There should be a place for a miracle in the life of every child. After all, belief in miracles teaches a lot that will come in handy in life. Nowadays, most often miracles can be found on the stage of the theater, which children love so much.
In the modern world, where computer games, gadgets, social networks rule, people began to forget what it means to believe in a fairy tale, believe in a miracle, empathize, listen and hear each other. Most of them closed in their own worlds, afraid to let others in there.
But children are a completely different matter! Children are open to peace, communication and miracles. They believe that good always triumphs over evil, they believe that a fairy tale can come true, they believe the adults who surround them, but they just believe! And if we combine the real world and childhood, then the questions are ripening: where to find a means to preserve all that faith that overwhelms children? How to make sure that future generations are not famous for indifference and callousness? How to bring up individuality in children, a leader who makes decisions on his own, who knows how to think with his own head? There are many different answers to these questions. But the most faithful of them is the theater!
Theater is a huge world that has everything! Whichever side the child is on, whether he is sitting in the auditorium watching a performance or playing on stage, he will learn a lot, he will determine a lot for himself, he will learn a lot.
Children learn everything in this world by playing, and theater is a game. So do children need theater? Definitely yes, you do!
What can children learn from going to the theater as a spectator?
Here it is necessary to make a reservation that children should be taught to go to the theater no later than 5 years. You can start from 2 years old, only the plot of the performance should be easy to understand, and the performance itself should not last more than 30 minutes.
So what does theater teach?
Feelings
The most important thing is, of course, feelings! Watching what is happening on stage, you can experience a whole palette of emotions: love, compassion, patience, care, remorse, joy, anger, despair, the list is endless. But the most important thing is that children do not just experience these feelings together with the characters, they learn to control them and express them correctly, but to express them, and are not afraid of their own emotions.
Creativity
Without a huge baggage of life experience behind them, it is difficult for children to find solutions in a given situation. Typically, these solutions are standard and the same. Regular trips to the theater will expand the horizons of the child, together with the heroes of the performance, he will live different life situations and learn to find a creative approach and creative solutions to them.
Ability to think
Theater teaches thinking. The staging of this or that performance is the director's vision, his view of the work, his point of view, which he brings to the masses. The child, on the other hand, may disagree with the director's position. He may not like the costumes or the scenery, or he may, he may not like the musical arrangement of the performance, or he may. In any case, if you ask him a question: "why?", He will answer you. The child knows the answer, because he thought about it, pondered, thought. Of course, in order for the children to learn to express their thoughts, you need to talk to them, so after the performance, be sure to discuss with the child everything that he saw and do not impose your opinion.
New knowledge
By visiting the theater, children gain knowledge. It's like reading a new fairy tale unknown to a child. They draw knowledge not only from performance, but from everything around. New people, how they are dressed, how they behave, the foyer in front of the auditorium, the auditorium itself, music, scenery, everything that a child's gaze can catch on, gives the child new knowledge and impressions, not to mention the work itself.
Etiquette
Yes, the theater teaches a lot, including the rules of behavior in society. There are certain norms for visiting the theater that spectators have followed from time immemorial. Everything from how to dress properly for the theater, ending with when you can visit the buffet and how to behave in it, all this is studied by the child when visiting the theater. Usual norms of behavior that play a large role in the upbringing of children.
Conclusion: the theater is simply necessary for the development of children, their upbringing and perception of the world around them. By accustoming children to the theater, parents open many doors for them to success.
