The importance of concentration for children is understood by many mothers.
Ta is like a door, able to block out the disturbing information, and then let the information we need into the brain, for observation, memory, understanding, reasoning and other thinking activities.
Many mothers feel sad when they see their children who "can't sit quietly for ten minutes" – if concentration is a "door", my child's "door" may be an automatic door... Open it yourself at any time...
Play with blocks for 5 minutes and throw them on the ground to play something else;
Say good to see the picture book, see a plane flying outside the window and run away;
How to do this will not affect the ability to learn in the future...
In fact, concentration is innate, when the external stimulus responds to the child's inner developmental interest, they will naturally focus, and all we have to do is to protect their concentration from being destroyed.
How can you protect your child's concentration? These points are important as children play with toys.
1. Pay attention to creating an environment conducive to focusing for children
Children are very sensitive to sensory stimuli, which is why we always see children who can't settle down, attracted to this for a while, and attracted to that for a while.
Mom and Dad need to pay attention to the quality and quantity of sensory stimulation in the environment.
Quantitatively, when the environment is filled with too many toys and stimuli, the child's concentration is easily destroyed.
On the one hand, children will unconsciously be attracted to these objects, and on the other hand, children with too many options will not be able to choose materials that truly cater to their developmental interests.
Qualitatively, children are provided with a variety of activities that meet their developmental needs, such as language, motor coordination, sensory refinement, and social behavior.
That is, the activity must satisfy the child's interests, he will focus - if the activities we provide are too single, the child's current interests may not be satisfied.
In the same activities with developmental needs, we also need to provide materials with different levels of difficulty, so that children can find activities that are suitable for their ability level.
For example, they are all playing with blocks. If we ask a 2-year-old to build a model with Lego concentration, that's beyond his level, and he's definitely acting "unfocused" – it's not the child's problem.
2. Cultivate your child's concentration through work cycles
Many families will put all the toys in the toy box, this is not a good way, this placement is very casual, can not help children to choose and effective classification, it is recommended that parents put toys on the toy cabinet, a group of groups, put in a fixed position.
In the process of playing with toys, we must help children develop good habits, that is, take them off from the toy cabinet, play on the work table or floor mat, and after playing well, they need to be sorted out and returned as they are.
In Montessori education, this is called the basic work cycle. At the beginning, we need to show the child how to clean up, take the child to do it together, slowly reduce the assistance, and let the child clean up by himself.
The basic work cycle can help the child focus on the current work, even if he is attracted to something at the time, he needs to restrain his impulses and pack up with reason before taking down a toy.
3. Observe the child's reaction to the toy and adjust it in time
Mom and Dad want to replace those toys that are not used by their children in time, and think about why their children stop playing with them: It's too simple? Or is it too hard? Or is the type of toy not suitable for the child's interest?
Through observation and thinking, finding toys that match your child's interests and are suitable for your child's challenge, you can enable your child to continuously extend their focus time.
The most important point is that we must be the protector of concentration, not the destroyer, the child in the process of playing, we do not point out nagging, interrupt the child, let the child have their own time and space to explore.