What Should We Do to Choose School Bags Properly?

Posted by Eduard Kouts on Aug 8, 2010 in Bags, Featured, Kids | 2 comments

Hello, adults! We are all from the childhood. Remember how much joy you had when you received the first school bag in your life! How your heart missed a beat in the pleasant anticipation of something new and interesting! Everybody loves to receive gifts in childhood and when we grow up, it becomes more pleasant for us OURSELVES to give presents to the nearest and dearest. When purchasing school bags, it’s possible to combine business with pleasure for all members of the family. Some will buy new things and others will receive them. And since two parties will participate in the choice of bags for school, each of them will be satisfied.

If you decided to buy school bags, it may be an excellent way of communicating with children with the use of educational moments. Prompt, advise, steer the reasoning of a child in the direction you need. It will be not just a discussion on one particular topic, but a pleasant family conversation. Your child will learn, in the first place, to pay attention not only to the appearance of a product. With your help, he will learn to consider the value for money. It will help children to be conversant with goods markets subsequently in their adult life. Take on trust that the more time you communicate with children, the more benefits you will receive. Children sometimes see everything with their specific vision; they understand rather with the soul than with the mind, their intuition is better developed. Sometimes they come up with such great ideas that it seems they’re even smarter their parents. Adults have to listen to their intuition whereas kids, in their turn, have to learn adult pragmatism.

School book bags have to be durable, the fabric has to be water-proof, as they are purchased not for one day use, but for a long time. And at the same time, they have to be light, because books are rather a heavy load. A school bag has to be compact for a schoolboy not to look like an alpinist with a tent behind his back. And at the same time, these bags must have enough partitions so that they could, in addition to books, contain sports clothes, cell phone, money, food and other necessaries of life. A side mesh pocket is provided for a bottle of water.

Girls need specific girl’s school bags, the color and design of which will fit their image and in which there’s a room for a comb, looking-glass, etc. And boy’s school bags have to meet the needs of boys. A school book bag for children is an assistant and sometimes, to some extent, even a “friend” that they can trust some of their secrets. The world of children is oh so special!

It is beyond any doubt that the age of a child is of major importance in the choice of book bags for school. School bags in the shape of a turtle, bear or ladybird, with pictures of the heroes of Disney’s cartoons cause mockery and from upperclassmen (they forgot that recently they’d been kids themselves). Such bags for underclassmen are really a part of their childhood. They helped them to adapt to school, to make the transition from childhood to school life less abrupt, smoother. Inside such a school bag there should be a partition in which kids could put their favorite home toys.

Surprisingly, but it is exactly underclassmen that lug a huge amount of books and other accessories in the school bags. For them school bags are better with two straps so that the load evenly spread behind the back. Upperclassmen usually take fewer things to school. Quite often they purchase school bags with one strap (they prefer to carry kids school bags, school messenger bags, shoulder school bags…). Let them decide on their own. You have to necessarily consider the opinion of children in the choice of a school bag. Even if they’ve mistaken, it is their mistake, their experience. There are children whose opinions may be easily changed. And there are such that even being a child they on principle insist on buying EXACTLY pink school bags or, for example, black school bags. Decide together with children: WHAT is better, more advantageous and correct at a certain moment – to buy cheap school bags or designer school bags? Teach children how to foresee a situation (for how much the thing chosen will justify its price or its function), – it’ll come in handy in their future adult life. And it’s better if the teachers are parents, not any force-majeure circumstances. And in order for children to listen and understand that you, for all that, know MORE than they do, you need to establish trust-based relations with them on all occasions and matters yet from early childhood. Such a good example of communication may be the choice and purchase of school bags.

And in the end – about the MOST important. The main thing in relations with children: they have to know that you LOVE them. This knowing lays the foundation of their spiritual and physical health and happiness for all their life.

However, don’t go too far in your loving! Remember the popular wisdom: “Present a child not with a fish, but with a fishing rod.” The fish will be eaten at a time and with the fishing rod he’ll learn to fish and will ALWAYS be well-fed.