In September 2021, Jiangsu media reported that a local 5-year-old girl was injured while practicing dance lower back movements, and was eventually diagnosed with spinal cord injury and paraplegia, which aroused widespread concern and heated discussion among netizens.
This is by no means an isolated case.
We often see news like this:
The age at which the interest class starts is not appropriate, and it will indeed bring a lot of harm to the child, so when is the most appropriate time for the various interest classes to start?
In the background, I always receive a lot of messages from mothers, asking children about the age at which various interest classes start:
Today, combining the opinions of several experts, a "best age table for children's various interest classes" has been compiled to provide parents with a reference.
I hope that the mothers who have read today's article will stop blindly enrolling in classes, no longer let the hard money drift, and don't let their children be "injured" by the interest class.
Dance interest class
★ Representative courses: folk dance, street dance, Latin dance...
Dance can promote the growth and development of children's bodies, shape beautiful body shapes, enhance physical fitness, exercise limb coordination, enhance children's physical flexibility and coordination ability, and enhance temperament. But babies before the age of 4 are not suitable for learning to dance.
3-4 years old: can start to contact dance enlightenment, which is beneficial for cultivating the baby's rhythm and rhythm. But be sure to pay attention to the amplitude of exercise and the protection of children, do not rush.
5-7 years old: you can do some basic training in children's dance, but it is best not to rush down the waist and split the fork, which is easy to damage bones and muscles.
After the age of 10: Children can start learning to dance professionally. At this stage of the child, the skeleton is still in the growth and development period, but the skeleton is relatively complete, can withstand a certain intensity of dance training.
Vocal and instrumental music interest classes
★ Representative courses: piano, violin, guzheng, erhu, black pipe, vocal music...
A generation of literary heroes Hugo once said: "There are three keys to opening the treasure house of human wisdom: one is a number, one is a letter, and the other is a note."
Learn to sing
Singing can exercise a child's lung capacity and cultivate emotions. However, the baby who is too small has a young voice and weak breath, and it is not suitable to start vocal training too early.
4-6 years old: can start to contact singing. However, at this time, the child's delicate vocal cords are in a period of development, and a little carelessness will cause the child's vocal cords to be damaged. Children of this age are mainly interested in enjoying vocal music. Learning from an early age can cultivate children's musicality and improve the flexibility of brain responses.
7-9 years old: children can learn basic music theory knowledge, rhythm, pitch, staves, notation, as well as the understanding of songs, good musical expression, etc.
10-14 years old: it is a critical period for children's voice development, commonly known as the voice change period, and you can practice professional singing skills. However, during this period, the vocal cords are often hyperemia and edema, and if you do not pay attention, singing loudly with your voice will aggravate the fatigue of the vocal cords and lead to hypertrophy of the vocal cords. At this stage, it is important to protect the vocal cords and avoid letting children sing difficult adult songs.
Learn musical instruments
Cultivating musical preferences can start at the age of 0, but to really start learning an instrument, it is recommended to start after the age of 4 at the earliest.
Children only have certain cognitive abilities, can recognize staves, have feelings about music, can distinguish the pitch of music, timbre, etc., but also include the development of fine hand movements, better hand-eye coordination, finger strength and hand size, etc., which are the prerequisites for learning musical instruments, and the starting learning time of different instruments is also slightly different.
Piano, 4-6 years old: If the child is too young to learn the piano, it will not be able to meet this strength requirement, which will not only not be able to learn the piano well, but also damage the normal development of the child's fingers over time.
Guitar, 8-10 years old: If the child is too young and has tender skin, it will be easy to hurt the hand in the process of pressing the guitar string.
Drum kit, 6-8 years old: the drum kit learning is mainly around the movement combination relationship between the limbs, the drum kit has requirements for the height, weight, and small muscle groups of children, if the child is too young, it will be difficult to complete the action according to the standard.
Violin, 4-7 years old: The violin is a relatively difficult instrument to learn. From clamping the piano, holding the bow, holding the piano, pressing the finger to carrying the bow, etc., are all complex movements, and for children who are too young, the difficulty of learning is relatively high.
Cello, 6-8 years old: Cello and violin are stringed instruments, there are many similarities in learning, but the cello appearance is larger, generally at 6-8 years old, children enter primary school after starting to learn cello is better.
Flute, 8-12 years old: If a child is going to bend his head and neck to shorten the extension of his left arm, he or she is still too small to fit.
