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How to develop children's concentration?
1. Start with yourself
If we usually have the habit of cultivating concentration and doing some concentration training, then this will play an exemplary role for children. For example: yoga practice, reading activities, meditation activities. Of course, it can also be exercised through interactive Q&A between two people: one person asks (any questions) and the other listens intently and answers.
Don't rush it at first, the best way is to let the child figure out the speed of learning on his own. If we insist on our children, it is likely to backfire, causing them stress and frustration. So it's a good idea to start with your own training, and if your child is interested in your activities, invite him to join in. After a while, you'll find that they're slowly catching up with you.
2. Start small
Once we have successfully attracted the attention of our children, we can gradually establish cooperative practice between the two of us. When exercising concentration at the beginning, you can choose a few minutes as a period of time, and in this adaptation stage, we must maintain a positive and supportive attitude to do a good job of mutual adjustment process for the child during the transition period.
For a child, maintaining 3 minutes of concentration is a reference point, and if he can reach this level of ability, we will increase the duration. Don't worry about the short time, there are many ways and activities to pull a long time.
3. Keep the content of the activity simple and clear
Staying focused is a whole new area of ability for your child, so try to keep the content of the activity as simple and clear as possible when your child is first introduced to this type of activity/training. Concentration is equal to self-awareness, which perceives our thoughts, emotions, physical perceptions, and the things in our surroundings.
We don't even need to use the term "concentration," it can be listening, feeling, observing. Perhaps the child can choose the form of activity for himself, give them the right to choose, and make their choice more meaningful.
4. Participation of the whole family
Turn mindfulness training into a family-wide activity with a theme that the whole family can participate in. In this way, you can turn this concentration exercise into a family routine, or your family lifestyle, rather than a training session specifically for your child.
A good example is dinner time, when everyone is sitting around the table, you can set up a communication session, tell people about the interesting things that happened during the day, and you can also ask each other questions. This family-involved atmosphere will make mindfulness exercises gradually simple and natural for children.
5. Manual activities
It's good to guide children to "pay attention to things", but at the same time we need to make the content/format of these activities more engaging, keep children motivated to participate, and improve their hypothetical abilities.
Manual activities are an ideal type of activity. We can stimulate children's concentration through a variety of different kinds and different forms of manual activities.
For example, in the weaving activities, we can invite children to feel the material of the cloth, observe the color of the cloth, and listen to the sound of needle and thread contact when weaving; painting activities can let children distinguish the materials and colors of different brushes, and even smell the smell of paper and paint.
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