Many parents are very confused, especially novice parents, who are confused and anxious about the questions of "how should I grasp every period of my baby's growth" and "whether missing the critical period of growth will affect the child's development".
Baby talks late, walks late, baby does not like to read picture books, baby will not count addition and subtraction... ... There is no harm without contrast, once you find that your baby is worse than the neighbor's family, you feel that you have not fulfilled your responsibilities and missed the critical period of training.
What is the sensitive period?
Children show a special interest in something or behavior at a certain time, which is a critical period for children to develop a certain skill, also known as the sensitive period.
What are the characteristics of the sensitive period? Through the development of sensitive periods, the child's cognitive level and intelligence level will take a qualitative leap. According to the developmental patterns of the sensitive period of the child, the child will strongly highlight the characteristic manifestations of the sensitive period through a series of behaviors.
What are the benefits of seizing sensitive periods? According to the sensitive period of natural development of children's physical development and the plasticity of acquired development, parents can judge the sensitive period of which stage the child is in by observing their words and deeds, and through the understanding and control of the sensitive period, they lose no time in adopting the best educational content and countermeasures, providing the required good environmental conditions, giving appropriate exercise and full life experience.
There are many key periods, learn to discern
Search on the Internet, you will find that the sensitive period is seriously "flooded", all kinds of disorganized, so that many parents look dizzy, what is this performance, simply let me open my eyes!
In the face of dozens of new terms + sensitive periods, many parents are helpless, the pace of parenting is disrupted, and the number of seats brings endless self-doubt. If the baby is a little abnormal, he will wonder if he has done something wrong and missed the critical period.
What are the critical periods that matter?
Some critical periods are common, in line with the development laws of the vast majority of healthy children, traceable, and have a decisive impact on future development, which deserve our attention.
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These critical periods are important for a child's development
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Visual sensitivity period: Vision is one of the first perceptions to appear, very sensitive and fragile, within 20 days of birth, if there is not enough light stimulation, the baby may be blind for life. In the 0-2 years old, the baby's visual adjustment ability is many, and if you maintain a posture for a long time, you may have strabismus, amblyopia and so on. Before the age of 3, it is the most precious correction period.
Hearing sensitive period: the baby has hearing before birth, 3 days after birth must be done hearing screening, within 6 months must have a clear understanding of the newborn's hearing, to prevent the emergence of hearing impairment. If hearing problems occur, compensating for them early is critical to future language development. For normal young children, the use of hearing sensitivity can stimulate the demand for speech in advance and help the baby improve their hearing ability, which will be of great help to the future opening of speech.
Space sensitive period, order sensitive period, concept sensitive period, etc., are all important stages to help children's cognitive development, seize this period, under the guidance of the situation, you can cultivate the baby's wisdom on the road, less detours.
In addition, paying attention to these critical periods can also observe some abnormal developmental characteristics early, which is a wake-up call to prevent early developmental disorders.
If you miss a critical period, can you make up for it?
To be precise, the reason why it is called a critical period is to show that these developmental characteristics are both precious and short-lived.
Irreparable
For example, after the age of 3, some amblyopia and strabismus correction are not easy. Because the plasticity of the optic nerve is reduced. After the age of 6, the sensitive period of language development is missed, some language development is delayed, and the rehabilitation intervention of deaf children is difficult. If the oral sensitivity period is not met, the baby will have the habit of biting the tip of the pen and biting the nails when he is older. Babies in the sensitive period of order are not guided, and it is easy to develop a stubborn and rebellious personality.
Reparable
However, some sensitive periods, if there is no sound development in the first stage, will continue to develop in the future under the inducement of the environment. Self-cognitive sensitivity occurs in children 3 to 6 years old, if the child lacks self-experience at this stage, under the stimulation of the later life environment, there is still a chance to improve their self-perception and become mature and independent.
Overall,
The development of children's sensitive period is a trapezoidal development, and some sensitive periods appear from birth, then enter a relatively stable stage of development, and gradually disappear or even disappear immediately in the later stages of sensitive periods.
Each sensitive period has a unique development focus, and the before and after alternate with each other's laws, mutual influence and promotion.
In addition, the sensitive period of children is elastic, and the sensitivity period is only a rough division by age, each child's characteristics are different, the time period of sensitive period is not fixed, and the phenomenon and intensity of the performance are not the same.
Is my child's sensitive period normal?
There are many features in each sensitive period, and they do not need to occur at the same time, that is, as long as one or several conditions are met between the features. Simply put, the performance of these sensitive periods is not necessarily all, but the characteristics that appear must meet a certain frequency.
1. Limiting factors
The diagnosis of children's sensitive period is limited by multiple characteristics such as age and sex, and parents should consider the limiting factors for the appearance and absence of these characteristics.
2. Gender differences in sensitive periods
The appearance time and behavior of children's sensitive periods are different from gender. Girls in general appear emotional sensitivity earlier than boys, and the performance of emotional sensitivity period is also different, most girls experience emotional sensitivity when the feelings become quite delicate, sensitive, fragile, especially attached to parents, usually for a little thing to cry and cry, especially insecure. On the contrary, boys are more mischievous, often like to oppose adults, and gain a sense of self-existence by causing panic in adults. No matter how it is expressed, the children's various behaviors are an experience of emotion.
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