The benefits of reading for children, many mothers are aware, even if they are not too clear about the details, at least know that reading is the "biggest" factor that has a positive impact on children's growth. However, a Harvard study found that reading behavior is not the best way to promote children's brain development.
This is a research project on the development of infant and young children's brains, and in the process of conducting the study, the researchers divided the study subjects into three groups, equipping the children in the first group with picture books, the children in the second group with toys, and the third group of children without any items as a control.
After three months, the researchers counted the situation of these children, and found that the brain development of the first group, that is, the children equipped with picture books, was obvious, but the second group, that is, the group of children equipped with toys, had better brain development. In the third group, the control group, brain development lagged behind the first two groups.
The final findings showed that the best way to stimulate children's brain development during infancy and infancy is not reading, but toys that are often overlooked by parents.
Why do toys stimulate the brain development of infants and young children more than reading?
Many parents may question, saying that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", why is the "lost" behavior of playing with toys more beneficial to children's brain development than reading? This is actually related to the development characteristics of infants and young children.
In infancy and toddler, the baby's development state is a state of full development, and its various abilities are seriously insufficient, and it is necessary to achieve better growth through external stimulation.
▲ Reading is more simple for the baby's brain stimulation
In this case, reading behavior is only a visual stimulation and thinking flexibility exercise for the baby, it is difficult to have some deeper impact on the baby, such as literacy, context, tone, word accumulation, etc., because the baby at this stage is in the "stage of not understanding anything", the main purpose of reading is to cultivate the foundation for future reading habits, as well as to enhance parent-child relationship.
▲ The act of playing with toys will give the baby more stimulation to the brain
But toys are not the same, toys for the baby's stimulation is a variety of, such as sound and light toys can stimulate the baby's vision and hearing, the grasp of the toy can stimulate the baby's touch and limb coordination, hand-eye coordination, etc., some building blocks and other toys can also exercise the baby's sense of balance, sense of space, etc., it can be said that in the process of playing with toys, the baby's senses will be more direct, comprehensive stimulation, which will make the baby's brain receive more signals, so as to be in a more active state, The development of the brain will naturally be faster and better.
That is to say, the behavior of playing with toys is more suitable for the development characteristics of infants and young children than the behavior of reading, so the brain stimulation brought to the baby is more, and the baby's brain development is naturally better.
Although the baby's behavior of playing with toys in infancy can make the baby's brain develop better, it does not mean that it is possible not to read.
Reading habits still have a big impact on your baby's growth
Reading for the child's growth impact is irreplaceable, in the infant period, parents still need to maintain parent-child reading, one is to develop reading habits to lay the foundation, the other is in the infant period, although reading is not the best way to stimulate the brain, but it has an irreplaceable positive effect on the growth of the baby, such as language enlightenment and improvement.
Therefore, parents should not give up reading because playing with toys is more stimulating to the brain of infants and young children, because after the baby grows up, the importance of reading will slowly become prominent, if you do not lay a good reading foundation when you are a child, it is not easy to help the baby develop a habit of reading, then it is not so easy to cultivate after growing up.
Playing with toys is good for infant development, but pay attention to the correct choice
Playing with toys has great benefits for the growth of infants and young children, but this benefit is based on a condition, that is, parents need to choose suitable toys for infants and young children, if the choice of toys is not appropriate, the baby is likely to not get the benign stimulation it deserves, and sometimes there will be some dangerous situations.
So, when choosing toys for children, what do parents need to pay attention to?
According to the baby's development characteristics to choose: for example, the baby is in the hearing sensitive period, then prepare some sound toys for the baby, so as to carry out a certain benign stimulation for the baby's hearing, so that the baby's auditory development is more excellent. Grasping the sensitive period of the baby's development in various parts and preparing the corresponding toys will achieve the effect of doubling the results with half the effort.
Pay attention to the safety of toys: This is very important, in general, infants and young children have serious appetite behavior, so when choosing toys for babies, we must pay attention to choosing no small parts to prevent the baby from swallowing, the material is non-toxic and harmless to prevent the baby from biting, the quality design is reasonable, to prevent toy damage to the baby, and the choice of large brand toys is more secure.
Don't "try it early": There are many kinds of toys nowadays, and novel toys appear every year. And the mothers have a heart to let their babies play with the latest toys, and feel that this is a kind of love for the baby.
But here is not recommended for the mother to buy some too novel toys for the baby, because many too novel toys are actually IQ tax, some even with danger, or some mature toy styles are more beneficial to the baby.
In addition, here to say that adults feel that the toys are novel because these toys adults have not seen, but for children, novelty toys and "old" toys are the same, because the baby has not seen, so the safety verified "old" toys are safer and more suitable for babies.
Write at the end
Playing with toys can stimulate the brains of infants and young children to develop faster, but don't leave reading, after all, this habit is a habit that is beneficial to children throughout their lives.
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