When parents give birth to a child, the first thing they will consider is definitely the child's future.
In order to expand their children's future possibilities and children's future happiness, most parents will think about how to nurture their children - early childhood education and talent education.
However, many people have a misconception about early childhood education for the sake of children's success. In fact, the important thing in early childhood education is not the success of the child, but the happiness of the child.
Children are happier than they are when they succeed in general such as graduating from a top university or with a high salary, and they are more likely to be the result of "becoming what they want to be".
Early childhood education is an education that expands the possibilities of children in order to become what they want to be.
0 years old What you need to know about early childhood education up to 5 years old!
Early childhood education, what is important?
What should I do to get the most out of my child's abilities?
This article revolves around these three questions. After reading this article, parents of children should be able to understand the essence of early childhood education, and can clearly know what to do and how to do in order to cultivate their children's abilities.
1. There are 4 points that parents must know in parenting.
Let's start with the conclusion, the 4 points are, the right time for the right stimulation.
Cultivate children's own self-impression and evaluation.
We will support your child's peace of mind and build a relationship and environment where she can grow up with peace of mind.
Improve the abstraction of children's thinking.
From the perspective of brain science, according to the child's brain development age to give the appropriate stimulation, the child has an appropriate evaluation of himself, the parents become the child's backing, the child's intelligence-related abstract thinking ability will be developed, which can play a very obvious role in the child's growth.
If you can do these four points well, then you can build a foundation for your child to maximize his or her abilities.
Let's explain them one by one.
1. First of all, it is necessary to understand the "critical age" - the appropriate period of stimulation can maximize the child's ability.
That's really, really important. It makes no sense to impose it on children in early childhood education.
Critical age is genetically determined, the age at which various organs of the brain are developed. Proper education at these appropriate times will have a very high effect. On the contrary, education that is not suitable or overdone is not only ineffective, but may also be counterproductive.
To put it simply, it is "the period when the brain is most efficient and suitable for learning".
It's not about what you have to do until what you do, but to a certain extent, because it is related to the development of the brain in this and that field, you can learn efficiently.
For example, speech skills are most effective when learned between the ages of 8 and 13. To learn Chinese or learn a foreign language well, you must not ignore this period - during this period, you can learn the language and foreign language well to accumulate experience, and its efficiency and effect are many times higher than that of other periods.
2. Cultivate children's recognition of their own impressions.
Self-impression, which can also be partially expressed in other words, such as self-affirmation, self-esteem, etc., is the child's understanding and evaluation of himself, and it is also an extremely important point in early childhood education.
Self-evaluation is how you see your own things and how you evaluate your own ability.
People, in essence, can't be more than what they imagine, and the idea that they can do it to a certain extent can really only make themselves a certain degree of people.
Then, children's self-evaluation is often formed by their parents.
Parents use negative and negative statements on their children on a daily basis, or impose their own values on their children, etc., which can lead to low self-esteem of children.
When implementing early childhood education, parents must pay special attention to the language used by their children in order to enable them to have a high self-evaluation of themselves.
3. Become a "comfort zone" for children's lives.
The third point of early childhood education is to "provide a comfortable and safe environment for children."
Studies have found that children who are able to constantly challenge new things and be able to resurrect themselves even if they fail are basically children who are in the comfort zone for children.
Comfort zone refers to a good place or space in the consciousness that makes the mood feel comfortable and can settle down, or such a relationship, situation and environment.
You can always keep yourself relaxed and relaxed.
Once the child feels that his or her parents are his comfort zone, then the child can grow up with peace of mind and health, and then build a relationship of trust and peace of mind with his or her parents.
If the relationship between parents and children is not very friendly, and children will often feel uneasy and fearful, then the child's growth process will be accompanied by stress, which will greatly affect the child's psychological and health. At this time, due to the characteristics of human beings - the operation of homeostasis to maintain the status quo, it is basically impossible for children to get out of stress and anxiety through their own will, and the impact is very bad.
Therefore, in order to prevent children from living in an environment of anxiety and fear, parents must create a comfort zone for themselves and their home environment.
4. Improve the abstractness of children's thinking.
The degree of abstraction is the height of the point of view. The higher the degree of abstraction, the higher the viewpoint and the greater the scope of view.
Training children to improve their abstraction in early childhood education can not only improve their IQ, but also broaden their visual range of various information.
For example, the perspective of "me and you" will be elevated to the perspective of "citizens", "Chinese", and then the perspective of "earthlings".
If you can do this, you can effectively improve the IQ of your child's intelligence index.
The higher the IQ, the more you can truly recognize the space that your body cannot experience, and you can manipulate consciousness.