Erhu: 5-8 years old: Because erhu is more difficult to get started, it is more boring, it is necessary for children's fingers to have developed to a certain extent, with strong memory and imitation ability, in order to be able to learn erhu more efficiently.
Sachs: 9-12 years old: The saxophone is heavier, and if the child is too young, lifting the instrument will become a burden; in addition, the saxophone's finger position is larger, and the buttons of the smaller hand are also very difficult.
Of course, each child's degree of development is different, and the above is only a reference age. But parents should pay attention to: don't be busy with the exam as a task, learn piano with your children, give yourself a chance to be artistically educated, and enjoy the magical feelings that art brings you with your children!
Sports interest classes
★ Representative courses: swimming, basketball, badminton, table tennis, football, roller skating, taekwondo, skating...
Sports interest classes, in addition to allowing children to strengthen their health, can also exercise the child's will, but also improve the child's ability to resist stress. And the sports interest class basically belongs to the type of "one time to learn, lifelong benefit", such as swimming, jump rope, badminton, after learning the rest is to practice various skills.
Swimming, 5 years and older:
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states that "most children learn basic water movements by age 4; by age 5 or 6, most children can learn to swim forward in the water." ”
From the age of 0: you can play in the water. Parents hold the baby's arms or armpits with both hands to let the baby swing freely on the surface of the water.
Over 5 years old: The child's nerves and muscles have only developed to a certain extent, there is enough strength to learn swimming skills, and when the child's body is better developed, he can start to formally learn to swim.
Roller skating, 3 years old and above:
Roller skating requires a considerable sense of balance and coordination and control of the lower limbs, as well as agile limb response.
Generally speaking, the growth rate of height and weight of children aged 3-5 years old is still in the stage of steady growth, and the exercise function is further improved, and roller skating can be tried.
However, parents should pay attention to choosing safe and suitable roller skates for their children, as well as necessary protective equipment. And find a safe and flat place to practice.
Taekwondo, martial arts, 5 years old and above:
Children over 5 years old, the flexibility, explosiveness and comprehension ability of the body can adapt to the learning of this type of course, if the child is too young, the body and bone development is still in the young age group, can not meet the requirements of balance ability and muscle strength when practicing.
Martial arts and taekwondo are exercises for the child's body and willpower, but the child is too young to understand the mystery, and all suggestions are more suitable for the child after the age of 5.
Various balls, after the age of 6:
Badminton, because it needs to run, jump, pick up the ball, catch the ball, and the child needs to have a certain degree of physical flexibility and endurance, for the child to use the racket to catch the ball and serve the ball are a series of coordinated actions, it is difficult for children to do these, so it is recommended to start after the age of 6.
Table tennis, the smaller the ball, the more difficult to control, requires children to have good physical flexibility, and the amount of table tennis exercise is very large, basically running all over the field. This requires a high level of physical coordination and understanding and acceptance. Most athletes start practicing at the age of 6, and if you don't plan to be a professional athlete, it doesn't matter if you're a little late.
Football, this sport is easy to collide, and the chance of injury is very large, the sports load is also very large, too young children will not deftly dodge the impact of the ball and the collision of their peers. Letting children practice football too early is easy to get hurt on the one hand, and it is easy to make children feel tired on the other hand.
Tennis, the child's arm strength and wrist are very strong to play well, and the elbow joint and wrist joint strength and ligaments have certain requirements, too small children can not play the corresponding level, and regular tennis is relatively heavy, easy to hurt children, need children over 6 years old to avoid more flexibly.
Painting interest class
★ Representative courses: stick figures, graffiti, oil paintings, watercolors, drawings...
Painting is one of children's favorite activities, which has a good role in promoting children's imagination and creativity, intellectual improvement and hand-brain coordination development.
Doodling can begin at the age of 1: Children over the age of 1 already like "graffiti" and have an initial understanding of color.
3-year-old painting art enlightenment: Parents with conditions can enroll their children in some interest classes for painting art enlightenment.
Learn painting skills from 12 years old or older: After the age of 12, it is more appropriate to start receiving formal adult painting methods and technical training
The younger the baby, the more it is necessary to let the child play freely, such as finger palm painting, cotton swab painting, blow painting, watercolor painting or other graffiti painting, and try to avoid choosing stick figure painting, coloring painting, tracing painting, etc., because this will imprison the child's imagination and creativity.
Various chess interest classes
★ Representative courses: Go, backgammon, chess, chess...
