Some skills that children first starting school need to learn are how to get along with other children. They need to be taught how to share, take turns and how to make friend. Children when they start preschool or kindergarten often learn these skills or if they had siblings, they learn by interacting with them. Some children are not taught these skills at home or due to having siblings that never shared with them they do not know how. Children all come into the world with different temperaments as well and some children are more aggressive than others. They don’t know how to wait their turn, share or how to even make a friend. We are doing children a great disservice if we have them enter school without understanding the social rules or allowing them to have selfish behaviors that affect other children.
I have worked with children both at preschool and elementary school levels and have seen children as young as preschool bully other children. I often wonder to myself where are these children learning this behavior from. I have seen children as old as elementary school not know how to take turns or share. Eventually other children do not want to play with children that don’t have the social skills necessary to get along with others. Parents who don’t teach these skills are actually setting their children up for failure in relationships.
A teacher is often too busy with curriculum to have to constantly deal with children that are missing social skills or have constant behavior problems. Learning these skills starts at home, and the parents are a child’s first teacher. If children do not learn these skills at home, they have to learn them in school either through other children or through the teacher. Why not give your child the skills that are necessary to be successful in life.
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