- Learn to wait. Some things people want to give their children or do with them are more appropriate at a later age. Be patient; the optimal time will come. Stay focused on where they are right now.
- Help your child start a collection of something interesting.
- Help them learn to sort: the laundry, silverware, etc.
- Watch at sunrise. Watch a sunset.
- Analyze your child's wardrobe, and build a wardrobe aimed at freedom of movement, independence, and freedom from distraction.
- Make regular trips to the public library, become familiar with the librarians and how the library works, and enjoy books together. Borrow books and help your child learn the responsiiblity for caring for them and returning them.
- Arrange time for both parents to attend parent-teacher conferences. Speak together in preparation for the conference, and write down questions.
- Assign regular, age-appropriate household tasks that need to be done to maintain the household (perhaps setting silverware and napkins on the table, sorting, recycling, dusting, watering plants, etc.)
- Refrain from replacing everything that gets broken. Help children learn the value of money and the consequences of actions.
- See that your child learns to swim (the younger the better).
Excerpt from Tomorrow's Child Magazine, September 2012
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