Sunday, 6 October 2013

3 Summer Activities To Get Your Kids Out Of Your Hair

By Franklin Skribbit


Children often develop the interests of their parents during their younger years, and these same younger years of a child can some of the best times to expose one's children to a wide variety of interests and activities. One of these interests that many parents wish to introduce their children to at a young age is the arts.

By all means, you thought you'd be saving so much time in travel that you could get more done while they were away. Within just a few weeks of summer break though, you quickly realized that these thoughts were nothing more than dreams, dreams that were quickly crushed.

And just to be clear, when the term "the arts" is used, it is meant to describe the wide reaching arch of art and all the various disciplines that fall under that arch, including such disciplines as drawing, painting, sculpture, music, composition, playing instruments, drama and theater, dance, fashion, and even cinema.

Getting a child interested in these areas will help them to be exposed to a much larger view of the world outside their current interests, whatever these may be.

One thing that is often dismissed as not important is social intelligence. This is developed early on in children as they interact with others around them. This can be another good reason for children to go to preschool. Not only do they learn how to interact with other children, but how to do so in a structured environment. This is a recipe for success in the future.

You get time to get things done at home/work and your children are entertained throughout the day. Can you beat that? There are a number of similar day camps wherever you live. Consider enrolling your children in one or more of them.

One of the first ways that a parent can help expose their children to the wide reaching world of art and its various disciplines is by simply incorporating more artistic pursuits into their own lives. By becoming more involved in the arts themselves, a parent will be able to naturally expose their children to the arts and develop the child's interest in the arts.

Rotate through homes in a predictable fashion and you'll gain at least one or two days alone every week. That could be just enough time to get your sanity back.

Furthermore, a parent can instill a curiosity of the arts within their children by undertaking various art projects within the home. A parent should remember that even in this at home activity, art can be so much more than drawing time with crayons and paper.

While drawing time itself is another great way to introduce children to art, other in home art projects can include such things as clay molding, the production of mini plays to be performed for others in the home, dancing time, helping with cooking to introduce the child to the coronary arts, or other similar activities. With these simple tips, and with any others that the parents themselves can come up with, a parent will be able to introduce their child to the wide and wonderful world of the arts.




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