For example, Einstein, the theory of relativity can only be completed because what happens in the universe can be understood realistically.
Even if it is just a little bit of abstraction, it will be directly related to the child's intellectual improvement - this is an important item in early childhood education.
2. After talking about the four points of early childhood education, let's start talking about the five abilities that children must cultivate up to the age of 5.
Let's start with the conclusion, the 5 abilities are:
1. Ability to speak and speak.
2. The feeling of sound.
3. Perception of light and color.
4. Athletic ability.
5. Mathematical ability.
These five abilities are the ones that should be focused on cultivating in early childhood. Because of these 5 abilities and feelings, children can eventually become the basic ability of "the person they want to be".
In order for children to acquire these five abilities, the key is the element of "critical age", and if we teach them in a timely manner, we can give them appropriate and appropriate education during the period when the child's brain is developing and what is most suitable for learning, so that each child's abilities can be cultivated.
On the other hand, if we do not understand the element of "critical age", no matter how much time and money is spent on early childhood education, there will be little or no effect.
In other words, for the critical period when the child's brain is most developed, parents must first be able to understand it 100%.
In the following, I will explain the above abilities one by one.
1. Ability to operate the language.
The first ability that young children should develop is the ability to use language.
Of course, the first language to be proficient in must be native Chinese, and then in order to be able to cope with the college entrance examination and other studies in the future, it is natural to learn English (or other foreign languages) as an active international human resource.
A critical period of language proficiency].
Between the ages of 8 and 13, language skills are at their most developed.
However, the infant period up to the age of 5 is the period when the ability related to the "sound of the language" is most developed, and it is not necessary to let the child learn it during this period, but it is necessary to let the child be familiar with the sense of sound, so if it can last for 5 years, and let the child listen to the English pronunciation of the native speaker for 1 hour while playing every day (such as English fairy tales, other English audios, etc.), then when the child is over 5 years old, if he wants to start learning English, he can master it at rocket speed.
After all, language ability is only the ability to read and communicate or communicate, so the more important thing in early childhood education is to exercise the ability to "sound the language" before learning language ability.
If both parents are Chinese (if one party is a foreigner, of course, this condition will be more favorable), then there will be no problem with the natural Chinese sound, so as mentioned above, until the child is 5 years old, let the child hear the "native pronunciation" every day (do not need to understand, that is, listen to the pronunciation, want this feeling of being able to become like Chinese), which is very important for the possibility of children learning English quickly in the future, and even becoming a "second mother tongue", absolutely cannot be avoided.
Some people here may wonder, if you listen to Chinese and English at the same time, will you become unable to learn both, and learn the level of half a bucket of water?
There is no need to worry at all. If you look at the fact that children from mixed-race families are a little older and can quickly become bilingual, you will understand.
By the age of 5, children can hear the "sound of speech" in Chinese and English, and as they get older, their ability to hear and distinguish will still exist, so it is good to feel at ease.
In addition, not to mention English, the writing power of the mother tongue Chinese needs to be mastered by the child in early childhood.
In other words, the learning of Chinese characters, reading, listening to audio, etc. is the key, and English is not to learn or understand listening until the age of 5, and you can listen to it for 1 hour a day.
In the future, learning must be mainly in Chinese, and overwhelming writing power is necessary. For children, the cultivation of a sense of presence in words is the most important part of children's language learning.
A method for cultivating a sense of presence in Chinese characters (character power).
Until the age of 3, parents should read to their children every day, usually, before going to bed, as much as possible.
When the child can start reading on his or her own to a certain extent, then daily pronunciation is essential, and it takes some effort (there are so many benefits).
Parents can play more learning-related games such as text solitaire and text guessing with their children (but don't let your child feel that this is learning, in fact, the child does not understand it very well).
Parents should be aware of these things related to words and words, and they should be done as part of their daily habits, so that children will easily master the basic skills related to words and language.
2. The second ability that needs to be cultivated in early childhood education is "the feeling of sound".
As already pointed out in the above explanation of speech ability, the critical age of the perception of sound also exists. If you want to let your child develop in the future, or if you want your child's speech ability to grow rapidly, then let the child listen from birth and complete the cultivation of this ability by the age of 5.
This ability is called "absolute pitch".
The absolute sense of tone needs to be mastered through solefege (solfège, vocal practice).
solfege = the training of melody, timbre, rhythm, etc., sensibility, listening, expression, and all abilities including sound and related theories.
Solfege training is best done through the guidance of experts, such as taking children to the ** classroom from an early age is the best way.
