Guest Post: How Christmas Helps a Child’s Development #MotivationalMonday

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As you can imagine the Summer holidays are a lot like Christmas in that it confuses my youngest son (who we think is Autistic) and therefore he needs a lot more attention.As I have less time then I have agreed to a  guest post on the importance of Christmas on children’s development – they have kindly offered to giveaway a Christmas tree – fear not this is open until November 25th – I hope that is late enough in the year for you.

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How Christmas Helps a Child’s Development

Christmas is a busy time of year; there are a lot of plans to make and a lot of arrangements that you need to stick to in order to please all of your friends and family. When it comes to children a lot of people think that the only thing that’s important to them at this time of year is the gifts that Santa will put under the tree. However, although the gifts that they receive are important for their development – if you pick the right ones – there are also many other elements of the festive season that it’s important for children to be involved in.

When I comes to Christmas time you’ll probably be excited about spending time with your family putting up the tree, cosy late nights in front of the fire and of course the numerous Christmas parties that you’ll probably find yourself attending. For children the excitement is school plays, their favourite movies, late nights and the family parties that they’ll be able to come along to as well.

Although the type of toys a child is given will essentially help their mental development it is the social hype that surrounds the Christmas period that will help their social development.

Whether you go out carolling, decorate the tree together, throw a festive party, write letters to Santa, visit a grotto or just go sledging in the snow, doing the same things each year will help your children maintain some stability in a world that’s ever changing and will hopefully teach them the values and traditions that your parents taught you and they’ll pass them on to their own children in the future.

Gifts

When it comes to giving gifts at Christmas there’s a lot of choice out there. Children nowadays are a whizz with technology as their entire lives revolve around it with TVs, games consoles everywhere you turn. Even school isn’t an escape from the modern digital world as something as traditional as a black board or white board has now been replaced with an interactive white board. In order for Christmas to be a benefit to a child’s mental development it’s really important to consider the toys you give as gifts. Rather than opting for something that’s easy like a copy of their favourite film or a new game for their games console think about the things that you used to play with and consider whether or not these are still considered good toys today. Lego and other building blocks or a picnic set or Wendy house will all spark a child’s imagination and allow them to get much more from their gift that just a set of toy blocks.

With the number of children with mobile phones rising significantly in the past decade it’s no wonder they’re growing up so quickly with almost three quarters of children (73%) owning a personal mobile phone by the age of ten.

Modern electronic toys and mobile phones actually hinder a child’s development as they force them to think in a certain way. The old fashioned, traditional toys on the other hand promote imaginative play as a stack of blocks becomes a princess’ tower and a bicycle a time machine. One way to prevent the smothering of your child’s imagination and encouraging them to grow up too quickly is to be responsible when buying gifts for Christmas as this will actually help further their development. It’s really easy to buy responsibly too, it just means checking the packaging of everything you buy to ensure it’s aimed at children of your child’s age and not anyone older.

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177 thoughts on “Guest Post: How Christmas Helps a Child’s Development #MotivationalMonday”

  7. Wow there are a lot on here this week. It’s been an active Country Kids for us so I’ve lined up. Thank you

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  32. I have 2 christmas trees up right now and they’ve been there a year or two. They’re just little ones, but I like them so I don’t see why I should put them away! I used to have a large one that was up all the time but I gave it away when I put the house up for sale…never did sell it!

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  38. Our tree goes up around the 12th of December and comes down about a week or so after xmas day… then the room looks so boring and bare.

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  41. We put up our Christmas tree one week before Christmas Day as we’re in Germany until then and so we can’t water it before leaving! We take it down 12 days after Christmas Day 🙂 With love, Faye xx

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  52. We put our tree up a couple of weeks before Christmas, and take it down around 6th January :). When we take it down we all sign a little card for the end of Christmas

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  53. We always put it up on 2nd December and make mice pies
    we Take it down on the 2nd Jan and make our new tears resolutions

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  55. We used to put our Christmas tree up on 1st December until our little boy was born on 2nd December so now we usually put it up the weekend after his birthday and let him have that Christmas-free first. Then we usually take it down around 2nd or 3rd January.

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  59. Christmas is the best holiday so we put our tree up mid November and it doesnt come down til about mid January 🙂 We love Christmas in our house, lol.

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  77. We put ours up 1st December (kids get too excited to wait lol) and comes down around 10th January. (by then im sick of the malting needles! lol)

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  79. Our tree goes up in mid November and comes down as late as possible. We go to florida for thanksgiving so it’s always nice to come home to a decorated house.

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  102. Ialways used to put mine up as late as possible but now with a nearly 3 year old and a 17 month old we are gunna put the tree up on 1st december and we are gunna make paper chains and just have a really good time just getting really excited about christmas 🙂

    I take the tree down a couple of days before my boys birthday, his Birthday is 6th jan so its usually down the 4th just so he doesnt get confused 🙂

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  119. I usually put mine up mid December, but this year its going up a little bit earlier as its my daughter’s 1st Christmas, we’ll probaby take it down around 5th/6th January

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  121. Embarrassingly the tree usually goes up Christmas Eve! This year I will be organised though and it’s going up about 2 weeks before. To come down – hopefully just after New Years!

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  160. We always put our tree up on the first Sunday in December and make a whole afternoon of it, having carols playing, mulberry scented candles lit and have christmassy snacks. Once we have the tree finished we sit and watch ELF and laugh ourselves silly. We usually take it down again on the last Sunday before the 6th January.

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  164. we put ours up nearer christmas as we have an evil cat who takes it down EVERY night. its not a nice sound hearing baubles clattering up the hall at 4am!

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