Exploration is the nature of the baby, and infancy is one of the most exploratory periods in a person's life. Any foreign knowledge must be recognized and accepted by infants only through their own research and exploration, with their own observations and experiences. Protecting the baby's spirit of exploration and providing psychological and environmental support for the baby's exploration behavior are important contents of successful early education.
Let me give you an example
What is Mom holding in her hand? As soon as Mom's hand moved, it shook its head, and two small hammers made a nice sound. "Wow, that's amazing! Whoops! Handsome! How did Mom get it? I'll try it too: "Where does this thing ring?" How can I not see it? It's weird... If you don't shake it, try it..."
The baby's learning process of the rattle is the process of actively exploring the surrounding world, and the spirit of exploration is the driving force for the baby to understand the world and active learning, including the baby's curiosity and curiosity, which is very important for the baby's intellectual development. Moreover, the level of potential development of the baby in all aspects depends on the baby's vivid and repeated exploration, so the spirit of exploration will affect the baby's life.
How should parents guide their babies to explore?
1. Pay attention to the baby's exploration process rather than the result
Now parents attach great importance to the baby's early education, but many parents one-sidedly understand early education as how much knowledge the baby has obtained, without paying attention to the baby's innate research enthusiasm and ability, treating the baby as a container for receiving knowledge, unilaterally emphasizing that the baby should listen well and remember carefully, and does not care about the baby's exploration spirit and exploration behavior, and even obstructs it. This is very wrong. In fact, protecting your baby's spirit of exploration is more important than teaching your baby specific knowledge.
2, respect for the baby's play is the cognitive way of learning
Tearing paper, throwing things, playing with bubbles... Parents who do not understand the baby's psychology will always think that the baby is deliberately mischievous and do not understand that the baby is exploring. In the eyes of adults, those naughty behaviors are actually a way for babies to learn. Albert Einstein once said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, and strictly speaking, imagination is a real factor in scientific research." "Parents should respect their baby's whimsy and respect their baby's unique way of playing.
3. Provide more varied game materials for babies
Babies like to play with water, sand, and mud, because they are varied, have no fixed shape, and are most in line with the baby's curiosity and desire to explore. Mothers who love cleanliness do not let the baby play because they are afraid of these materials getting dirty, let the baby play freely under the premise of ensuring hygiene, and through this play the baby will get unexpected happiness and knowledge.
4. Provide psychological support for the baby's exploratory behavior
Do not require the baby to think according to the parents' way of thinking; give the baby enough time to explore independently and do not interrupt him; do not rush to answer the baby's questions and let him think about it for a while; provide sufficient materials for the baby to solve the problem.
5. Encourage your baby to gain direct experience through hands-on experience
The baby's life is a long way, and the way to protect and escape is certainly not advisable. The best way to protect yourself is to face danger. Not only that, but abilities are built on the accumulation of experience, so the sooner your baby's "hands-on experience" starts, the better. The earlier the experience, the more experience, the stronger the ability to deal with external things, so that when the baby grows up, the parents can rest assured that he can go to the world.
6. Develop your baby's curiosity and curiosity
The outside world is very magical for the baby, he will be driven by curiosity to observe, grope, try, compare, explore, and enjoy himself. Therefore, if your baby is to be smart and imaginative and creative, it is necessary to provide an environment for your baby to explore and understand the world, so as to stimulate his curiosity and let him use his brain, hands, and try more. Babies who put their ideas into action can improve their abilities.
7. Encourage your baby to make exploration summaries
Every time you explore something, it's what your baby is most interested in at the time, and every time you explore, you'll get something — sometimes your baby will ignore this, so parents should encourage him to summarize his exploration.
In the exploration of the baby, it is inevitable that it will encounter some difficulties, so how to help the baby overcome the difficulties, and what should be done next time when the same difficulties are encountered? This is what parents should remind him to summarize.
In the process of summarizing, he will go back and carefully experience the details of the exploration, and then discover his potential and learn to appreciate himself. The baby who can summarize is the baby who is constantly improving in the exploration, and the baby who can appreciate himself will have a strong character that can overcome difficulties.