The act of listening to a sound requires the whole body to perceive the pressure waves generated by the various vibrations of the instrument into the ears.
Because the ability to listen to subtle and detailed timbres is very important, it is important for children in early childhood to listen to the sounds, rhythms, and vibrations of various musical instruments.
What I recommend is to listen to the children from the age of 0 to the age of 2 every day ** to listen to 1 hour of classical music, especially strings, and then 1 hour a day of foreign languages. Foreign languages can be listened to when the child is awake, and **soft classical** when the child is sleeping**.
Do not fish for three days and dry nets for two days, the results will definitely surprise you, such as the speed at which your child learns a foreign language.
3. The third ability that must be cultivated in early childhood is "the feeling of light and color".
The critical age of vision is around 5 years of age. This is the ability to understand shapes and combinations of shapes in three dimensions, and when they can be used vigorously in the future, such as the ability to learn mathematics, recognize the direction of the way, and sense of color, etc.
However, the ability that must be cultivated before that is "the ability to recognize light and color", and the key age is between 0 and 1 year old.
The ability of light and color, that is, the ability to paint, sculpture and other art-related skills.
If you want to cultivate children's ability in art and design, then you should never ignore the training of light and color ability of 0 1-year-old children, because this is related to the possibility of children becoming painters, cartoonists, designers and other professions in the future, which will be greatly improved.
Here are some of the ways parents can train their children in light and color:
By the age of 5, children should be exposed to as many colors as possible.
Cultivate children's interest in doodling and drawing, let children draw and draw as much as possible, and scribble OK.
You can buy crayons and colored pencils with a wide variety of colors, so you can use as many colors as you like.
In the morning, evening, and daytime, the same color will also change visually, so guide your child to perceive these differences.
These require training that parents guide their children to do before the age of 5, and through these cycles, children become sensitive to light and color stimuli.
The above training is enough, and as for the detailed color matching and design, it is not too late to learn later. But with the blessing of these training results, these abilities can be improved rapidly in the future.
4. The fourth type of ability that parents need to cultivate with their hearts is "motor ability".
Early childhood allows children to experience various sports, and in the future, children are more likely to develop various sports-related abilities.
Moreover, exercise in early childhood is not just about exercising athletic ability, but also the ability to promote dopamine secretion, or the ability to promote smooth secretion, through various exercises.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter related to motivation and motivation, and the construction of this pathway in early childhood is of great significance to the development of IQ and other non-cognitive abilities in the process of children's growth, especially perseverance.
Even young children should be supported by their parents to let them exercise more, which is very important for early childhood education.
Specifically, parents can do this:
0 years old 3 years old, basic sports such as crawling, walking, playing with toys, swimming, etc. It's not a good thing to hold as little as possible, sit in a stroller, and don't take care of your child.
After the age of 4, participate in and train in team, collective, and partner sports under the rules, such as participating in a football team (not to become a soccer player).
One thing to note is that there is a distinction between suitable and unsuitable sports for children in early childhood, and parents should be aware of it.
For example, sports suitable for early childhood – sports that can maintain body balance and strive for a sense of balance, such as athletics, swimming, football, etc.
Sports that are not suitable for early childhood – sports that can cause a breakdown in the balance between left and right, such as golf, table tennis, martial arts, etc.
The physical growth process of children in early childhood is relatively delicate, and it is actually very important for children to participate in sports. But by allowing children to experience as many sports as possible, they can choose to discover their preferences from their children's feelings, which is the awareness and sensitivity that parents need.
5. The fifth ability that must be cultivated in early childhood is mathematical ability.
In fact, the ability to mathematics is the ability to exist in a higher space than the ability to speak, the sense of sound, etc.
The key age of math ability is different from other abilities or feelings, and there are not many age restrictions.
From a young age, you can learn little by little while growing, and the ability to master step by step is mathematical ability.
Mathematics is a highly advanced science that describes the world of God and the phenomena of the universe in ancient and medieval times.
* It is also a type of physics derived from mathematics.
In order to improve children's math-related skills, this can be achieved by raising the level of abstraction that has a great impact on IQ.
3. Finally, make a summary.
1. There are 4 points of early childhood education, and parents must have the awareness and knowledge:
1) Know the most appropriate educational content for different ages, that is, understand the meaning and meaning of the key age.
2. Cultivate children's recognition of their own impressions.
3. Become a "comfort zone" for children's lives.
4. Improve the abstractness of children's thinking.
2. 5 abilities that must be cultivated in early childhood education:
1. Ability to speak and speak.
2. The feeling of sound.
3. Perception of light and color.
4. Athletic ability.
5. Mathematical ability.