LEARNING IS FUN: GAMES TO TEACH TABLE MANNERS

Slowly our babies are growing and we return to family outings and visits to friends' houses, where children, after 20 months, already want share a table with the elderly and feel integrated. Our goal is that we all enjoy the moment, but also that they learn to behave at the table, so the ideal is to gradually educate them, at home and much better if we do it with games, books and songs.

The good manners they are not only essential, but beneficial for them and what you learn from small, is forever. Parents should not forget certain rules, the first one, that everything is new and we must make it attractive for children. So play arm yourself with patience and not make dramas, so that they and we both enjoy learning.

Education begins before sitting at the table

In addition to marking some lunch hoursNothing like the routine for a child to feel safe, we must insist on the need to wash their hands before sitting at the table. Our kids must adopt the hygiene habits that will accompany you for life as good manners and help you lead a healthier life.

It is also important that each person in the family have your site. This routine is easy to overcome if the child has his "special chair." Many times they get cuddly because they want to sit in the place of dad or mom, or older brother or grandma. This is where the airport game begins.

The airport game

A special chair for a pilot who must set the course. The Chicco Mode Elevator will be an excellent incentive to mark our child's site. Thanks to its padding, it is very comfortable from 6 months. further you will not miss your special chair when the food is away from home, you will immediately recognize your site and follow its routines.

Once you are sitting at the table, the airport game begins, which consists of do everything possible to control the plane. To start anything, throw yourself on your plate, until the rest of the guests are served. Our child is the pilot of the plane and must wait for his crew. Nor throw food, make small balls with bread or play with cutlery, as the plane could fall.

It is curious to see how children of two or three years manage to manage the cutlery with skill to continue being a pilot. A good way to remind you of the game when you get distracted or start to get bored is to call from the Control Tower so that our little one returns to "control the cabin".

The game of the American West

Feel like a Sheriff of the Wild West, it is something that children love, especially if they are the Law. Hands under the table just to take the napkin from the lap. A rule of good manners that we see that even an adult has forgotten (or perhaps never played Wild West at home). It is known that this basic rule originated when firearms could be hidden under the table, it is a good education to have both hands visible and not one under the tablecloth, holding the gun ... or whatever.

This game makes them very funny, especially if they really have a toy in their hands, of those who don't want to let go. The Sheriff cannot break the rules. You also can't have mustaches, so you should clean your mouth before and after drinking water and watch that nobody at the table skips the laws and behaves like in the Wild West. Only bandits break the rules and misbehave.

If you have a bright star which is put on and removed depending on how he behaves at the table, will be the most proud child in the park. This can lead to putting a poster of a sheriff on the wall and hitting gomets golden stars, as points, to get the prize you can think of.

In order not to fill the glass with grease or food you can invent songs or poems, interspersing the children's name. You have to be patient if these rules are forgotten at the beginning (or even after a long time of repeating it), it is not about creating a trauma but about correcting an attitude so that it does not become customary.

We do not live on a farm

One of the things that adults carry the worst, especially if we are eating out, whether in restaurants or homes of friends and family is that the food falls to the ground or they fill everything around their plate of remains. The first thing is to ensure that the child is well placed, in a lift chair high enough to reach the table. He Chicco Mode Elevator It can be adjusted in height to adapt to different tables, in fact it has up to three different heights, to grow with the child.

Although there are people who believe that it is best to laugh at the child, because it is often funny, why should we deny it? It is a mistake to laugh at the lack of education: belching, eating with your mouth open, sucking the knife, scratching your hair and putting your finger in your nose, are actions that must be corrected kindly but firmly.

Remind them that they are not animals on a farm usually works and although the first day they become funny, the rest of the days they don't want to be pigs or burritos. Still they are still in a learning process and it is inevitable that they get stained, for that we have another advantage of the Chicco Mode Elevator chair that allows to remove the cover and wash it in the washing machine, while they learn to handle the cutlery.

Finally, it is very important to never forget that the little ones do what they see, that is, the classic, lead by example… And that leads us adults to always ask children for things please and thank them.