She saw that the dress was on sale, and she had about the same amount of money left over from the glasses she had just bought. In the end, my daughter wore the dress she chose for two or three years, and it was almost white in the wash. Dan’s mother believes that this decisive, capable and planned shopping habit must be cultivated through practice since childhood, and this habit of doing things with plans and goals will benefit the children throughout their lives. 5. Opportunity to cultivate children’s healthy consumption habits. My sister-in-law is a very health-conscious person. She will carefully read the production date and ingredient description every time she buys something. I remember that when my nephew was out with us when he was very young, he noticed that his mother was always staring at the packaging. I asked her to explain to the child what she was looking at. Who would have thought that it was such a coincidence. My two nephews are only in elementary school now, and they already know better than me which ingredients in food formulas are bad to eat, and which fish contain more heavy metals… My sister-in-law rarely forces the two of them to do anything. The son can only eat healthy food, but when the child listens to his mother\’s talk about how she chooses ingredients, he naturally understands how to choose healthier things. When buying things, he will not blindly pursue expensive or brand names, and form a good consumption pattern. Habit. 6. Opportunities to cultivate respect and education in children. There are all kinds of staff in shopping malls and supermarkets. Although Dingdang is still young, he has vaguely understood from picture books and my usual explanations that the aunt collects money and is called cashier. That uncle is called a security guard and he catches thieves. What do I teach these people to Dingdang?Not only do we hope that he will match the names of occupations with real people, but we also hope that by guiding him to observe how hard his brothers and sisters work, we must respect their labor when we go to the supermarket:• I usually remind him how hard it is for the saleswoman who arranges the shelves. The products we throw away will not automatically return to their places, and the sister has to help us put them back; • Tell him that the reason why the mall is always so clean is because There is a cleaner who bends over and cleans back and forth every day. The cleaner has to pick up the garbage we throw away. I will not force Dingdang to do anything. I will only tell him in this way that the so-called education is not to cause trouble to others. When we do our own things well, it is already a way of helping others. At the first few times, he seemed to understand, but after talking a few more times, Dingdang seemed to start to understand. A few days ago, he picked up the garbage and couldn\’t find a place to throw it away. I asked him to hand it to the cleaner. , he even said \”thank you\” to the aunt. Mr. Liu and I are so happy~