I often hear moms around me complaining: "My baby can't stick to a 40-minute lesson", "My baby is hot for every minute"...
Many parents may know that these are related to the baby's concentration, and they are very worried that the child's concentration is not enough, and they cannot concentrate on studying in the future. However, here I want to tell you that the parents of small month-old babies really do not need to worry too much about their children's concentration.
Because the frontal lobe of the brain that controls a child's concentration may not be fully mature until the age of 20. This is why children are not suitable for school until they are about 6 years old, because it is unlikely that your baby will sit for 45 minutes before that. According to the statistics of Bizburg University in the United States, there is basically such a relationship between children's concentration development and age:
Before the age of 1: particularly easy to be distracted and distracted, with an average concentration of less than 1 minute;
1-2 years old: able to show a single concentration, can continue to pay attention to a thing for a period of time, the average is 30 seconds -3 minutes, but the concentration transfer is difficult;
2-3 years old: able to play on their own for a long time, the average time is 2-10 minutes, able to accept instructions to do things;
3-4 years old: better control of attention, concentration time is on average 3-15 minutes, but concentration is easily disturbed;
After the age of 4: The focus is getting longer and longer, and the concentration can be consciously distributed.
By the school age, the difference in children's concentration development gradually widens, and usually girls have better concentration than boys. Many parents find that their children cannot listen carefully to the lessons and write homework after their children go to primary school, and they realize that there is a problem with concentration.
On the one hand, the thing of concentration has an innate impact, some babies are naturally easier to focus on than other babies, on the other hand, scientific methods can improve the baby's concentration level, and improper parenting methods can also make the baby's innate concentration easily destroyed.
Below, I will tell you about the cultivation of concentration, which is divided into two types: "negative" cultivation and "positive" cultivation.
Negative cultivation of concentration
We parents are always worried about not educating our children enough, like to buy them a lot of toys, give them a lot of fresh games, and keep letting the baby play this and try that, in fact, this practice is the destruction of the baby's concentration. That is, "negative" cultivation. Sometimes we should quietly be a bystander and give our children enough time to explore the things they are interested in.
In life, are you an "acute" parent? The baby picks up a toy and starts researching it, and you rush up and tell him that this is how the toy is played. The baby is concentrating on one thing, and the straw cup is handed to the mouth" Come, drink more water!" "Random interruptions and interventions are a great disruption to concentration.
There are indeed tons of interesting games on the small steps, but our early education courses still insist on only one lesson a week, and we encourage parents to follow the rhythm of the baby and not to disturb the baby when the baby is playing hard. Don't pursue the baby to play the same as the video, and don't interrupt the baby's new attempts to perform according to the script.
For babies whose concentration ability is in their infancy, "not teaching" is the best protection for concentration.
Active cultivation of concentration
Next, let's talk about active training, training children's concentration is some more scientific methods, small steps in the home early education course, there are many ways to cultivate children's concentration is very beneficial.
Today I want to give you a systematic and comprehensive talk about concentration, concentration can not be simply understood as concentration, it has four main dimensions: persistence, transferability, distribution and breadth!
What we usually call concentration, such as the baby's three-minute heat, lack of concentration, etc., is actually only persistence. We say that a child with poor concentration, playing with toys, reading, and going to class is easy to lose his mind, which is a persistent problem. Some babies do things grinding, or it may be that the persistence of concentration is relatively low. Very small babies can not focus for a long time, is a normal performance of brain development, we can play some more attractive to the baby's attention to train.
For babies from three months to 1 year old, you can play with handkerchiefs to hide cats. At this time, the baby is most interested in the face of the parents and the baby, and playing peek-a-boo games with the baby with a handkerchief will often make him giggle. Of course, the focus of this game is not to let the child try to find you, but to make your face appear and disappear repeatedly in front of the baby. Because the baby before the age of one does not understand that the mother's face is blocked, what is invisible in the baby's eyes is gone, such a small game your baby may look at it for a long time
Babies from 1 to 3 years old can play with straw beading. We all know that beading is one of the best toys to train concentration, in fact, you can also play this game by cutting a common object in life- straws into segments. You can find some slightly harder props, such as twist sticks to reduce the difficulty of beading, suitable for smaller babies to play.
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The Magic Cup is a game suitable for babies over one and a half years old, which is very challenging to observe and concentrate. Find three identical cups, buckle a ball or snack under one of the cups, and then swap the order of the cups at will for the baby to guess. Of course, the speed at which the cup moves should be adjusted according to the baby's age and ability. Babies need to stare intently at the cup and may not find it if they are a little inattentive.
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Next, let's talk about the transferability of concentration. In fact, it is very important to divert attention, such as when the game time is over and it is time to eat, and the child is still immersed in the game just now, which is the lack of ability to concentrate on transfer. Many babies enter the first rebellious period around the age of two, and there will be a state of playing to the head and how to take it away, which is also related to their inability to transfer concentration well. Parents can do some positive training, yes, the transfer of concentration and the dispersion of concentration are not the same concept, don't worry about it.
Animal doctor, suitable for babies over one and a half years old. In fact, role-playing games are great for exercising your child's attention transfer ability: the game starts with a quick jump out of the character and quickly jumps out of the role at the end. For example, in the classic doctor game, a sick animal comes to the hospital to see a doctor, and after seeing the doctor, the child's concentration will be transferred accordingly. Of course, in daily life, we can also let children say "goodbye" to each toy before moving on to the next game.
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Brave firefighters are suitable for babies over the age of two. Children over the age of two are constantly developing their ability to transfer concentration, and we can often give them some continuous instructions, such as the firefighter playing game, the baby needs to complete a series of tasks: receive the fire alarm, drive to the scene of the fire, use the "water gun" to extinguish the fire, and then rescue the trapped small animals. This process requires your baby's mind and attention to switch constantly.
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The distribution of concentration and the concentration of concentration are contradictory in a certain sense, children in addition to focusing on one thing, there will be a variety of activities at the same time, the need to distribute concentration freely, parents often do not want children to use two minds, it is best to do one thing without distraction, think that this is concentration, in fact, as the baby grows older, gradually begin to multi-threaded problems, such as while playing games, while paying attention to the road under the feet, to school after the child also learns to listen to lectures while taking notes.
Shepherd dog games are suitable for babies over the age of two. This is a game that requires the baby to think multi-threaded, mom and dad or more people in the family pretend to be lambs, let the baby be a sheepdog, the duty of the sheepdog is to run around the sheep while not letting the lamb sneak away. Babies need to pay attention to the performance of the "sheep" while running.
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The breadth of concentration refers to the range of being able to observe at the same time, such as entering an unfamiliar room and noticing several people in the room at the same time, that is, the ability to see the six ears and listen to the eight directions. In view of the fact that young babies are too susceptible to interference from outside information, the practice of attention span can be placed after the age of 3, here is a very classic training method recommended to everyone: Schult square.
Schulte training method is the most professional and most popular and simple training method in the world, which is widely used in the training of pilots and astronauts, and is also an effective training method for students to improve their attention, which will feel that concentration is obviously improved after maintaining this method for a period of time.
The Schult square is a square card with 25 squares of one centimeter square drawn, and a total of 25 Arabic numerals from 1 to 25 are filled in arbitrarily in the grid. During training, the participant is asked to point out its position with his finger in the order of 1-25, and at the same time recite the sound.
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