Why Day Care Is Essential For Childhood Friendships Some children can find making friends very difficult from a young age. This
only places even more importance on day care and helping to develop friendships
and social skills from a young age. If your child is not in day care, there are
several reasons why this could affect their early friendships. Little Steps
Day Care have a fantastic nursery for all young children. In addition to
the activities and educational learning we provide, we want to develop the
confidence of all children and help them build friendships from a young age.
Interacting With Children The first step in making friends, building confidence and
being comfortable around kids your age is by interacting with other children.
Although a lot of parents may already have play dates organised, day care is
one of the best possible methods to make sure children are regularly
interacting with new people, helping to build friendships with children they
get along with.
Interacting more often should build confidence and ease any
anxiety as a child, whilst also making them more comfortable at day care as
they are with their friends. Although there are other ways for children to
interact from young, day care makes sure all children are involved and no one
is ever left out in any activities. This makes it the ideal option for building
friendships and helping your child settle.
Preparation For Primary School Primary school can be a daunting prospect for children,
having to leave their parents and go into their first taste of education.
However, these worries can be eased significantly if you are going to school
with friends you have already developed relationships with.
Without day care and preschool, making this transition can
be particularly challenging. Not only will children have to deal with the
beginning of education but they would have to do this without knowing their
classmates. Whilst your child will still make friendships over time, it
highlights the importance of day care to begin childhood friendships and give
your child the easiest start to life.
Building Personality Starting friendships as early as day care is massively
important as it starts to build a child’s personality and individuality.
Whether this is doing activities at day care or having fun with friends during
breaks, all this will help in your child's development.
Friends constantly support one another and learning this
during day care will help children find new hobbies and interests and make
friends with people who share those same interests. This not only helps build
friendships from a young age but also assists in the emotional and social
development of a child.
Accepting Everyone Having diversity is fantastic and for some children, this may
not be something they experience until later in life. However, day care is
essential for all children to grow up with children from different backgrounds
from a young age, building childhood friendships with everyone they interact
with.
Children should never be sheltered from people who have different
backgrounds. Going to day care will make sure everyone is accepting of others
as they grow up and that any friendships can begin to blossom as soon as day
care begins. This should also encourage sharing, politeness and helping to
treat everyone equally.
Friends For Life? Although it doesn’t happen for everyone, many friendships
that start from a young age end up lasting a lifetime. This just demonstrates
another reason why starting childhood friendships in day care could massively
impact your entire life, not just early life.
Giving your child the right platform to make friends from a
young age and develop the best possible friendships during day care could set
them up for life. Building friendships is perhaps the most important way to
grow confidence and day care is an integral part of this so find the right
friends that could last a lifetime.
Contact Us If you are still considering day care or you are unhappy
with your current day care, get in touch with Little Steps today. We can talk
you through our facilities and make sure you have full confidence in our day
care before starting your child here. Call us for any advice and information on
01234 889518 07340 956 133 contact form
to make an enquiry.
