Queue at the clinic - for the game!
A trip to the clinic often becomes an unnerving event for both the mother and the child. Children get bored while waiting for their turn and begin to invent entertainment for themselves: walking down the hall, running, shouting, talking to other children and adults, crawling under the changing tables or on benches. Mothers and grandmothers try to calm down especially noisy ones, grumble, make remarks, and from everywhere one can hear: “You can't, you can't, you can't”.
Parents get tired and angry, but the children can also be understood: they were locked in a room with boring walls, there are no toys here, and sitting quietly on a bench when the energy is overflowing is torture.
But sometimes you have to wait more than an hour! We suggest replacing this waiting time with the time of playing and communicating with your child. Think how often we do everything on the run. And here is just the case when there is no need to rush anywhere.
So what can you do in the doctor's queue?
Getting to know the place
For many children, going to the doctor is a cause for concern. Unfamiliar premises and people, or memories of past hikes, can be alarming. Therefore, in the beginning it would be good to talk with the baby, tell him about everything he sees: doctors are sitting outside the door, treating children, mothers with children are in the corridor, and here are pictures, and here is a window.
Images
If you have not brought toys with you, use whatever is in the room. Show your child the medical posters, no matter how boring they are. A one-year-old child will pay attention to fruits and berries on a poster about healthy nutrition, and a six-year-old is already looking at the structure of the human body with interest. Still, often the posters in the clinic are not very interesting for children, so it is better to approach the poster with the child: "Let's read what is written here!" And among the long descriptions, choose a few interesting facts - new for both you and your child. “But I didn't know…” “What do you think, if…” - such phrases may already be the beginning of some kind of dialogue that can distract from a long wait.
For the little ones: playing with the palms
If a small child is completely tired of waiting, you can cheer him up by playing with fingers. Squeeze his handle into a fist and bend your fingers under the rhyme:
- Finger-boy,
Where have you been?
- With this brother
I went to the forest.
With this brother
I cooked cabbage soup.
With these brother
I ate porridge.
With these brother
I sang songs!
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A squirrel is sitting on a cart
Sells his nuts:
Little fox sister,
Sparrow, titmouse,
To the clubfoot bear,
Zainke mustache.
Let's go!
In such a boring place as a queue, it's good and a little fooling around with the baby, rocking him on his knees. We usually don't have time to do this at home.
Let's go let's go
With nuts, with nuts
Galloped, galloped
With kalachi, with kalachi!
Skipping, skipping
Over bumps, over bumps -
Throw in the hole!
Quiet catch-ups
But many children need movement. How to be? You cannot rush along the corridor. If you overcome a little the parental desire to sit on a highchair, you can play quite calm catch-up:
"Follow me, stepping only inside the cells, you can't on the line."
"Will you and I tiptoe to the end of the corridor?"
"Follow me, putting track on track."
"Catch me back forward."
"Come on you will go the hard way, and I will repeat your movement."
Attractions
The rides are noisy and fast. And there are quiet attractions when children perform some not quite simple tasks of an adult.
- Invite the child to stand, put heels and socks together, and put his hands behind his back so that the hand of one hand wraps around the wrist of the other. Now, squatting, he must lift from the floor a small object located at his leg.
- You need to walk in a straight line with such a strange step: put your right leg behind the left and put it as far as possible; then bring the left leg behind the right and take the same step.
- You need to carry a piece of paper in your palm from one wall to another. If a piece of paper falls, it must be picked up, put on the palm and continue moving.
Riga stew
The adult turns to the child. They both hold their hands in front of them, clenched into fists. An adult shakes his fists and says: "Rigu-ragu, rigu-ragu ...", and then sticks out his thumbs and says: "Fence with horns" or "Deer with horns." If he pronounced the name of an animal that does have horns, the child should just as quickly stick out his thumbs. If the parent names an animal without horns or some object, the child's fists should remain clenched. When the child is wrong, you can switch roles.
Nonsense
The child secretly from the mother conceives a word. Now mom asks him a question, and he answers with a hidden word. For example: "What were you driving today?" "On a hippopotamus." "What do you like to eat for breakfast?" "Grasshoppers". Then you can switch roles.
You can complicate the game if you answer the question not with a word, but with a line from a song. "What do you dream about?" "I am a genius detective!"
Train your memory
An adult names a word (noun, common noun, singular, nominative), the child repeats it and adds a second. The parent repeats two words already and comes up with a third. The child will need to say four words already. The game continues until someone gets confused.
An adult can tell a child that you can not just memorize words mechanically, but come up with a story with these words, then the order of the words will be easier to repeat. For example, in order to remember the row "squirrel - snail - shovel - cake - bulldozer ...", we come up with the following story: a squirrel met a snail with a shovel, a cake was lying on the shovel, it looked like a bulldozer ...
Pencil and paper games
If you have a pencil or a pen, as well as a piece of paper with you, your stay in the clinic can be made even more interesting.
- The simplest thing is to ask your child to draw two identical drawings at the same time with both hands. Now let him try to draw two different ones. How will you do it?
- Try using a picture to “write down” some phrase, for example, “I came to the clinic today and met a frog.” You can give such picturesque letters to each other to guess.
- Draw a squiggle on a piece of paper, and then pass the sheet to the child. Let him finish your line so that you get a meaningful drawing - an animal, person or object. Now let the child draw the squiggle, and you will turn it into a drawing.
Puzzles
All kids love these tricky riddles.
- Why does the cow lie down? Because she can't sit down.
- Why does the kitten cross the road? To be on the other side.
- How to pick a branch so as not to scare the bird? We must wait for the bird to fly away.
- How many peas will go into the glass? Not a single one, peas do not go.
- What tap won't you get drunk from? From the lift.
- What color is the stop valve on the plane? There is no stop valve on the plane.
- How can a thrown egg fly three meters and not break? You need to throw the egg four meters.
- What gets bigger if you put it upside down? Number 6.
- How to jump off a twenty-meter ladder and not crash? You need to jump off the bottom step.
- When is the easiest time for a black cat to get into a house? When the door is open.
- How do day and night end? A soft sign.
- Can an ostrich call itself a bird? No, ostriches don't speak.
- What is the most important lunch? Mouth.
Joint fairy tale
And finally: you can just compose a fairy tale, telling it in turn, when everyone adds according to the sentence. Children like writing fairy tales on the principle of nonsense.
Remember! A hungry child himself is not happy about his excessive activity. Therefore, a juice box, a bottle of water, fruit or cookies will be useful in your purse. Take small toys from home. Depending on the age, the child can play with them with your help or by himself. Let him reproduce the situation - he brought his toy animals to the doctor, but they are bored and need to somehow keep them occupied. Or he is a doctor, and toys are patients. Help your kid develop the plot.
Article author: Daria Velizhanina
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