What a Dizzying Peek into the Preschool Social World!

September 30, 2008

Life in preschool is all work and all play, inextricably intertwined at all moments.  Never is this more evident to parents than through peeks into the world of our preschoolers' social interactions. 

Figuring out who you are by yourself, with your friends, in the world, with people like you and different from you -- it's often in the navigating of these relationships that we best understand the great fun and great challenges of the growing years. 

This month at Being Savvy has been another jam-packed one, and you all have been especially interested in our tour of the social and emotional world of preschoolers and their parents.  Looking back, we certainly considered a ton of topics together:

• the essentials of starting school
• reminding ourselves why socialization is so much of what preschool learning is all about and what socializing means to our little ones
• the delights and the challenges of playdates and birthday parties
• the fickle world of preschool friendships, both real and imaginary -- and expert insight on how best to parent your way through these fledgling friendships
• expert advice on seeing the world from the perspective of the shy child
• the great fun of preschool buddy stories and games to play with your preschool pals
• what is learned from sharing lunchtime with your classmates -- and how to survive dinnertime with your family with manners tips for all!
• resources for making a big move with your bewildered little one in tow
• tips on how to talk to your child about differences in his world
• a reminder of how essential it is for rookie moms (which means all of us, really) to get together with their friends too
• diplomacy skills for the preschool set, and particularly in the world of learning to share -- and expert tips on creative problem-solving
• why strangers can also be aunties, in this village of child rearing
• the best ways of bringing siblings together, from minimizing squabbles to doing fun things with kids of different ages
• inspiration and perspective on becoming the parent we want to be to our children and their friends, watching friendships grow, the magic of being us two -- and why hug-o-wars would solve so much!

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