Orientation of Children Towards a Family in the Process of Getting Familiar With Parents’ Childhood

Abstract

The practice of preschool education insufficiently shows the system of work on getting preschool-age children familiar with parents’ childhood, undervalues the effectiveness of this process, its influence on the formation of family values, the desire to follow suit parents as the examples in the behavior and actions. The paper reveals the problem of the orientation of preschool-age children towards the family in the process of getting children familiar with parents’ childhood. The relevance of the study is justified by the process of updating the approaches to the organization of interaction of kindergarten teachers with the family, the formation of a valued attitude to the family. The study shows that adult family members and preschool-age children do not have sufficient information about each other. Children find it difficult to name their parents’ professions, not always tend to speak about the family. All this gives evidence of the loss of generational connection, and, as a result, insufficiently formed ideas about the family in children; the loss of perception of the family as a value; the weak emotional bonds between parents and children. According to the results of the study, the author identified that the orientation of preschoolers towards the family is possible when getting children familiar with parents, their childhood. The research pays special attention to the disclosure of bright events from parents’ childhood, their relations with their family members, and important moments from their lives. In the process of getting preschool-age children familiar with their parents’ childhood, children begin to take pride in their family, fill interest in their family as the bearer of family traditions.