On New Year’s Day, young children are used to going out, resting and watching TV as much as they want with their parents. Therefore, when the long holidays are over, many children get used to the old free lifestyle, feel sluggish and don’t want to go back to school, making parents extremely difficult.
“I don’t go to school!”
Although there were two weekends of psychological preparation in advance, this morning Thuy and her husband were still extremely struggling to bring their 4-year-old daughter to class. The long Tet days at home with grandparents are spoiled for eating and sleeping, making the child not like to go to class.
A few days ago, every day, we had to whisper to encourage “Miu go to class to show off where your friends are going! Shin’s friend must miss Miu very much!”. However, whenever she heard regarding going to class, she would cry loudly: “Miu is not going, auntie! Let’s play at home!” The baby’s hair was tied back to the baby and removed, determined not to go to school.
This morning, despite the crying and screaming, the siblings had to take turns forcing – someone to change clothes, someone to carry a backpack to the classroom door to “hand over” her. Going to class, it turned out that not only Miu, many other students were also crying and demanding to go home, making them tired.
Not only preschool and kindergarten children, many children of primary school age also share the same syndrome of wanting to stay home following Tet. Mr. Tuan, the father of a 5th grader and a 3rd grader, struggled equally this morning to wake them up and drag them to school. “On New Year’s Day at home, they stay up late and sleep in, so they won’t wake up no matter how much they call this morning. Wrestling forever turns out to be late to school on the first day of the year,” he said.
For middle and high school children, the solution will be simpler for parents because the child is self-aware of having to return to the old rhythm of life. Particularly for young children, especially those who have just entered kindergarten and grade 1 above, bringing children back to their old habits of life, going to class regularly every morning is as hard as the first days of bringing children to class. . Children are used to staying up late playing or watching TV, sleeping in in the morning, refusing to go to class… Therefore, the psychology of not wanting to go to school following Tet in young children is understandable.
Catching up following Tet
Adults are still sluggish following Tet, let alone children who just love to have fun and don’t want to go to school, the farewell to great holidays to return to getting up early, studying, going to class, taking extra lessons. .. what a difficult problem for children. This year’s Tet holiday is much longer, making the holiday sound longer. Parents should take measures to intervene and encourage children to catch up once more soon. Here are a few “tricks” parents can apply:
- Make school fun: Before your child goes back to school, find ways to encourage them: “This Tet, it’s a waste of time if you go out a lot without showing off your friends! Not every friend can go to the Zoo and Botanical Garden like me!”. Tell your child that going to school will have the opportunity to meet friends, ask you how much lucky money you get and show off where you can go out… Young children love to show off their friends so this will be a factor in helping them. Children find inspiration for going to class.
- Call your child to wake up on time with fun games: Mothers can call their children with the game of crawling, joking to create fun for the baby in bed before he brushes his teeth and washes his face. With girls, mothers create excitement by “seducing” children to tie beautiful hair, wear beautiful dresses to show her and friends.
- The whole family works together: When the children go to school and the parents go back to work, let’s sit together with the children at the desk. Maybe for parents, it’s just a matter of checking email, reviewing work records, new year’s to-do lists … but sitting back at the desk helps you regain inspiration for the new days following Tet. Children who see their parents working are also somewhat aware that the past fun days have stopped and realize that they also need to “work” once more like their parents. Help your child review assignments, schedule for the beginning of the year, and set goals for learning in the new year.
- Schedule a return for the whole family: The whole family should have a meeting at the beginning of the year to schedule a specific timetable for each member and be serious regarding that plan – especially with the children. If the parents move, the child will gain momentum and from there learn how to behave in a non-serious manner. Make sure your child goes to bed and wakes up on time. On the first day the child needs to go to class, don’t continue to let the child stay at home because of the love of the child while the other students are already in class…
- Give rewards: When children make progress, give them big prizes at the end of the week to make them more excited and put in effort. “This week, you study hard, at the weekend, let’s go to the water park once more!”, such rewards will encourage children a lot to quickly catch up once more.