I have not been a classroom teacher specifically, but I have had to teach many of the children in the family, especially my daughter. She is currently 9 years old, playing my role as a single mother until she was 6 years old.
First I had to learn a diversity of subjects, from when was it recommended that I start eating? What topics could I talk to and what was the age I could begin to understand?
Feeding:
Due to gastrointestinal problems that I have had since I was little, I had to learn about the benefits of several foods and in this way improve the processing of their food.
From a very young age, I taught her the benefits of fruits and we made a calendar together with the food she had to eat per week.
In order not to accelerate his metabolism he could not eat many times a day, this was a bit difficult but really creating a nutritional habit helped in his healthy development.
Plastic arts:
I love crafts, and nothing better than to experiment with painting your clothes regardless of the disaster you can do with your children.
All children are born with an art and we must motivate them and not repress them. I have witnessed teachers who seek perfection in plastic arts activities, I believe that if it is perfect it is not art and it loses its essence.
Values:
How I would love for these lessons to become increasingly important within homes and classrooms.
There are various activities that we can develop to exalt the values: respect, humility, honesty, are key in the life of every human being.
Giving up a place in transport, greeting when arriving and leaving, speaking with respect, knowing how to express oneself, are values that we have the responsibility to inculcate from very young.
The lesson that I do not like very much to teach but it is indispensable:
Sexuality:
This is really difficult to talk with the children, we must be very clear about what topics we can talk to and what are the recommended responses we should give according to their age.
It is important the issue of sexuality in children, learn to respect their body and know the changes they will experience.
The youngest daughter of 4 years of a friend, spent the day crying because she wanted to have a stick like her older brother. I laughed a lot at her witticisms, but I recommended her to seek help to know that she could respond to this daily request of her daughter, somehow I had to reassure her.
I hope you enjoyed my story a little, I know that many who do not work as classroom teachers identify a bit with my experience.
