Harvard study: Before the age of 3 is the "golden period" of children's brain development, it is very short, parents should not miss it

We generally believe that IQ is due to genetics. Children who are not smart by nature will not be able to turn the tables in the later stage. Is that really the case?

American psychologists have placed babies born on the same day in two different rooms. One wall is white and quiet, while the other is covered with patterns, soft music is playing all the time, and the baby can see the doctors and nurses at work through a huge glass window.

A few months later, it was found that the babies in the first room were three months less mentally retarded than the other group. The baby's cognitive ability, thinking ability, and memory ability in the second room showed an overwhelming victory.

It can be seen that IQ can be completely changed the day after tomorrow.

Professor Richard, a child behaviorist at Harvard University, pointed out that when the baby was born, the brain weight was only 390 grams, and with the development and growth of the child, the brain neural network developed rapidly, and 700 neurons could be established every second, and the brain weight could reach 1000 grams at about 3 years old, and the brain development completion rate basically reached 85%.

In other words, if the brain can become smarter before the age of 3, if parents can give the brain sufficient guidance stimulation, the child will be smarter

It is no wonder that the World Health Organization also calls the first 1,000 days of life as the "window of opportunity" for children's growth and development

Eat a nutritious diet

Children under the age of 3 can be said to be one day at a time, and they grow very rapidly, so children at this stage have very high nutritional requirements.

Make sure your child's diet includes a variety of essential nutrients, such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Your child's diet should include meat, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and dairy products.

Excessive sugar and salt intake is not good for your child's health. Giving your child too much sugar and salt should be avoided to prevent tooth decay, high blood pressure and other health problems.

Particular attention should be paid to milk intake. It is rich in protein, calcium, vitamin D and other important nutrients, which play an important role in children's growth and development.

Sports nutrition

0-3 year old babies have poor physical coordination, so many parents will ignore the child's motor development at this stage. Brain scientist Professor Hong Lan believes that exercise stimulates the body to secrete a variety of positive substances and enhance intellectual development! Children's thinking ability, self-control, endurance, competitiveness, and cooperation will also improve.

Parents should design suitable sports for children according to their children's different ages and different physical developments, such as children under 1 year old, mainly crawling, parent-assisted gymnastics, and as children grow up, they can increase walking, running, jumping, kicking, racketing and other sports.

The hand is the second brain of the child, and fine movements such as pinching, tearing, pasting, and pressing can stimulate the corresponding neural development in the brain, promote the triple coordination of the hand, eye, and brain, and make the child more and more intelligent. So, in addition to body movements, fine hand movements are also important!

Language nutrition

The University of Kansas in the United States followed 42 families for nine years, and finally found through intelligence tests that children who heard more vocabulary from their parents or caregivers before the age of 3 had higher IQs and better grades.

Brain science research has shown that language stimulation is an essential factor in promoting the growth and development of brain cells. Parents who talk to their children a lot can let their children hear at least 600 words per hour, assuming that they interact with their children for 4 hours a day, and their children can get 6.5 million brain stimulation from language in 3 years, and their children's brains will naturally be more active and smarter.

Parents should create a rich language environment for their children, such as bathing their babies and changing diapers, parents can depict their own actions, so that children can match language and behavior, and improve children's comprehension and comprehension.

Secondly, we should pay attention to parent-child reading, rich vocabulary in books, complete sentences and rigorous logic, children in the process of listening to stories, not only expand vocabulary, enrich children's language expression, but also more effectively stimulate children's brain development.

Survey data found that 75% of children who insist on listening to stories for a long time have maintained a strong interest in reading when they grow up. Especially when telling stories before bedtime, children's concentration will be stronger, they will be more engaged in listening to stories, and they will be more able to appreciate the beauty and fun of stories, thus stimulating children's interest in reading.

Seize the 1,000-day "window of opportunity" in the early part of a child's life and help the child build a smart brain, so that the baby can win at the starting line.