School Preparation Begins At Home
By Beatrice M. Gudridge of the
National Education Association,
author of pamphlets for parents.
TAKE ONE SMALL well
scrubbed relative about three feet
high, sprinkle generously with par
ent-type understanding, fold in
books, a teacher, a school, and let
simmer for the next 12 years—stir
ring often.
That’s the recipe for parents of
the pigtail-and-popsicle set, off to
school this fall for the first time—
all four million of them.
If you’re like most parents,
you’ve been helping your child get
ready for this day from the mo
ment he uttered his first recog
nizable word.
You helped when you waited pa
tiently for inexpert but eager little
fingers to button a snowsuit, you
helped when you let the dishes go
to read him his bedtime story. All
the books you read aloud, the
lumps of molded clay you admired,
the time you took to play catch,
the ideas you listened to, the ques
tions you answered, the regular
patterns for meals, sleep, and play
on which you insisted—these were
the soundest kind of preparation
for school.
For wonderful and exciting as
school is, there are things it can
not do for your child.
School can not, for example,
make him WANT to read if he has
never sensed or seen at home that
there is beauty and adventure and
learning to be found in books.
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Nor can school turn him into a
cheerful, cooperative, courteous
young citizen if he has never ex
perienced at home or in the neigh
borhood the good feeling of shar
ing—toys, a book, a game, an out
ing, a thought.
And school can’t do much either
about making him want to finish a
job, make a friend, assume a re
sponsibility, explore an idea if the
very important people in his life
up to now — his parents — have
never indicated they felt these
things were important.
If you have done your job well in
the first five years of your child’s
life, his school and his teachers will
have something on which to build.
But there are specifics now
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where you can help ready him for
school routines.
You can encourage him to put
away his own toys at pickup time,
to listen when others speak, to fol
low directions, to take over simple
household tasks.
You can establish the kind of
going-to-bed, getting-up, resting,
playing routine at home that he
can continue when school begins.
School is a place where he will
begin growing up. At home, is he
learning to turn lights on and off,
to wash himself, to tie his own
shoestrings, to carry water without
spilling, to climb and coast and
slide and swing?
Has he had the fun at home of
drawing with crayons on a big
sheet of paper, molding clay, paint
ing with a big brush and bold col
ors, pounding with a mallet, listen
ing to music that told him to hop,
run, or sing to its rhythms?
School, he will find, is also a
place to talk. At home, are you
speaking carefully and clearly so
that he will hear words correctly
pronounced? Giving him experi
ences to talk about—a trip to the
zoo, the lake, the movies, the mu
seum, the library?
Answer “Whys” Honestly
Are you promptly and honestly
answering his questions, even the
seemingly-idle or outright imper
tinent ones (what makes you so
fat? where did your hair go?)
When his eager curiosity leads you
into murky waters, do you say,
“Let’s look that up” in the diction
ary, globe, map, magazine, book?
Perhaps the biggest adventure
he will ever have in school is learn
ing to read. To give him a running
start, you will want to read him
many stories, begin him on his own
“library,” show him how much you
yourself enjoy reading. Lead him
to books about things that really
interest him and that he can under
stand—stories about trains, planes,
tugboats, or about other children.
When he starts to read, take time
to listen.
Above all, don’t pressure him to
read if he isn’t learning quite as
fast as you think he should. Recog
nize that your child, like every
other child, has his own personal
private timetable for growing and
doing.
When he goes off to school, he’ll
be glad that there’s somebody back
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