Learning chess is recognized as a sport with intellectual development significance, which has many benefits for children's logical thinking, independent thinking ability and overall view, etc., and winning or losing in the process of learning chess is a rare frustration education for children, Go or chess is more playful for children, and children are easy to like and invest in.
Over 6 years old, children are more suitable for learning Go and chess interest classes. Each child's development progression is slightly different, and it can be adjusted appropriately according to the child's personality characteristics and hobbies.
Presentations, small host interest classes
Above 4 years old, you can start a presentation class or a moderator class:
The teaching concept of the American education speaker "Carnegie" proves that if you exercise your children's ability to speak, explain, debate, and host from an early age, you can enhance your child's self-confidence and improve your child's psychological quality.
Calligraphy class
After the age of 6, it is more appropriate to start a calligraphy class
Children who are too young have limited hand strength, fine movements, and comprehension, and it is difficult to master the correct pen holding posture. The child's posture of holding the pen is not mastered, and no matter how many skills are mastered, the words cannot be written well, and it will affect the development of the fingers over time.
These 3 kinds of interest classes, resolutely can not be attended!
1. Not really "kids like" interest classes, not on!
Too many friends around them are because they "like", so they sign up for their children:
I think that reporting Go can develop intelligence;
I think that if you report a swim, you can strengthen your body;
I think that a dance can cultivate temperament...
When choosing interest classes for children, mothers are often too subjective, mistaking "I think it is useful" and "I am all for the good of children" as the purpose of reporting for the class, and as a result, after several classes, the children are quickly tired, and we and the child have entered a state of forced learning and a desire to escape.
So, ask yourself if it's "I like it", "I think it", or if it's really "kids like it". It is not the class that the child likes, not on, because there is no support of interest, there is basically no possibility of long-term persistence.
2. Too expensive, beyond the family's ability to afford the interest class, not on!
Now the tuition fees of interest classes are becoming more and more expensive, and a hobby class, the tuition fee for a year is tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands.
Under such financial pressure, parents' expectations will also change. Children learn well, once they show that they don't like it and want to give up, it will be particularly difficult for parents to accept "spend so much money, say that if you don't learn, you won't learn, then what line!" ”
But the child's interest is the same every day, the interest is extensive, but it is difficult to adhere. Don't spend thousands of dollars and lose money to enroll your children in class. Choose an interest class that suits your family's ability to bear, and don't go on too expensive, so as not to give up on your children in the future, it will be a mother-child war.
3. The distance is too far for the interest class, not on!
Interest classes focus on likes, interest, if every time you go to class is as tired as rushing the field, and even the time to travel back and forth is more than the time of the last class, interest is also grinded into no interest. If you spend too much time and energy on the road, such an interest class will not be on it, and it is difficult to stick to it.
Before enrolling your child in class, do 2 things first!
Interest classes, interest classes, of course, the child to choose the child is interested in the line. But many mothers are also very scratching their heads for this, asking the child "like it", the child also says that he likes it, that he also says he likes it, and he can't always report it to the child. Therefore, mothers learn to discover their children's true interests in order to choose the right interest class.
1. More about audition, extensive contact
Children are naturally interested in all kinds of new things. So the mother can take the child to experience a variety of different interest classes, the general interest class can participate in the trial class for free, through the observation of the child's class participation, acceptance, and after going home to ask the child "like it or not", "why like it", "where do you like the class", etc., the child's feeling and like of the course to comprehensively judge, find the child's real interest points.
2. Don't report on the spot, calm down for a few days
A friend of mine took the child to audition for an English lesson, and after the 45-minute lesson, the child begged for a report and liked it. The course consultant is also bar bar bar la As a result, the head is hot and reported, go home and confidently ask the child to know, why does the child want to report it so much? Because I watched cartoons during class, the teacher also gave me candy...
Not to mention whether this class is really good, it is said that in such an atmosphere, parents and children are easy to "brainwash", so it is better to let the child and themselves calm down for a few days (it is best to exceed the 7-day cooling off period), if the child often mentions this interest class and wants to learn, it may indicate that the child really likes, and then consider signing up for the child is not late.
Finally, we have to say that what we gave earlier is only a rough age reference, not absolute, each child's development characteristics and the places they are good at are not the same, which also requires parents to make corresponding judgments according to the situation of their children, or that sentence, everything must respect the individual, everything should also be based on safety and health as the basic premise, and the rest are icing on the cake.