Studies have found that dead reading does not improve intelligence, but on the contrary, it will make children lose an important ability

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Reading will improve intelligence and promote brain development, this cognition is the truth in the eyes of parents, from the child's unborn prenatal education, to a lifetime of learning and education, are inseparable from "reading". However, a new harvard professor study found that the best way for children's brain development is not to "read books."

Early childhood education is to make children more prominent, so "reading" has become a popular choice, even after the Harvard professor published the relevant research, there are still many parents do not believe that reading is not the only best way to improve intelligence.

All the way of life is pinned on school, reading, when the child is immersed in the game (not online game), it is very repulsive, unable to understand or even accept the child's meaningless play, but in fact, this is not the case, the level of intelligence and reading is not a positive correlation.

Relationship between intellectual development and vocabulary

The development of the times, from the parents of the volume to the children, parents hope that they can also use knowledge to obtain success, so that their children become "other people's children", a variety of tutoring classes and learning to develop intelligence, and obtain knowledge through books.

In the early stages of learning, we judge whether a child is smart, how his brain development and intelligence level are, mainly based on the vocabulary that the child has mastered.

But researchers have found that children's vocabulary acquisition is not through reading to stimulate brain development, but through daily communication, whether it is with friends, parents or society.

If parents can accompany for a long time and have more contact with the outside world, it is a good way to promote the development of the child's brain, so that the child's brain will be more active, and his thinking will be more agile and flexible.

The relationship between intellectual development and play

This kind of companionship and activity requires children to interact with the outside world, and through a more relaxed way, such as dialogue and conversation, and even games, children will improve their concentration when playing, and the brain nerves will be in a more active state, forming cognition through the externally depicted world, and producing their own worldview and outlook on life.

Through the game to achieve the way to understand the world, the game mentioned here is not a video online game, but a way of communication with the outside world to achieve a certain purpose with a relatively relaxed game.

Children who play often will use wisdom, before the age of 6 is the best period of intellectual development, if parents can give their children enough companionship, I believe that the child's intelligence can be developed.

So if you want to improve your child's intelligence without the method of "reading", what method should you use?

1. Talk

The child's cognition with the outside world and his feelings about the world are realized through conversation, and in the conversation, the child's vocabulary can be improved, so that the child can get a certain language accumulation and improve his performance ability, which is incomparable to the special language class.

If you want to make your child smart, iq become higher, accompany your child to talk, communicate, and not bind your child's nature with your own adult vision, and this method also has a certain scientific basis.

2. Confidence

Once MIT also made a certain study on the IQ problem of children, which found a very cruel fact, the rich children's IQ index is about 120, while the poor child's index is only 79, the results of this study are not to verify whether intelligence has a lot to do with the ability to money.

Rather, the children of rich families will have relatively more self-confidence, and can express themselves better, receive a good education, and have a relatively broad contact surface, so they will retain more vocabulary in their brains and train more open and active thinking.

These theoretical studies are based on a certain scientific basis, once the British magazine "Nature" for intelligence-related physiological factors found that children with higher IQ of their brain gray matter content is also relatively high, and the formation of the size of the gray matter is not dependent on simple reading to reflect, blind reading will let children get a certain wisdom, but more importantly, the level of events and ability, because now society is a society of communication and communication, and the size of the child's gray matter and volume, It is actually linked to communication and thinking skills.

This part of the organization is responsible for memory and language, and is responsible for our thinking ability and thinking ability, and in the use of language can control language.

And the short-term response of oral language will shorten the child's reaction time, thereby training the child's reaction ability, and be good at using language to express their feelings, say their true thoughts, and use skills to communicate at the same time, but also to improve their IQ and emotional intelligence.

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Author | Tommy

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参考资料：Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(2), 192-205