Are many mothers paying attention to their children in this way? When the child is reading the picture book, let the child come over to eat the fruit; when the child is quietly playing with the blocks, he is afraid that the child is "lonely", and chats with the child: "Baby, what are you doing?" Is this the house you built? ”
As everyone knows, these "special" concerns of yours may affect the children's valuable concentration.
How to measure your child's concentration
As the "key" of cognitive activities such as perception, memory, and thinking in the brain, the benefits of good concentration to children's learning and life are self-evident. So, how do you measure concentration?
Some mothers feel that their children "can't concentrate and can't sit still for a while", which may fall into a misunderstanding: the longer the attention span, the better.
In fact, the more important measure of concentration is concentration continuity. Simply put, it is the ability to quickly return to the original thing when working and studying, wandering or being interrupted in the middle.
The child's brain and neurodevelopment are not yet perfect, and it is difficult to connect in time. This requires us parents to help our children in a timely manner when they encounter difficulties or are not interested.
For example, when a child looks at a picture book and wanders to see butterflies outside the window, the mother can remind him: "Where did we just talk about?" What happened to the bunny? Let the child learn to "grasp" the attention back.
The length of attention span of children of different ages varies, so mothers don't have to worry about their children's "too short focus time".
In general, concentration increases with age, and the younger the age, the shorter the focus time.
●The attention span of a 2-year-old child is about 7 minutes
● 9 minutes for 3-year-olds
● 12 minutes for 4 years old
● 5-6 years old is 15 minutes
● Children over the age of 6 can maintain attention for 15 minutes or 30 minutes or more by contact.
Source: Rice Cake Mom "Baby Inattention? Actually, you don't understand him! 》
How to raise a "focused baby"?
Concentration is so precious, how can mothers cultivate their baby's concentration? Babies of different ages have different needs.
Babies aged 0-3 years:
Protect focus
Let your baby explore freely
Take a block, and after exploring for a period of time, the young child often looks at the parent with his eyes or hands the block to the parent. Take a good opportunity for your child to interact with you and tell your child how to play and what new ways to play.
Create a quiet and orderly environment
At home, set up crawling mats, toy tables and reading shelves in a corner to create a quiet and orderly space for children. Outside the space, parents remind themselves not to interrupt their children's free exploration activities.
Parent-child play time
Play is an important channel for young children to learn and explore the world. Parents interact with their babies through daily parent-child play time and gradually build emotional bonds.
You can play these little games
Black and white tuka (0-5 months): Improve visual sensitivity and enrich children's cognitive structure.
Massage touch (0-12 months): Coordinate the five senses and stimulate brain nerve development.
Tibetan Cat (4-12 months, 12 months later): Understand the concept of object permanence.
Babies 3-6 years:
Improves concentration
Multitasking disassembly
When children have difficulty accomplishing something and begin to have emotions, parents can help them sort out the task. Create a list of individual tasks, with start, end, events, and more.
Seeing the list, children can intuitively feel the time they have completed a certain task; in addition, the long-term accumulation of records can make children feel a sense of accomplishment.
Regular work and rest
If you "concentrate" for too long and work continuously, you will have memory loss, dizziness, and brain blankness. This indicates that the brain has turned on the automatic protection device to remind the owner that it is time for rest. Therefore, the combination of children's work and leisure is very important.
About 30 minutes of reading, online lessons, etc., you need to look out the window, or go out of the door to drink a glass of water, so that the brain can "rest and recharge" to maintain more efficient concentration.
Relax and exercise more
Relaxing and stress-relieving can make children enter the learning state more quickly. Parents can guide their children to exercise more in their spare time or arrange excursions during the holidays.
Concentration has an important impact on children's learning status and learning effect. The cultivation of "focusing on the baby" requires parents and babies to work together! Come on!