Source: Little Coke Mom Says Parenting
A while ago, Coke's father always urged me to buy literacy cards for my children.
He said, "My colleague's child is only 4 years old, and he already knows hundreds of words, but our coke knows few words, and if he doesn't learn it, he will lose at the starting line!" "
However, I firmly told him that there was no need to be in such a hurry to teach children to recognize words.
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In 1968, something happened in the United States that caused a sensation in the country.
A 3-year-old girl, under the guidance of a kindergarten teacher, met the first letter "O" on the gift box "OPEN". Her mother was surprised.
Before that, the girl would say "O" as apples, suns, soccer balls, etc., but since being taught by the teacher, she only thought it was the letter "O".
To this end, the mother took the teacher to court, accusing the teacher of destroying the child's imagination.
Before the age of 4, the child is in the stage of image thinking, mainly using the right brain. But words are abstract symbols, and premature recognition of words not only fails to make children understand and absorb, but also destroys children's imagination and creativity.
In fact, when we read some picture books to our children, we can find that children are often more interested in the pictures than the text.
If parents teach their children to recognize words ahead of time, they will overdraft their children's learning interest and self-confidence in advance.
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Perhaps some parents believe that the more parents teach, the sooner their children grow up.
But this is not the case. Dr. Arnold Gesell, a prominent expert in child psychology and founder of the Gesell Institute for Child Development at Yale University, points out:
In the long run, children start to recognize words from the age of three, four, five, six or even seven, and there will be no difference in the future. When the child's development is not reached, all advanced education is a waste of time.
He drew this conclusion from long-term experiments.
In today's children's education, there is widespread anxiety and a wind of comparison. However, when parents compare their children's literacy, they overlook one point: literacy is not a special skill, and children will naturally recognize words when they grow up.
However, this does not mean that 4-6-year-old children cannot recognize words, but parents cannot use cramming to force children to recognize a large number of words.
The famous educator Montessori once proposed the concept of "child sensitivity". Different children's literacy sensitive periods are early and late, and generally appear at the age of 4-7 years.
When the child's sensitive period of literacy appears, and there is a desire to learn and recognize words, we can moderately lead the child to learn some words according to their interests.
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Yin Jianli told the literacy story of her daughter Yuanyuan in "A Good Mother Is Better than a Good Teacher".
She had never bought a literacy card for Yuanyuan, nor had she deliberately taught Yuanyuan to recognize words, but Yuanyuan had already reached the literacy and reading level of third-grade children when she first entered elementary school.
Why is Yin Jianli's daughter so powerful? The main reason is that she did the following two things:
First, she has been telling stories to children in the form of "reading".
When reading yuanyuan, she never converted the content of the story into spoken language, but read it to yuanyuan exactly according to the content of the book.
Yuanyuan first learned to retell the stories in the book, improved his language expression ability, and gradually became interested in words, connecting stories and words together, and the number of words he knew grew rapidly.
In this way, the child's literacy process will become easy and fun, and it will come naturally.
Second, she will teach her children some practical words in daily life.
When she was in the zoo, Yin Jianli would take Yuanyuan to read the animals on the signs together; in public, she would point to the "no smoking" sign and tell Yuanyuan that there were many people here and the air was not good, and this sign told everyone not to smoke...
Applying what you have learned is the most effective way to learn.
In the "intimate contact" with words again and again, Yuanyuan not only knew a lot of words piecemeal, but also understood the benefits of literacy, and was full of interest and enthusiasm for knowing new words.
Finally, Coke Mom wants to say that respecting the actual level of children is the most reliable way to educate.
Parents should not take how many words their children know as an educational goal, but let their children gain happiness and a sense of accomplishment in the process of literacy.
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