Pestushka is a time-tested educational tool

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Traditionally in Russia, folklore played a big role in the upbringing of children - pestles, jokes, nursery rhymes. Every mother knows rhymes and will be able to sing children's songs, but few have heard of pestles.

What is a pestle?

This is a short rhyme that is chanted and accompanies the actions of the baby - waking up, stretching, smiling, cooing, feeding, washing, bathing. At these moments, the mother gently strokes the fingers and palms of the hands, legs, tummy, cheeks of the child.

When the baby has just woken up, read to him with the expression:

Pull your ears, pull your ears!

Where are the ears to play, rattle the ears?"

Not all children are calm about the procedure of washing. Rhyme "Vodichka" will cheer you up:

Water, water, Wash Masha's face!

To make the eyes sparkle, And Aleli cheeks, Rotok smiled, And biting a tooth!"

The well-known finger game "Magpie-Crow" is very popular with kids and develops imagination. The game of "Goat Horned" perfectly trains the attention and reaction of the crumbs, and it is better to massage the palm to the rhyme"Finger Boy":

Thumb-boy, Where have you been?

With first brother

Went into the forest!

With second brother

Cooked borscht, With third brother

I ate porridge, With little brother (little finger)

Sang songs!"

What effect do pests have on a child?

1. The pestle is a means for the emotional and tactile contact of the baby with the mother. Communication with the closest person, whose voice is familiar to the child from the perinatal period, develops the baby better than any interactive toy. It is the mother's voice that activates the maximum concentration of attention, so the songs and poems performed by the mother are necessary for the baby to develop.

2. The pronunciation of pestles by the mother gives the child the first example of verbal communication and lays the prerequisites for the timely pronunciation of the first words. It is at the fingertips of the crumbs that the nerve endings responsible for the speech centers of the brain are located. The text of the pestle is built in such a way that every 2 lines rhyme with each other, making it easier to remember the rhyme.

3. The pestle is not only a voiced poem, but also stroking, patting and other movements that act as a general strengthening massage. Due to the stimulation of multiple receptors and nerve endings, the tone of the nervous system increases, the blood circulation of tissues and organs improves, and their saturation with oxygen. Children receiving massage develop faster and gainweight.

4. Folk pestles are in the nature of a spell and are aimed at the successful maturation of the child. Thus, the mother creates a certain psychological climate, setting the baby for a harmonious and safe development.

How to sing pestle correctly?

To achieve the maximum effect for the development of the baby, pestle must be performed correctly, adhering to established traditions.

1. The best time for nurturing a child is the pre-speech period, which lasts up to 1 year, since the songs performed by the mother at this moment stimulate the accelerated development of speech. Repetitive syllables, simple and sonorous rhymes make memorizing sounds and words easier.

2. The pestle is a kind of song accompaniment to the game, in which the text of the work is situational in nature, applied to the baby. Many rhymes contain the name of the baby as the main character, so certain stanzas should be accompanied by the actions of mother and child.

3. When singing a song, the mother adheres to special intonations, stretching out vowel sounds and thereby imitating the baby's cooing. Remember, your speech should be emotionally diverse, this will facilitate the process of highlighting individual syllables and sounds by the child, their memorization and reproduction in the future.

Due to its properties, the pestle acts as a universal tool for the physical and psychological education of the child.