The most favorite action of a 2-year-old baby is to repeat.
After the age of 2, many careful parents will develop, babies will often make repetitive movements, like a regular life, if suddenly break the law, they will be the first to resist.
Moreover, they never find repetitive movements boring, but they are full of passion every time, just like playing with Tibetan cats, hiding in the same place will never change.
A 2-year-old baby listens to a story dozens of times
Xiao Huabao is a 2-year-old little princess, since her 2nd birthday, her mother wants to let the baby sleep independently, but not in her own room, but in the same room as her mother.
In order not to make Xiaohuabao too resistant to sleeping by herself, her mother would coax her to sleep every night and tell her bedtime stories, but in recent times, Xiaohuabao always asked her mother to tell her the story of "Snow White".
After talking for a few days, my mother felt bored and wanted to change a story for Xiao Huabao, but Xiao Huabao was very resistant and cried and cried to listen to "Snow White". And when her mother stopped to drink water, Xiao Huabao was able to continue to talk on her own.
In this way, my mother is very incomprehensible, this is not a story that can already be memorized, why do you have to repeat it? Is the little flower treasure grinding people?
In addition, when her mother is not at home and cannot coax Xiaohuabao to sleep, and her father wants to tell her "Snow White", she would rather sleep without listening to the story than listen to the story told by her father.
This made the father feel very cold, is it not good that Xiao Huabao has a bad relationship with himself? Is Xiao Huabao complaining that he has spent too little time with her? It's actually Dad thinking too much.
Behind such torture, in fact, intelligence is growing
Montessori said: "If the practice is repeated, it will improve the child's psychological sensory process, and repeated practice is the child's intellectual gymnastics." ”
In the process of children's intellectual development, their understanding of the outside world, in addition to their own exploration, is the experience instilled by parents.
Although the latter is far less effective than the former, it is also an indispensable and important part of growth.
Moreover, babies can get experience in any kind of behavior, in which listening to stories is a stimulus to the ability to express language, and by repeating the story, they slowly accumulate experience in expression.
Just like the story of Snow White, the more you hear, the baby will know that Snow White is very kind, his stepmother is very vicious, can not eat strangers' things, and so on.
In addition, when the baby listens to the story, they feel the same way, when Snow White faints, they are very anxious, when the prince saves Snow White, they are very excited.
Because they don't know that this story is made up, just like when parents casually promise their children's promises, the baby can remember it.
We might say that when a baby likes to do repetitive, regular behaviors, it means that his brain is beginning to develop, and they want to take a step forward to accumulate enough experience in repetitive behaviors.
What should parents do in the face of this stage of baby?
Live in strict accordance with established rules
The baby's memory is good or bad. If they are asked to recite some Tang poems and Song poems, they must repeat them many times in order to remember some sporadically. But if you ask them to remember the way home, or the rules of the game, they can remember every minute.
The result of this is not determined by the baby's subjective consciousness, but by their perception of external things. The stimulation of physical objects is far better than the stimulation effect of words. Whether it's the weather, the sun or the buildings.
When it comes to the fork in the road, if the mother does not follow the usual path home, the babies will lose their temper and feel that the mother has disrupted their own rules.
Repetitive games are more in line with your baby's wishes
Babies around the age of 2 are in the stage of intuitive image thinking, and they can only believe what they see with their eyes. Just like the snacks that their mothers hide, they can never remember, and if they can't see them, they don't mean they don't.
The baby's thinking at this stage is very simple, black and white, seeing is being, is existence. Applied to the game of hiding cats and cats, the mother must hide in the same position every time.
Otherwise they will lose their temper or lose interest and patience in playing games. At this time, they do not like to find surprises and excitement, but like to follow the steps and develop regularly.
Therefore, instead of the mother trying to hide it and make the baby feel frustrated and disappointed, it is better to hide in the same place honestly and get the baby's recognition and like.
Today's Topic:
What is your baby's favorite bedtime story at this stage? How do you treat them?