The Kindergarten.
Where your child DOES behave. And if it stays over lunch - it WILL use cutlery and chew with its mouth shut.
These things, alas, do not happen in the home... not even if you use threats, bribes, and/or positive role modeling. Attempts to create the same "peer" atmosphere by inviting 3-4 of the said child's friends over for a meal - also doesn't work. (You'll just have 4 times the farm-yard behaviour your own child likes to exhibit at the table.)
How on earth do the Kindergarten teachers manage it?
über me!
- pyjamamel
- Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
- Of antipodean origin, currently living in Germany with the "Ger-Man", not-nearly-as-little-as-he used-to-be "Caspi-Man" , "The Cheeky Monkey", and four-legged "Banjo". Dream is to have a permanent place in both hemispheres and the means to travel betweeen. Am lucky to have family & friends in far-flung corners of the globe but, where ever I am, I'm missing someone terribly. Prone to procrastination and to wearing pajamas and animal ears - I often find myself outside my comfort zone...life seems to be a continually- vertical learning curve...
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I don't know how they manage either.
My kids spent part of last weekend at their Oma's house. When I called to see how things were going, she said the kids were CLEANING UP. Apparently this is something the kids do on their own accord when they're there.
Why can't the kids do that here at home?!?!?!?
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