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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Matching and clothing selection
Every child needs to be taught how to match their clothing. When children come from foreign countries where this is not important, it is hard to impress upon them the importance of dressing appropriately. Please comment on how to teach this.
OK this is an idea that I heard of once but have not tried. It makes sense and so I will post it. This is the idea: Take a picture of each item of clothing that the child has and develop the pictures (about 15 cents a picture) then sit down with the child and use the pictures like flash cards and show them what is a match and what won't work and explain why. Once it registers you will have taught them a valuable skill. If they don't seem to "get it" connect some good matches with tape and put them up in their room behind the door or even in a little notebook so they can have some outfits pre-determined for them. Right now we have our boys show us what they plan to wear the night before but we won't be there to do this when they are 30 so they will have to learn the skill sometime.
OK this is an idea that I heard of once but have not tried. It makes sense and so I will post it. This is the idea: Take a picture of each item of clothing that the child has and develop the pictures (about 15 cents a picture) then sit down with the child and use the pictures like flash cards and show them what is a match and what won't work and explain why. Once it registers you will have taught them a valuable skill. If they don't seem to "get it" connect some good matches with tape and put them up in their room behind the door or even in a little notebook so they can have some outfits pre-determined for them. Right now we have our boys show us what they plan to wear the night before but we won't be there to do this when they are 30 so they will have to learn the skill sometime.
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