Top Things Your Toddler Must Know Before Going To Kindergarten

Top 9 things your kid must know before going to Kindergarten 

Below are the top ten things I personally feel much important for a toddler 

to know before he/she go to kindergarten. Our kids are so precious to us that

we sometimes overlook some habits which might looks very odd when they go out. 

1. Potty Trained : 

Your child must know how to use toilet. They must be taught to inform an 

adult if he/she needs to go to toilet.  Just feel the moment if your child pees 

or poops in the class floor and it has be cleaned by some aaya, very 
embarrassing. So it is the first part important point to teach your baby 
to inform the teacher about his/her need and go to toilet.

2. Teach to wear pants and button the cloths:

Really, this might look very small point but, it is very important for a toddler

to know to wear pants and button his cloths. If kindergarten, even though 
some nanny is available, they might get irritated if a kid does not know to 
wear a pant. so, it is better to teach them this too..

Wearing pants

3. Know to wash hands and use tissue/napkin to dry:

This is very important habit to teach the toddler to clean his hands with soap
or hand wash. and dry the hands with tissue or napkin. Until they were 
inside the house they are much protected from infections. Once they aree
exposed to open world, it is very easy to get infected soon. The very common
problem that can see in toddlers is flu, cough, diarrhea which are caused
by infections. so it is very important to teach them to clean the hands on 
timely basis.

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4. To drink water and manage their snacks:

Teach to drink water when required. Tell them the importance of water, 
else they might forget completely. Ask them to open up the snacks box 
at snacks hour and eat.

Drinking

5. Train to hold the pencil :

This is also one of the important point to teach. In a class of 10 or 15 or 20,
a teacher might not able to concentrate on everyone. So it is always better 
for a parent to teach the toddler to practice with pencil. To create interest
 in them, start with crayons first. In this age, they love colours. So at 
home just provide so colour pencils and let them draw as their wish, but 
teach them the right way to hold the pencil.

Holding Pensil

6. Teach a common language:

At home if you are using a local language like Tamil, Telugu, Hindi or 
Malayalam please prepare your toddler to face the outer world which uses
English as a common. No need to really master English, but should able to
understand simple commands and able to respond.

7. Teach their name and parents names: 

A toddler should able to tell his name as well as his parents name. If much 
possible try to teach them about the house address or any easy contact
detail. In any emergency if required they should able to tell the contact details. 

8. Train sanitary habits; 

Train the toddler to cover his/her nose and mouth while sneezing and 
coughing. This stops from spreading infection to others. It is better to 
train to cover his/her mouth when others sneeze or cough too.. :)

Sneeze

9. Moving freely with other children :

As most of the children are not exposed to others much, they might feel
uncomfortable when they go out. so it is better to send them to play 
grounds where they can mingle with other kids and it will be much easy
for them when they go to kindergarten.

Moving with others

I feel the top 9 points are very essential for a toddler before going to 
kindergarten with my personal experience... If you want to add or 
share anything else.. Please do write to me..