Labor creates a human personality. And it is necessary to teach children from an early age. Because it is in work that you can instill a sense of responsibility, honesty, collectivism, caring, the ability to take into account other people and respect their interests. Labor education in the family begins from the age of one, when the child is taught not to scatter toys and put them in place after the game, hang a jacket on the hook and put shoes on the shelf. For such children, this is a continuation of the game, but systematicity is important in it. The child grows, and the tasks are complicated: in addition to learning to serve himself, he can carry out such simple tasks as helping to arrange plates or spoons, water a flower, feed the fish. By school age, the child already knows quite a lot, so by this time he may have some constant feasible responsibilities. For example, taking out the trash, washing dishes, cleaning up in your room, looking after the younger ones in the family, walking with pets, going to the store for small purchases. Whatever types of housework you assign to children, it is important to build labor education on the following principles.
- Work should be according to the strength and age of the child.
- Before you entrust the unfamiliar business to your son or daughter, show how to do it right, and do it together several times.
- When assessing the result of labor, be considerate, do not criticize or scold, so as not to discourage the performance of this work. Show again and be sure to praise.
- Try to find a creative approach, the child should enjoy the work.
- Labor should not act as a punishment.
- Organize joint work for children. Accustom to manual work, applied creativity. Hang items made by the hands of babies or put them at home. He will be pleased to see that they are using it.
- Teach children to respect other people's work.
Labor education should be carried out at home along with the school. The school takes an active part in this issue and distinguishes two types of labor: educational and socially useful.
Educational work is understood as mental and physical. During mental work, the child exerts a large amount of will and patience, learns purposefulness and perseverance. Good mental skills have a positive effect on the physical. The school curriculum includes physical labor during classes in workshops, as well as in sections of the schoolyard .
Socially useful work is nothing more than work for the benefit of the school team, self-care at home and at school, domestic household work, the skills of which are also needed at school while on duty in the classroom, and maintenance of plantings in the courtyard of the house or school. This also includes any patronage of work: on the lower grades, on orphans, on the disabled or on war veterans.
Labor education of schoolchildren is achieved by organizing various activities. But in order for most of these labor programs to work effectively and be interesting for children, it is important to make them original using a modern approach. Of course, it is unlikely that class duty or work on the school site will change much. But the interest in these classes can be spurred if you stimulate the guys with a bonus (not material), or by arranging a competition for the title of the best duty month. Similar to the way pioneer and October groups were created earlier, labor groups can be created today by dividing children into small groups within a class or among parallel classes. Each of them receives his task, his territory and is responsible for them.
Labor education should not be limited to this - creative work is also of great importance. To encourage children in this direction, it is necessary to arrange regular competitions and exhibitions of children's works. And once every six months, hold creative fairs where items made by the hands of children can be bought for a small price. Labor education must necessarily be the subject of dialogue between teachers and parents. And the task of teachers is to form the right attitude to work in parents.