The culprit that erodes the child's concentration has been found

Today to tell you a thing, even I am shocked------ recently saw the national concentration insight report, contemporary people often focus on only 8 seconds.

In other words, maybe less than 10 numbers, we will slip a number. You know, the goldfish's concentration time is 9 seconds, and we are even 1 second less than the goldfish. My friends and I couldn't help but look forward to the data, in 2000, the national concentration level was 12 seconds, at this rate of calculation... Look at the next generation... Unbelievable...

What is eroding our concentration?

According to the data of the Fourth World Internet Conference, everyone looks at their mobile phone every 6.5 minutes, 150 times a day.

So many times?! Didn't expect it! In fact, if you think about it, this is not an exaggeration.

In the era of information explosion, people cannot do without the Internet for office, learning, and entertainment. Data show that the average person can produce up to 1.5GB of data information per day.

Open so many apps on your phone or computer every day, any one of them can cost you a few minutes. Not to mention that the new information comes with its own natural appeal, and just a few strokes of the finger on the screen can take half a day. Without strong willpower, you really can't escape those "algorithms".

Some people will also say that this is not necessarily a bad thing! The more things to see, the more natural the harvest is also more!

But is this really the case?

Effects of poor concentration

There have been many practical studies that have shown that concentration affects learning efficiency, leads to procrastination, affects academic performance, and even affects future work and personal development... For children, the harm is even greater!

Affect learning efficiency

This year's children are more "digital natives", who will use search engines, various software and other ways to learn. Although there are more ways to acquire knowledge and more information, behind the use of fragmented time is passive learning, which is fundamentally different from focused investment.

Information ≠ knowledge.

Before we have time to think deeply, we hurriedly open the next "knowledge point", perhaps because we "learn" so much "knowledge" every day, but in retrospect, we do not have much understanding, or even remember how much reason.

Over time, even the real study will only read the text, do not think about the meaning, and become "turn over the meeting, close the waste".

Easier procrastination

As data from the 'everyone looks at their phone every 6.5 minutes, when a child is doing homework or completing a task, they are always distracted and slipping away, and when this distraction becomes a habit, procrastination follows. 1 hour of homework and 3 hours to do it is not a dream!

Dragging and rubbing unconsciously, it is likely that there is a problem with concentration behind it.

Lack of social competitiveness

Some people have been tracking 2850 5-6-year-old children since 1985, and when they look at their income after they are 30 years old, they find that the most direct correlation with income is their concentration.

A Poll by Gunlop also showed that only 6 percent of professionals said they were "very engaged" in their work. Deep work is becoming increasingly a scarce ability, which means they have better economic prospects and development opportunities. On the contrary, the remaining 94% of people will lose their core competitiveness for a long time because of "not focusing" and "loving to procrastinate" and be eliminated by the rapid development of social waves.

It is said that "successful people are just more ordinary people with concentration", and concentration is the basis of all learning ability. "Bitter" adults with low concentration have eaten, and children cannot repeat the same mistakes! Are there any good ways to cultivate and improve your child's focus?

How to cultivate concentration scientifically?

More and more parents and children have the problem of concentration, in fact, the development of concentration is traceable. How to make children more focused, the core is "please don't bother me".

Studies have shown that concentration develops gradually as children age and the prefrontal lobes of the brain mature. Usually:

3 years: 3-5 minutes

5-10 years: 10-20 minutes

10-12 years: 25-30 minutes

Adults: 30 minutes or more

If you want to cultivate your child's concentration, you may wish to try to start from the following aspects:

01 Delay is met

There is a famous marshmallow experiment in which children can't resist eating the marshmallow in front of them, and after a few minutes they can get an extra piece. But in fact, many children can't help it, especially children under the age of 3. A small number of children who can endure to the end will have better performance when they grow up.

Through this experiment, many people believe that children's ability to delay gratification is directly linked to later achievements. However, in real life, parents also need to correctly use "delayed gratification" according to the actual situation in order to truly enhance their children's concentration.

02 Increase the internal drive

If you look closely, your child will show extraordinary concentration on things that interest you. If we completely disregard the child's own interests to cultivate their concentration and internal drive, it will not be effective. It can be said that interest directly determines the time, quality and depth of our focus to some extent.

03 Do not disturb and help children enter the flow experience

Flow is considered an extreme experience, and when you enter a state of high engagement, high achievement, attention is highly focused. Total commitment will give you more fulfillment, and this positive feedback will also attract you to invest again. That's why we often see artists and writers who can work and study without sleeping.

The law of flow also applies to children. If we can make our children enjoy learning instead of enduring it, we can slowly guide them to pursue the pleasant experience they get from learning.

How do you help them get this experience?

Provide a job that they are interested in and capable of doing, set clear goals, guide children to concentrate on the task, and give them immediate feedback, when necessary, appropriate support to engage them deeply and without far-fetched action. This fun-filled experience makes people feel free to control their actions and thus be more focused.

Try not to disturb your child. When they are doing something very interesting, such as a puzzle puzzle is happy, the parents let him drink water for a while, tell him to eat fruit for a while, and then say don't play, it's time to sleep.

Children's concentration does not exist independently, it is based on a combination of factors such as children's strong internal drive, challenging tasks, positive achievements, and timely feedback. When you do this, I believe you will see a significant improvement in your child's concentration. In fact, children in the face of the Internet, AI, digital wave era, the challenge is very large, if you hope that children can focus, self-drive, self-confidence, not lost in the torrent of information, to give children in-depth companionship and interaction, education used in "ideas", is the answer.