Education Guide

This is a time when many parents are renewing registration, or looking for a new school for the children first. Before closing a school year, we are organizing the next.

Those looking for a massacre of learning in kindergarten, will behave as the son in high school, with the neurosis of the SAT? We spent a lifetime studying, why hurry? I think our role is to try to protect children from adults in this frantic rush.

I talked with a psychologist and psychoanalyst Claudia Monti Schonberger on the school’s role in the life of the child to “maternal”, aged around two years. She said the play is one way to find the child in this age group. When she plays, in general, is expressed through the body. Noticing how the child plays, as arises, how you walk, and what is playing her posture can assess how it is. In the game, shows what he thinks and feels.

At this age, children do not need pedagogical activity, the important thing is that is playing. “Play is really important for the child, and play with the whole body. Get under a toy out, up, down, slipping … All of this will already preparing that child for a formal learning said there forward. Because it is a challenge, it is an experiment. So really, if the child goes to a school where she plays with that age, I think the educational project is barbaric. ”

The analyst believes that to meet this challenge and it is important that the child find a school routine, because it is reassuring to her. It is no wonder that children arrive, are received by the teacher, will be putting on a wheel, telling something, coming in every day routine that gang who has the time of free play, lunch, history, lunch, sleep and so on.

“Of course it will have an impact of the unknown, learning a new routine. Depending on the child, can be fascinating. Difficult, but fascinating! ”

Claudia Monti assesses that good preschool has small classes and an educational project that considers the important play. The school entry may be the first opportunity for the child who has no siblings learn to share the look of the adult who cares for her.

“A child may have a first child a little more difficult, but it is a great learning for her, not only an adult looking for her. This is growing, will be for life. ”

With families increasingly numerous and without the old collective living spaces such as squares and streets full of children running and playing, is that in schools children are learning that living beyond the confines of the family close, often formed only by the father and mother.

“The group is expanding and that’s healthy. Formerly the family was aware of it. The woman had other social function, was more at home, had several children … Children were learning to live and to share in the family. Today, in a city like Sao Paulo, where there is no more room for collective living, I understand that school comes to mind this early childhood rather than a social group other than the family, “he opined.

Claudia Monti believes that today is part of our culture, the great expectation “that go to school” by parents and children themselves. It emphasizes that it depends on how this new entry into the environment is set up, the safety of parents in relation to the chosen location.

“It may be a child who has little contact with children of similar age, that is fine, and who is willing to expand their opportunities to live and learn. If she gets a warm, caring, loving, and there meets other children, find an adult whom she can trust and for a deposit depositary with whom she was caring for her at home, can be very interesting, “explained .