Life-style early education, let parents become teachers

Concern the child

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Early education starts with newborns, which allows the brain to get enough stimulation, even if the brain is more functional and structurally perfect, and promotes the potential ability to be better utilized. Recently, the reporter's investigation found that many urban parents have lost interest in early education classes, and "life-style early education" is quietly becoming popular.

What is "life-style early education" is to advocate "promoting early childhood development in daily life". For children aged 0-3, the family is his most important activity place, so "early life education" emphasizes the family environment and the importance of family to the early growth of children. "Life-style early education" originated from the "PAT" movement advocated in the United States in the 1980s, which means "parents as teachers", advocating that "early education is not to educate children, but to educate parents".

Less than 20% attach importance to family early education

The reporter randomly surveyed 30 parents of 0-3-year-old children, and found that half of the parents believe that their children also need early education and learning at home, but about 30% can do practice; only less than 20% can do systematic practice.

Among the 30 parents, 6 parents think that there is no need to give their children early education, they believe that when they were young, they did not go through systematic early education, and the development of their children should go with nature; there are 4 parents whose babies are less than one year old, and they think it is better to go to early education classes when the baby is older; 11 parents although they understand the role of early education on the development of their children's potential, but because of various factors such as busy work or high costs, they did not let their children attend early education classes. However, the survey results show that more than half of parents have read books on early education and can partially train their children at home, but not systematically.

Among the parents surveyed, 9 families reported to the early education class, usually once a week. Among them, 4 parents rely on early education classes and do little to train their children after returning home; the other 5 parents, in addition to taking their children to early education courses, will insist on training their children in various abilities according to the training of early education classes and the early education books they read.

"Move" the game of the early education class home

Mother: Gao Nannan (college teacher) Son: Jin Jin (1 year and 4 months)

I began to prepare for parenting from the beginning of my pregnancy, when I frantically read all the books related to parenting that could be found in our school library: from prenatal education to preschool education, I hope that I can save more knowledge and not waste the golden period of children's 0-3 years old intellectual development.

When the child was born, I realized that "the paper is shallow." Looking back now, the early education in the first three months was also a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, which was very unsystematic.

Later, when my son was 3 months old, I enrolled him in an early education class. In the first few months, early education was once a month, and I was responsible for memorizing the teacher's actions and essentials, while my husband carefully took notes on the side. When I came back, I sorted out this month's early education training plan according to my notes. I usually list the general training content of the day, such as focusing on visual and reading in the morning, doing big exercises and fine movements in the afternoon, and exercising musicality in the evening.

Six months later, my son started attending one early education class a week. I think that early education classes are actually the right way to teach parents to educate their children, if only these 45 minutes, it is difficult to really improve the corresponding ability of children. Therefore, I will buy the corresponding music, sensory teaching aids, and "move" the games in class home, so that my son can also experience the fun of class at home.

Although "moving" early education home did take up a lot of my time and energy (I had to spend five or six hours a day with my children), the results were really amazing. The son's ability in all aspects, such as big movement, fine movement, music and other abilities, is generally 2 months ahead. At 7 months, the son can climb, 11 months can walk, 1 year old and 1 month can talk, at 1 year and 2 months, the baby can already keep up with the rhythm and stomp his feet...

You can also go to "early education" for a normal life.

Mother: He Jie (translation) Daughter: Meng Meng (2 years old)

The daughter has a very regular schedule in less than 3 months, will call her mother for more than 6 months, and can fluently speak 6-8 words of sentences at 14 months. With keen observation, she can quickly find the position of something in the family; social skills are first-class, go out to take the initiative to greet children, play things willing to take turns, willing to share; living habits are very good, where to take things back to where to go, dirty hands to ask for washing, fell down and climbed up...

Many friends inquire about which early education class their daughter is enrolled in? To talk about early education, my daughter did accept it, but it was not in the early education class, but the early education that my husband and I took to integrate into life and imperceptibly.

Before the birth of my daughter, my husband and I dabbled in a lot of books about early education, from the birth of my daughter, whether she understood it or not, my husband and I would continue to talk to her, and we also fully used our fingers to guide her eyes to lock on the target and recognize things. We also attach great importance to playing games, listening to music, reading, walking, and packing things with our daughter. In these life-oriented activities, we always integrate early education for children, such as training her fine movements when doing bean game for her daughter; exercising her language and musicality when listening to nursery rhymes and other types of music; and cultivating her self-care habits when packing up toys. Although she did not take early education classes, her daughter still exercised all her abilities in these daily life and game play full of "early education elements".

Family is the most important teacher

"Isn't education a teacher's business?" When it comes to "life-style early education", many parents do not think so. Shao Zhiwen, head of Sanyou Kaizhi Baby and Child Home, said that parents are particularly important to their children's early education in daily family life, and it is far from enough to rely on the curriculum of early education classes.

0-3 years old is the formation stage of children's personality development and intellectual potential, is the key period of children's development, then if you can stimulate the child's vision, hearing, touch, etc., you can comprehensively improve the child's big motor, fine motor, speech, cognition, emotion and social behavior of the five major abilities. Sun Jiaqi, general manager of the education department of oriental baby-friendly China headquarters, also said that these rich stimuli cannot be completed with just a few dozen minutes of early education courses every week.

For children aged 0-3, most of the time is spent at home, accompanied by family, so the influence of the family environment is very important, and it is also the most important and important place to carry out early education. The influence of the family on children's psychological quality and behavioral development is unmatched by other environments such as schools, with the characteristics of "enlightenment, long-term, emotional, and infectious".

Shao Zhiwen introduced that from the perspective of the place where the baby receives early education, the family style and the central style are the two main forms. At present, the way for infants and young children aged 0-3 to receive early education is mostly central, the advantage of this form is that many professional teachers can be concentrated, education and training in a carefully arranged environment, professional facilities, and the disadvantage is that it is necessary to pick up infants and young children long distances, which is inconvenient, costly, and not very free in time.

Many early education institutions in Jinan have also introduced professionals who can provide early education guidance at home, and regularly go to the family to provide parenting and early education guidance. Sanyou Kaizhi also prescribes training prescriptions for children who come to early education classes, and parents can formulate training plans at home for their children in accordance with the guidance of early education experts.

Elements of life can be turned into teaching aids

For nurturers, it should be clear that children have different sensitive periods at different times. It is understood that children first use their mouths to perceive the world. Therefore, sucking fingers is often to meet the needs of exploration; when the child reaches the sensitive period of the hand, he will enjoy grabbing and throwing things very much, if the parents ask the child to "do not move" and "quiet" at this time, it is equivalent to inhibiting the child's normal development needs.

In addition, a very important part of "life-style early education" is to turn the "life elements" around children into teaching aids. Telephone, curtains, toothbrushes, bathtubs, towels, TV remote controls, sofas, drawers, clothes, shoes and socks, teacups, pots and pans... Can be a good teaching material.

Children spontaneously focus on playing with water, playing with sand, playing with rice, playing with toothbrushes, turning over the toilet lid, climbing up and down, turning over boxes and cabinets, grabbing and throwing away, are all important learning processes, so parents can use these opportunities to help their children grow without missing the opportunity.

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