After Bu Ni started reading picture books, she had to nibble on a book several times. Especially after entering the age of 3, a story is not pestering me to tell over and over again.
"Mom, tell me a story."
"What are you talking about?"
"Tell the story of Peter Rabbit."
Bu Yu loves to listen to stories, especially the story of Peter Rabbit, and listens to it more than 100 times without getting tired.
Many mom friends around me also said that to tell stories to children, you must have enough patience. Otherwise, when your child asks you to repeat a story, you will break down. Can't children change a fresh story to listen to? What's going on behind this annoyance?
Developmental Psychology points out that before the age of 6, the child's learning style is mainly repetitive.
Listening repeatedly, reading repeatedly, and repeatedly consolidating every detail in the mind is a unique way for children's brains to develop.
It is through the capture of knowledge points over and over again that children's intelligence will show "explosive" growth.
Among the children of the same age, Bu Yu is one with strong expression ability and reaction ability. At 7 or 8 months, she can pronounce simple syllables. At the age of 1 and a half, the vocabulary is around 50-60. 1 year and 8 months, fluent in sentences. Now 3 years old, the vocabulary has reached more than 1000.
When the children play, she is always the most active and logical one. At every party, people ask me how I raise my children.
In fact, children before the age of 3 really don't have to deliberately cultivate anything, just talk to her and tell stories every day.
One: Children listen to stories, listening to vocabulary and logic
When Bu Ni talks to her grandmother, she will pop up from time to time with a "because... So..." "Not only... And...", making Grandma laugh out loud: "Oh, you still make words and sentences?" ”
A story contains a large number of words and related words. When children listen to stories, what they first listen to is simple words, then complex words, then logic, and finally the story itself.
And the child wants to digest and absorb these contents, and it is certainly not enough to repeat them all. That's why he asks parents to speak over and over again, and he learns from them over and over again.
Just like the "Classic Story of Peter Rabbit" that Bu Yu loves to listen to, in addition to the animated stories that children love to hear, it also contains a large number of scenes, seasons, names, modifiers and related words. In the process of continuous listening, she slowly mastered these details and enriched her language expression ability and logical ability.
When communicating with others, she can express her thoughts logically and methodically.
Two: Children listen to stories and exercise concentration
What does the child rely on to grasp the details in the story?
It is a highly concentrated concentration of concentration!
When you use the storyline to attract your child, you are also exercising his concentration. When children listen attentively and use their hearts to capture those fresh details, they will also mobilize their senses and brains and develop their intelligence.
Three: When children listen to stories, they are actually listening to the "truth"
"Wash your hands quickly, your hands are dirty."
"Eat more, how can you not eat?"
"Go to bed, it's late."
If you keep urging the child like this, or reasoning with the child, there is a high probability that he will not listen.
But if you ask her, does bunny wash her hands before eating? What would an elf in a stomach that doesn't eat say? What do bacteria on teeth that don't brush their teeth do?
From the child's point of view, mobilize his cognition to look at things, the effect will be more effective with half the effort.
A large part of a child's cognition comes from his active learning, rather than passive notification. Therefore, when children listen to stories, they are actually listening to the truth and learning the good habits.
Many of Bu Ni's living habits are learned from "The Classic Story of Peter Rabbit", such as getting along with friends, packing up her own toys, not complaining, and so on. Children will substitute themselves into the story, and then imitate the characters in it to cultivate good living habits.
Four: Listening to stories can develop cognition
If the child's cognition is compared to a blank piece of paper, then his learning is to draw on the white paper. What he learned, what he drew on paper was what he drew.
For example, some parents love to look at mobile phones, and what children learn is also to pull mobile phones. And some parents love to read, and what the child learns is to sit next to and pick up a book to read.
Children are about 3 years old, which is a critical period for brain development. Because at this time, the neuronal cells in his brain are twice as large as we adults. By puberty, neuronal cells are pruned, leaving behind brain cells that children often use, and pruning out those brain cells that children don't use much.
This is a bit like "planting melons to get melons, planting beans to get beans".
So, what kind of person we want our child to be later depends largely on what seeds we plant when he is 3 years old.
Telling stories to children, this kind of intimate parent-child time, is to plant a seed of "love" for children. When a child listens to stories, he is increasing cognition, developing intelligence, and exercising concentration, and he plants a seed of "love to read" in his heart.
If your baby also likes to listen to stories, or you also want to tell stories to your children, then you can try the classic book "The Classic Story of Peter Rabbit", which Bu Ni loves.
Known as the "Bible of Children," this set of storybooks sows a seed of love and beauty for children.
● Cultivate children's reading habits
Each of these books is small, and children don't have to read it hard. There are great powers in the story, such as rabbits, squirrels, kittens and ducks, which are both kind and cute. They teach children the correct rules of behavior with actions.
More than 700 reproductions of original paintings, the details are exquisite and vivid, so that children are instantly fascinated and fall in love with reading.
● Exercise your child's memory
When you tell the story of Peter Rabbit over and over again, the child is actually repeating the details in the story. He exercises his thinking skills and memory by listening and memorizing repeatedly.
Therefore, when we tell stories, we must not feel annoyed, but should seize the opportunity to stimulate children's memory and develop intelligence.
● Exercise your child's expression skills
"The Classic Story of Peter Rabbit" has a total of 24 volumes, a large number of storylines, containing thousands of words and sentences, allowing children to accumulate a large amount of knowledge reserves.
When we tell stories to children, we can interact and ask the children appropriately "what happened" and "what happened".
The more he listens and speaks, the richer the words and phrases he masters and the stronger his ability to express himself.
"The Classic Story of Peter Rabbit" is full of pictures and texts, suitable for children aged 3-10 years old. The younger child, we can tell him, the older child, can let him read independently.
Before the primary school stage, the child will learn in a repetitive way, and it is also through this way that his intelligence can develop rapidly.
I'll attach the link, if you have a child aged 3-10, you might as well prepare a set for him
Does your child love to hear stories?
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