Children with poor academic performance ≠ low IQ!
The famous psychologist Daniel Gorman said: "Focus is an easier factor for children to succeed than IQ. "Concentration is the basis for learning all knowledge, and children with good concentration will also have relatively high efficiency in doing things."
My colleague's children were only in the first grade, and they were often invited to the school office by the teacher to "drink tea" and "asked for help" from me when they came back. Colleagues said: "Children often slip away in class, and some of the usual quizes are always not ideal. "The colleague was very upset and asked the child all kinds of questions." Is it because you can't understand what the teacher is saying? "Are you not able to see clearly?" "Problems like this, the child said no, just default to the class wandering, like to think about the west.
Good concentration is a strong guarantee for children's future learning, but many children lack this ability. In fact, concentration is not innate, it needs to be cultivated the day after tomorrow.
In order to improve the child's learning and work efficiency, so that it forms good behavior habits, parents should do the following aspects.
Talk to your child about things without repetition or instigation
When talking to their children about things, some parents are always afraid that their children will not be able to hear or remember, so they repeatedly say and emphasize a matter.
In fact, this has become the "culprit" that reduces the child's attention. You know, what the child hates most is the nagging and repetition of the parents, at this time, the child will behave carelessly, because he knows that even if he does not listen carefully to what the parents say, he can still understand a general idea from their continuous repetition. Over time, children will develop the bad habit of listening to others without being serious and absent-minded, which is of course not conducive to the improvement of children's attention.
Therefore, when talking to the child, it is best to avoid repetition and instigation, and only say each thing once, so that the child understands that if he wants to hear the meaning of the parents, he has to concentrate, so as to grasp the focus of the parents' words.
Use small cards to give psychological cues to your child
Whether a child can listen carefully to the lecture during class is not entirely determined by the child himself, and it is also related to many interfering factors. For example, in the case of children's low mood, chaotic classroom discipline, and obscure teachers' lectures, children are most likely to desert their thoughts.
In the primary school stage, the child's self-control is relatively poor, we can prepare a few small cards written with the words "concentrate on listening to the lecture", "listen carefully", "do not be distracted" and so on, placed in the child's stationery box, textbook, desk and other places that are easy to be seen, so as to ensure that the child can carry out positive psychological cues in time and consciously transfer attention to the lecture.
Guide your child to take notes while listening to the lesson
Sometimes, when a child's eyes stay on the teacher's face during class, he thinks about things that have nothing to do with listening to the class. At this time, we can guide the child to take notes while listening to the lecture, and in this way force himself to listen carefully.
This method of listening and remembering can help children shift their attention to the content of the speaker, with the help of the eyes, ears and other organs, so that the cerebral cortex can effectively receive effective information from the auditory organs.
Play more concentration games
Training children's attention, some entertainment items and games can help children exercise their attention in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
For example, playing chess, playing puzzles, digital solitaire games, and table tennis matches are all things that require children to maintain a high degree of concentration to complete.
You can also play some concentration game books, and my daughter loves this set of Magical Concentration Game Books.
This set of books contains more than 400 different magical games that can cultivate children's concentration from the aspects of vision, logic, reasoning, numbers, etc.
A variety of games, coupled with funny themes, full of interesting scenes, the sense of substitution is very strong, very able to poke the child's interest points, page by page difficulty will also be advanced, very exploratory, do not have to worry about playing tired of playing in two days.
The game has different types such as walking mazes, finding differences, finding the same, connecting lines, arranging order, complementing pictures, moving positions, coloring, counting, drawing, etc.
Mazes, different, similarities, wiring – these games train attention and observation;
Order, counting – these can train logical thinking;
Complementing the map and moving the position - these can strengthen the sense of space and enhance the awareness of rules;
Coloring, painting – visual training to enhance the precision of the pen.
Thick 4 books, enough for children to play for a few months, 16 open big books, the picture is big enough and rich, full of colors, very visual impact.
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We can take appropriate and effective methods according to the child's personality characteristics, and train and cultivate the child's concentration in a planned and purposeful manner.