Take Advantage of Your Child's Energy Levels

Take Advantage of Your Child's Energy Levels
by: Joseph Browns

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in
playing those you hold well."
-Josh Billings

If parents want to be able to make best use of time with
their children, then it is crucial for a parent to start
becoming alert to the state that their children are in.
Tired? Satisfied? Bored? His shoe hurts him? She has a
stomachache from the spaghetti? And so on....This applies
particularly during the time that children are playing with
toys. They want to be happy. And you want them to be happy
too..

Here's one way of looking at it: it's a bit
like dealing with a baby. Your baby cries. So you figure,
usually and probably it's one of four things. One,
the baby is hungry. Two, the baby needs a diaper
change.Three, the baby is tired. Or four, the baby wants to
be held. You would probably test each of these out to see
if the baby will stop crying. What's happening here
is a continual process of trying to figure out and be
sensitive to the the baby's needs. Right? So we are
dealing with a sensitivity to the child, and a willingness
to experiment to find out exactly what the baby needs. Once
the thing is done (for example, changed a dirty diaper and
put on a clean one) and the baby stops crying, and is now
smiling and gurgling, you think: "Bingo! I did the
right thing there!".

So the checklist is a key to a parent's success,
because it provides the parent with the various
possibilities of dealing with a baby's (or
child's) needs.

As babies turn into toddlers who turn into pre-schoolers who
turn into kids (and so on), their needs naturally get more
sophisticated. In order to keep up with their kids, parents
need to increase their checklist. Not only that, but to
change the checklist as the kids grow, as some needs get
taken off the list and others get put on. So it helps to
start off with this idea of a checklist for each of your
children. It can be simply a mental checklist. For those who
are more organized, they can write it down.

An example of a checklist for a 6 year old can be:

1. Parents
2. Food
3. Friends
4. Clothes
5. Sleep/Fatigue
6. Homework
7. Entertainment
8. Siblings & Family (relationships)

For each of these items you can ask yourself- is my child
happy and fulfilled in these areas? What areas does the
child need help in? It would be difficult for them to be
having fun playing if they have problems elsewhere.

In dealing with each of these items, here's an
example of dealing with a checklist item: Energy
Levels/Fatigue: Let's take a closer look at this.
Children naturally have routines during the day. Wake-up,
get dressed, breakfast, school, after-school activities,
suppertime, homework, evening snack, bedtime. Yet you cannot
expect children to have the same energy level in the
afternoon after a long day of school/play as they would have
in the morning when they are fresh from a full night of
sleep. Many experienced parents know that when children are
tired, especially little children, they just do not
function as well in being able to do activities, in
listening to their parents, or even at times to behave
normally (!!). So this is a good item for the checklist: How
tired is your child?

"I still find each day too short for all the
thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all
the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to
see."
John Burroughs

For parents, the same can apply for the time spent with
their children! Parents who want to get the most out of
being able to build relationships with their children should
consider (as difficult as it is) to schedule their day
around the times that children have high energy levels.

An example of a good time to be with the children is after
supper. Often children are well-fed, and the time spent
sitting at the dinner table allows them to recharge their
batteries. They are refreshed and well-fed and ready for
some evening activity.

The time that is well-spent with children is like depositing
a lot of value into a bank account of love and trust with
your child. And what could be more valuable than that?

"Life is half spent before we know what it
is."
George Herbert

About The Author

Joseph Browns, creator of http://home-educational-toys.com,
is a caring parent who wants to share his experiences and
expertise in how parents can take advantage of valuable
opportunities to spend quality time with children and aquire
those priceless memories of love and bonding. Many issues
are dealt with in the website
http://home-educational-toys.com, some of which are:
educational toys (primary topic), parent-child
relationships, environmental (interior) design, health,
communication skills, furniture, and child education.

brownsdesign2@rogers.com


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