Some time ago, the kindergarten where daughter Wenwen was located held a storytelling competition, and more than 30 children participated. 5-year-old daughter Wenwen won the championship of the story contest and won the praise of teachers, classmates and parents.
After the game, the mother sitting next to me envied: I really envy your family's literature, my son can't do it, don't say tell stories, let him go on stage, don't dare;
I was busy comforting, no hurry, the child is still young, slowly just fine!
The mother continued: Don't comfort me, I am really anxious now that he will not be able to communicate well with others in the future, and now everything he does needs to communicate, the eloquence is not good, it is going to suffer a big loss.
After returning home, I asked my daughter, only to learn that his children are particularly taciturn, the teacher asked three sentences before replying, the meaning of the expression is not clear, the children do not like to play with him.
In the evening, the teacher praised her daughter's eloquence and knowledge in the class group, congratulated her on winning the story contest, and encouraged her to run for the small host of the June 1st event.
In addition to congratulating, other parents also asked me how I cultivated my daughter's eloquence. Where do I take the course? Let Wen Wen Dad pass on the experience.
Seriously, Wen Wen's father did not specifically cultivate his daughter's eloquence, let alone attended a training class, and some insisted on reading bedtime stories with her every night from childhood to adulthood.
At the invitation of the family door, Wen Wen's father sorted out the experience of reading stories with his daughter and shared the following:
01, why insist on reading stories to children
Since the birth of his daughter, Wen Wen Dad has read a lot of parenting books and knows that 0-3 years old is the golden age of children's brain development. Children before the age of 3 can hardly see the difference, but after the age of 3, the difference is obvious, but at this time the brain development has been completed by 80%.
However, in children at this age, cognitive ability is not strong, it is difficult to rely on learning to improve the ability in all aspects, but a certain language stimulation is conducive to the development of the child's brain. Therefore, Wen Wen's father insisted on reading stories to his children every night.
In the world of parenting, there is a view that a child's IQ is determined by a nanny! If a nanny is very good at taking care of the child and can guide the child to speak frequently, the child's IQ will be high. On the contrary, if a mother who has graduated with a doctorate has been busy with work and has very little communication with her child, then the child's learning is most likely not good.
American sociologists once did such a survey, children of high-income families know 30 million more words before the age of 4 than children of low-income families.
There is also a language gap theory in psychology: a gap in a child's vocabulary at the age of 4 can lead to a gap in adulthood.
Why is there such a big gap?
Psychologists analyzed the children of these high-income families and found that 66% of parents insist on telling bedtime stories to their children every day, which is twice that of ordinary families.
In other words, children listen to bedtime stories, forming a vocabulary accumulation, for children in early childhood, language ability is a key factor in early intellectual development.
Therefore, Wen Wen Dad here advises parents of 0-6-year-old children to insist on reading bedtime stories to their children every night.
02. What are the benefits of telling children bedtime stories?
Generally speaking, the time before bedtime, the child is generally about 20 minutes, is the quietest, the concentration is higher than during the day, and the understanding and memory of the story are also stronger.
I don't know if you have found that every time you look at something before going to bed, you will remember it more clearly, this is not an illusion, but a scientific basis. Professor Nicholas Dimay shows that:
Therefore, making full use of the 20 minutes before bedtime is the key to making children smarter and better.
The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that children under the age of 6 who often listen to their parents tell bedtime stories will directly affect their children's academic performance after kindergarten and their academic performance after school.
The reason is that 0-6 years old is the key period of children's language development, children listen to stories, not only can learn the correct pronunciation, master a certain vocabulary, learn to group words, the law of sentence construction, but also transform the text into some images to understand, invisibly promote the development of the brain, the more the brain is used, the more intelligent the child.
In addition, telling children bedtime stories can also make children who have a happy day quickly quiet and devote themselves to the story, which is more conducive to cultivating children's drowsiness and entering sleep faster. Very suitable for children who have difficulty falling asleep.
03, choose a bedtime story for your child, you have to pay attention to two points
Searching the Internet for bedtime stories will come up with hundreds of bedtime storybooks, when not all storybooks are suitable for children. When choosing a storybook for your child, you have to pay attention to two points:
(1) Choose stories with positive values, such as some bloody, violent, and value-oriented stories, do not choose.
(2) The selected story should be enlightening to the child and can shape the child's intrinsic value, such as being able to help the child's personality, habits, emotional management, and the cultivation of reverse quotient, from physiology to psychology to people and development.
Here, Wen Wen Dad recommended a set of "365 Night Bedtime Stories" to everyone, and her daughter liked it very much, and it is still one of the must-read story books every night.
The book contains 365 stories, each of which is conflicting and dramatic, helping to stimulate children's imagination.
Each story is accompanied by a beautiful illustration that complements the content of the story and depicts a beautiful and regular story. Let the children not only see the strong fantasy color, but also feel the mysterious fairy tale charm.
This set of 12 storybooks is a phonetic book for children aged 3-6 years. The full set is divided into 4 themes, including personality and habit formation, emotional management, and anti-business education, which is very suitable for parent-child reading.
Many parents complain that their children's concentration is not enough, they often "have no ears" in class, they are slow to respond to learning new knowledge, their comprehension is poor, and their language organization is poor... The reason is that their vocabulary and the logic of their language thinking are insufficient.
Listening to stories can help children effectively improve the situation, and the meaning of the words and sentences that appear in the story is often closely related to the context of the story. While understanding the content of the story, children can easily understand vocabulary and sentences.
How good are children who listen to stories a lot?
In 2002, among the 400,000 American college entrance exam students, Christopher scored a perfect score, and the secret was that his parents read aloud for him for 30 minutes a day. It can be seen that the more books parents read for their children, the stronger the child's understanding and the higher the IQ!
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