Parse concentration
Some parents say, "My child is still young, but he moves around every day, jumps up and down, and doesn't have enough concentration on any toy or anything. "My child can concentrate on watching TV, does that mean his concentration is OK?" Wait a minute. Parents do not worry, before solving the problem of concentration, let us understand, what is the child's concentration, and how does concentration affect the child?
First, the definition of concentration
Concentration, or attention, refers to the ability of a person's mental activity to point and focus on something. In layman's terms, if the brain is likened to a house, then attention is the door of the house. All the information that wants to enter the brain must pass through this door in order to enter.
Concentration is also the foundation of the five elements of intelligence. The five elements of intelligence include concentration, memory, imagination, observation, and thinking. Concentration acts as a state of readiness. Only with good concentration can children pay attention to and receive more external information, and then pass this information to the brain, and can talk about so-called memory, imagination and thinking. If the child does not have enough concentration, the external information that is noticed and received is limited.
Second, concentration can participate in the process of children's learning
In the process of learning and understanding the world, he receives external information through his own five sense pathways and internal perceptions.
The five sense pathways refer to sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
Inner perception, for example, is to feel the grunting of the stomach, which indicates that the stomach is hungry. When the child receives information from the outside world through these sensory pathways, it will transmit this information to the brain, and after the brain has been briefly remembered and processed, it will form the child's own thinking and knowledge, which is the process of learning.
In the process of accumulating knowledge, such as parents teaching their children to read poetry. Children first concentrate their attention in order to notice every sentence of poetry read by parents, and then they will use their own hearing to receive a large amount of external information such as sentences, vocabulary, pronunciation, and intonation in the poem to their brains, and the brain will form its own knowledge after a short period of memory and processing. This is the process of learning and cognition. Here you should know that children before the age of 3 learn unconsciously, and it feels that the channel accepts information from the outside world is a natural occurrence.
Concentration is the first step for children to participate in learning, and the quality of concentration directly determines the quality of learning results.
Third, concentration is an ability, not a will
Parents have a misunderstanding about concentration, thinking that the child's lack of concentration is because they are unwilling to focus, too lazy or have a personality problem, which is the child's own problem. Therefore, when the child is not attentive enough, the parent will feel disappointed, so it is full of complaints, or severe reprimands, harsh reprimands, snubs, and threatens the child. However, in fact, concentration is an ability, not the child's will.
From the perspective of brain science, when people concentrate on doing one thing, they must constantly distinguish between important and unimportant information, and mobilize the brain to focus on processing important information and give up those unimportant information. The human brain has a thing called the "brainstem network structure", which can filter and intercept most of the unimportant information from the outside world, and then transmit important information to the brain. Once the brainstem network structure intercepts too little information, causing massive amounts of information to break into the brain, attention is distracted.
Therefore, the degree of concentration of the child is determined by the degree of development of the brainstem network structure. This is an ability formed by the child's brain, not that the child himself wants to focus or is not willing to focus, it is not a will.