How to raise smart children?

Raising smart children is the hope of every parent, hoping that their children will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes.

But how do smart kids get raised?

Parents want their children to be very good from an early age, and having a good child as a parent feels very proud, and other parents will look at you with appreciation.

As for smart children, I think there is also a part of the gene, and there is also a part of the nurture. The cultivation of the day after tomorrow should begin at the age of 0, and 0-6 years old is a critical period for children's intellectual development.

The child's brain has amazing plasticity before the age of 6, the first thing to do is not to teach the child to memorize poems or do mathematical problems, but to start from the cornerstone of intelligence and thinking, to help children develop sensory and language skills, cultivate concentration, memory and primary logical thinking, and encourage observation and imagination to create.

First, the shape and function of the brain

The brain is divided into two hemispheres, the two hemispheres are connected by the callosum, which is composed of clusters of nerves composed of about 25 million to 30 million nerves, and the important value lies in the transmission and connection of information on both sides of the body and brain.

The cortex on the surface of the brain is divided into: prefrontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe and temporal lobe. These four zones have different functions:

Prefrontal lobe: The frontal lobe, which plays an important role in the preparation and execution of actions. The prefrontal lobe, in particular, can integrate information obtained at different times to determine the order of response, and the frontal lobe is also involved in the control of some fine movements.

Parietal lobe: Located at the top of the head, it mainly processes the input of various sensory information from the body, such as touch, pain, temperature, internal organs and other proprioception.

Occipital lobe: In the back of the head, the visual information obtained from the eyes is processed, so that people perceive the color, shape, size, spatial position and so on of the object.

Temporal lobes: On both sides of the temples, is the auditory processing area.

Although different lobes have different functions and have their own division of labor, they do not operate in absolute isolation, but are interconnected and work together.

Second, how the function of the brain is realized

Neurons are the most basic unit of signal processing in the brain. Neurons receive information, make "decisions" according to certain laws, and then pass the information on to other neurons. Different neurons play different roles in shape, function, location, and connection to each other.

The external signals received by our bodies are transmitted to the brain through neurons, and the neurons of the brain understand these signals through complex signal transmission, and then send instructions through the neurons of the outgoing nerves, and we make actions.

Third, the brain development of 0-6-year-old children

Brain development is accomplished by an increase in the number of neurons, the migration of neurons, the constant determination and differentiation of neurons, the increasing dendritic differentiation and synapses of neurons, and the consequent reduction. The first three developments are basically completed in the mother's body.

After the child is born, the number of neurons is basically unchanged, but the weight of the brain is increasing, the volume is also increasing, because the dendritic branches of each neuron are increasing, the synapses at the end of each branch are also increasing, and the increased speed and number are related to the child's contact with external information, the more interaction with the outside world, the more stimuli provided to him by the outside world, the more it helps his development. Because the more dendrites and synapses there are, the more connections there are between neurons and the greater the amount of processed information.

On the one hand, the brain constantly increases the connection of nerve cells, and on the other hand, it wraps dendrites and axons through glial cells, which not only constrains the continuous increase of branches but also standardizes the connection pathways, making the transmission of signals faster and more accurate.

The increase in synapses begins at 27 weeks of conception, and by the age of 1 and a half years is the peak of development, while the process of reduction begins later, both ways are carried out after the birth of the child, and the rate of increase before the age of 3 seems to be greater than the rate of reduction; after the age of 3, the reduction effect will be more pronounced.

Therefore, after the birth of the child, especially before the age of 3, under the premise of ensuring safety, we must encourage the child to explore freely. After the age of 3, you can train him more according to certain rules, through continuous repetition, some of the same, meaningful actions to practice and compare, to help children find valuable and meaningful neural connections.