How children learn to socialize with each other, starting at a very young age, translated…
Our daughter, Jen-Jen is three this year, in order to help her find her interests, we’d assigned a parent-child music movement course for her, in the name of accompanying our young to learn, actually, the parents are, shier than the kids; at first, everybody focuses her/his attention on her/his own child, but slowly, we’d gotten, attracted to the childish words, the actions of others’ children too.
Because the children are still quite young, their level of concentration, self-control, aren’t like the adults’, and would often get distracted by what was happening all around, or just started playing on their own, holding hands with the other kids in the class, or, communicate using their inarticulate and made up Mandarin to communicate with other children.
Although this may affect how the classes are going, but I’d felt, that their behaviors were, so very cute. At the start of the classes, a young girl, Tong-Tong would always come to hold Jen-Jen’s hand, they’d done everything together, bring out the instruments, playing on the drums, and as the classes are finished, they’d, wanted to walk out together too, but, her grandfather felt awful, that she got distracted, and told her to concentrate, but Tong-Tong said matter-of-factly, that “because Jen-Jen is very cute, I want her to be my friend.” The instructor had told me privately, that there were, rarely any children, with the company of their parents, who are willing to, make friends with other kids they’d just met. In the protective covers of the adults, the children had the hard-to-come-by chance to take this very step out, we were very lucky, to have met Tong-Tong, she’d taken Jen-Jen, shown her the way of socialization, how to interact between friends, helped her to adapt to her life in a group of younger children.
in a class like this…photo from online…
As the classes were nearing end, the teacher would play a song, and it’d gotten the children’s attention, and, they’d found their places, and started dancing around—that was my favorite moment, watching a group of children, waving around their short and chubby arms, sang with their cute voices, to put that perfect cadence, to the short music-rhythm class.
Being a working mom, I’d not gotten enough time to spend with my daughter, subtracting the time of eating and sleeping, there may only be about only three, to four hours that I’m with my daughter, but, in this short time, I’d still hope to be there to watch my daughter grow, helping them make that happy mark of memories, that we’d experienced together, to add more of those priceless treasures in the treasure chests for them.
young children making friends, photo from online…
This showed, how even as young as these children are, two, three, four, they’d needed to feel accepted in a group, to make friends, because we are social animals, and, parents should ENCOURAGE children to venture farther away from the protective umbrella of the parents’, so they can experience things on their own.