22/12/2022
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Waiting for Christmas with children? Do you want to add a sense of ceremony? Say hello to an Advent Calendar! Uncovering one box a day not only reveals a small surprise gift, but it also has educational significance: to cultivate the ability to delay gratification and let children master the abstract concept of time.
|From German🇩🇪 traditional customs|
It is said that the Advent Calendar first appeared in church families in Germany. The parents hung a religious Christmas picture outside the house every night, and the children knew that Christmas was coming after seeing 24 pictures! Other parents drew a chalk line on the gate and let the child erase one every day.
Later, a German mother put biscuits in a box and made an agreement with her child to eat one every day, which added a delicious anticipation to the countdown! When the little boy grew up, he had an idea and turned this childhood practice into printed matter, and so the world's first printed Christmas Advent Calendar was born in 1908!
|Does the child have the patience to only open one frame a day?🤔 |
"I really want to open up the candies!" Faced with temptation, it is normal for children to find gifts irresistible, especially children under the age of 5, who generally do not develop the ability to delay gratification until they are 8 to 13 years old. Even as adults, sometimes we really want to reveal all the grids at once 😂!
📣 To cultivate the ability to delay gratification, the key point is that children should get enough "satisfaction," not "delay."
If children are asked to give up immediate gratification, or if they do not get the right amount or more satisfaction later, it will destroy the child's sense of security and trust in parents. The result may be counterproductive. When the child encounters what he wants, he may become greedier.
Therefore, when using the Advent Calendar to develop the ability to delay gratification, you might as well make an agreement with your children—not only will there be a small surprise every night, but if your child can agree on only opening one grid every day, there will be an extra surprise on Christmas Day!
Parents should help their children understand that after waiting patiently, they will really get what they want. This will also help develop the willpower to resist immediate temptation.
🎅 The December issue of "Little Red Apple" comes with "Your Christmas Advent Calendar," a super easy and simple DIY, allowing you and your children to use the hand-made Christmas Advent Calendar to welcome the surprise before Christmas every night! 🥰
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