In your day-to-day life, you often have to be polite - at work, with friends and family, in the store, and elsewhere. At the same time, greeting and goodbye is a kind of indicator of the level of your culture. It is necessary to teach your child to say hello and goodbye even at preschool age so that you do not have to blush for not saying hello to teachers or your friends. The ability to be polite plays into the hands of adults in many ways, since a friendly greeting is always conducive to communication.
Instructions
Step 1
Assess your home environment and the nature of communication between family members. Politeness is instilled in childhood, and the main examples in this case are the parents and their relationships with each other. If a child from early childhood observes the neglectful communication of parents who do not greet each other, do not wish good morning or good night to themselves or their children, then this type of communication becomes the norm for the child. It can be very difficult to re-educate him later, since he does not consider the words of greeting to be something important and necessary.
Step 2
Teach your child to say hello when he is just beginning to be interested in toys. To do this, it is useful to play with the baby, to play mini-performances for him, in which toy characters appear in front of him with the welcoming words: "Hello, how are you?" When the baby grows up, he himself will begin his games with a greeting with his favorite toy.
Step 3
Communicate with people politely, set a positive example for the child. If a child sees that mom and dad start the day with the words "Good morning", and when they come home from work they greet each other, then soon he will begin to say hello himself. When meeting a colleague or acquaintance on the street, politely greet him. If the child didn’t say hello with you, do not accuse him of being bad and ill-mannered in public and make him say “Hello”. But in private, you should still explain to him that it is ugly to do this, because without saying hello, he gives the impression of ill-mannered.
Step 4
Give your child examples of polite communication. Read books with your child about impolite children and how useful it is to be considerate and cultured. You can diversify such activities by drawing together the heroes of the books who behave correctly and those who do not know how to behave. It is useful to hang pictures in the child's room so that he often recalls bad and good examples of behavior.
Step 5
Don't rush the child. Do not pressure your child if he is not able to immediately follow your advice. Its development should proceed at its own pace. A child of younger preschool age can be reminded about it in a mild form every time he forgets to say hello.
If you follow these recommendations, then the time will surely come when the child himself realizes that greeting is an important part of communicating with people.
