Early childhood is a critical period and sensitive period for cultivating imagination, if the education is successful, its effect will be immediate, excellent imagination will play a positive role in life; on the contrary, if you do not pay attention to the development of children's imagination, lack of correct encouragement and guidance, this innate valuable resource will degenerate with age.
When I was very young, I used to paint a painting that was not "understood" and was strictly required to be modified
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At that time, adults felt that the blue sky and white clouds should look like this
Later, I painted the green sun again
But the adults say that the sun should be like this
When I was young, I immediately felt it
Later, I was no longer willing to draw clouds and suns (tearful inner monologue: Actually, I painted dark clouds... black...... cloud...... yes...... Why can the sun only be yellow? Why? ）
If the space of imagination is forbidden, even if it is a skill?
In fact, for children, there is no absolute standard answer in this world, and what parents need to cultivate is a child with imagination and creativity!
Imagination and creation require freedom and space, patience and protection, and if parents restrict their children's imagination, they will hinder the development of children's imagination.
Let's feel it.
Would you praise your child for drawing such a picture?
Or can you "read" and encourage your child to create such a picture?
It is because there is no constrained thinking, whimsical creation, the American art master Tang Bailey's work "Blackboard" will set an auction price of 70.53 million US dollars (about 450 million yuan), yes, it is the 6 lines of continuous circle you just saw on the blackboard, like a child's graffiti work, breaking his personal auction record.
The author of the second painting is the famous and internationally renowned Picasso.
There is no conclusive text here, so please think freely for ten seconds
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Encourage your child to imagine
Experts say that what parents have to do is to instill standard answers as little as possible, don't blindly use adult thinking to imprison children, and give them more room for imagination. If you see a flower, it is better to let the child imagine for himself whether this is the house of the elves, whether there is a cute elf living in it, and the sun will sprinkle from it every day... Instead of seeing a flower, I can't help but introduce the child to this flower bud, this is the calyx.
It's like this dad did that
Parent-child dialogue
Dad asked, why does the little turtle climb so slowly?
The son replied that because the book on its back was packed with too many toys, it couldn't run fast.
Dad said, good answer.
Dad asked again, why do fish swim in the water?
The son replied that because the weather was too hot, it was bathing in it, and there were meatballs in the water, and it ate and ate and did not want to go.
Dad smiled, well, the son knows so much.
Dad asked again, why do frogs croak?
The son replied, because the horn in its throat was broken, and it croaked at the first sound.
Dad laughed, my son is so smart.
The mother next to her glanced at it and said aren't you a pit baby?
Dad said, let's not raise a child who only has standard answers, children have no independent opinions, like a machine with various standard answers. Even more regrettably, children who have no imagination and are only accustomed to using standard answers will have two adverse effects:
1. Lack of ability to create and innovate.
2, children become less like to think.
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How to protect your child's imagination
Enrich the appearance of stimulation around the child
The basis of imagination is appearance, and the formation of rich appearances is the basis for the development of imagination. Therefore, in the preschool stage, it is extremely important for children to receive rich and vivid stimuli as early as possible.
Parents can create a space for children to be as open and diverse as possible, whether it is visual, auditory, tactile, it is very easy to form relevant appearances in the child's brain. The reserve of these appearances is an indispensable and important condition not only for the reconstruction of imagination, but also for the formation of creative imagination.
For example, the simplest entry-level approach is that you can use a picture book to stimulate his imagination
Do you think there are pears left and right? Actually, the right side can be
Go on
What do you think the apple on the right can become? Maybe it could be
Wow, in the imaginary world, there are too many possibilities, but also reflects the real world, sometimes what you see is not necessarily what you get, parents need to let their children better open the wings of thinking to explore and understand the world.
Properly guide your child's fantasies
Children tend to think of imaginary things as reality, to take what they imagine as real, to describe what they desire as what they have already received, and to describe what they hope to happen as what has already happened. Children confuse the performance of imagination with reality, and are often severely reprimanded by adults, which is not a calm practice.
Parents should strive to enter their world, imagine with their children, let him understand that you also have an imaginary world, invite him into your world, and he will allow you to enter his world. But for some of the truths that must be known in the imaginary world (such as the characters who always have "can't die" in some animations), parents still need to give the right guidance and tell their children: Baby, that is not true.
About guiding the imagination, you can try —
Combine children's curiosity and cultivate the vividness of imagination
Children have a strong curiosity, which is the starting point for the development of imagination, in the daily life environment, there are resources available for exploration, any situation, may become a learning place that triggers children's curiosity and induces children to ask various questions. What parents need to do is first to eliminate the insecurity factors in the environment, and then they can provide a variety of practical materials and tools according to their children's interests, and let them explore.
Observe and play games in nature and guide children to imagine
Everything about nature can trigger a child's endless reverie. While the child observes nature, if the parent consciously guides the child to imagine, these things will become countless beautiful and novel fairy tales in the child's mind.
When the child plays in nature, encourage him to play some unconventional games, and perhaps the child will bury his favorite strange beans and fish skin peanuts in the soil to wait for "germination". But let's not laugh at him, just let him be bold and try.
Combine stories that your child likes and make adaptations or role-plays
Sometimes, a small story about yourself can also be very appealing. You can adapt or create a small story from your surroundings, use your imagination as much as you can, and even turn your child into a character in the story. Eventually, he will tell you his story, in which he himself is the protagonist. And the role play, in addition to expressing it in words, you can also "act" a sitcom together, which will be a very interesting way.
Focus on cultivating children's independence
It is necessary for children to complete what they can, deal with some problems within their ability, and form the ability to face society independently, which is necessary to cultivate children's imagination. Because independence and novelty are the two necessary conditions for creating imagination, if everything is done by parents, it is inevitable to develop a dependent personality, which constitutes inertia in thinking, and it is probably only a fantasy to let such a child imagine and create.
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