Vacations are a great time! This is the time of freedom, the time of favorite holidays, the time of joy and games. This is true, but it will only be so if someone makes such holidays for you and your children. Otherwise, restless children will wander around the apartment all the days of the holidays, bored, pestering you and or playing computer games.
Of course, this can be prevented and entertained by children, for the benefit of advertising offers in bulk, there would be money: there are Christmas trees, and more Christmas trees, and cinema, and cinema again, for older children — winter holiday camps, exhibitions, museums, skiing and skating . Some parents may be attracted to the opportunity to float their children to hell under a completely plausible pretext, but did we really raise children in order to rejoice when they had more fun with the movie than with us? It seems that just entertainment for the whole vacation time is somehow wrong.
And what is right?
That’s right — to do things with the children together. There are two important words here: “joint” and “deeds”.
Let’s start with things. Somehow it gradually develops that the opportunity to do nothing is now considered a holiday. Accordingly, from holiday to holiday, from vacation to next vacation, children naturally learn that business is bad, and idleness is good. Do you want to give your children such beliefs? Probably not. Joy is not in idleness, but in good and cheerful deeds, and your task is to arrange and organize these affairs during the holidays.
Ahead of the New Year — which means we will decorate the Christmas tree, the most beautiful and brightest Christmas tree in the world!
On New Year’s Eve there will be a lot of gifts — which means you need to make room for them and deal with old toys. This is a big deal, even a huge one, especially since old toys, when they suddenly need to be thrown away, become so interesting, and you want to play with them again for the last time!
New Year is a holiday, and on a holiday you want your house to be especially clean and elegant. Therefore, we will all find something to do together: goodbye, dust and garbage, long live order and comfort!
On New Year’s Eve, it is customary to give gifts to those we love — which means that these gifts need to be made, glued and painted by ourselves. And if adults show how, for example, you can make real snowflakes, lanterns, garlands and Santa Claus himself from a sheet of paper, then it will be surprisingly interesting.
On New Year’s Eve, of course, there will be a delicious table, and mom will cook and serve it. But why only mom, if all this can be done together? Spreading butter and red caviar together on delicious sandwiches, putting plates together and laying napkins beautifully — there is a lot to do, and help is very much needed.
The most important thing is that all these things should be joint. So that you sit next to each other, so that you sort out toys together and draw or decorate a Christmas tree together, so that you are united by conversations, so that your children show you their successes and you rejoice with them.
What else is important for the holidays? Joint games! Games are a lot of fun, they make everyone happy, make friends and make them closer. Games are very useful, because there you need to think, invent, remember and not be distracted, and these are all the most important things for child development. And games are very serious, because they have rules, and the rules must be followed. When dad or mom says something in a strict voice, sometimes you want to argue with it and you can not do it, and if these are the rules in the game, then everyone must follow them. And even me. And then, through play, our children accept the need for rules, order, and discipline.
What else will we have during the holidays? Of course, a joint sport! Skiing through the forest, sledding and skiing down steep mountains, going to the skating rink and just throwing snowballs, or even building a real snow fortress — everything can be thought of, everything can be done if done together.
So let’s do it — together! And we will have the most wonderful, the most fun and the most correct holidays!