This book is a clever combination of the latest discoveries in the children's mind and the incendiary views of the scientists in action of children.
Few books on human development are so vivid and suitable for scholars and parents alike to understand and read.
How do young children learn about the world, and what is the connection between children in the cradle and scientists?
I believe that after reading this book, readers will have a new understanding that children's mental development potential is beyond our previous imagination. And that's an important part of cognitive science.
This book demonstrates the commonalities between scientists and young children in some aspects (exploring the world), and the writing is fluent, and I believe that parents and child educators who love their children will be interested and draw many useful inspirations from it.
Babies may have the same emotions and motivations as scientists
Babies may feel the same way as scientists.
Babies are not only able to explore and interpret their world, but seem to be driven to do so, even in the midst of life and physical adventures and maternal hysteria.
Like other human motivations, the motivation for this explanation arises from specific emotions:
When you can't understand, you're disappointed, and when you can, you're happy.
We can also see these expressions on the faces of babies and toddlers. When we show babies a question of "object constancy" or "false beliefs," they pout, pout, frown.
When they answer correctly, a bright, even smug smile is produced.
Adults who are busy working for the new 4F will also have the satisfaction of understanding the problem, the new 4F refers to increasing pay, defeating opponents, avoiding enemies you can't fight, and teasing indifferent people.
The pleasure that arises when reading general science books is a kind of resonant pleasure, that is, the joy of discovering how problems can be solved and how strange things can be explained.
In our spare time, we put ourselves in the middle of problems, from chess games to crossword puzzles, and have fun solving them. When we get the opportunity, we play like that.
While the motivations of professional scientists may stem in part from greed, ambition, anxiety, desire, and other adult motivations (which continue in every laboratory 4f), the motivation to explain also plays an important role.
Physicist Stephen concludes:
"The natural world seems to act on us like a teaching machine. When a scientist gains a new understanding of nature, he experiences an inner joy. These long-term experiences teach us how to judge which types of scientific theories bring joy to understanding nature. ”
Soviet scientists, expressing their joy during the operation of the Mars rover, said that they felt like they were back in childhood.
Our growth naturally contributes to children's growth and learning
Children grow up using others to make sense of the world, and the author describes some of the development of children at the age of 1 in chapter 2.
They can see things according to what others point to, know how to use objects by observing others using them, and learn how they should react to things by observing how others react to them.
In these unconscious learning processes, the words and deeds of the people around the child will become the source of the child's learning.
The way people around the child treat the child, the way they treat others, and the way they treat the world will be all taken by the child who can learn independently with a camera next to him.
These interactions in relationships will gradually form a variety of representations in the child's mind, through which they see the world, interpret the world, and choose behaviors.
In the intimate relationship between us and our children, various interactions are also shaping their worldview and values, and our worldview and values are passed on to them through words and deeds in the interaction.
And all this is subtle, and no one can fool the child who is in the process of learning at high speed.
If we want to help children grow and learn, our own development is extremely important.
We can't give our children what they don't have, and our own growth is extraordinarily helpful to our children's growth.
In a family full of complaints, children naturally learn to take responsibility for themselves, and in a family full of love, children naturally learn to understand the needs of others in love, even if they are not their own needs.
In a family that never reads, it is difficult for children to experience pleasure in reading because a lot of reading is forced, and in a family that encourages growth, it is difficult for children to go back and gain self-worth by belittling others......
Children are indeed a mirror of us, and some of the problems encountered by children are more or less our shadows.
If we want our children to grow, we have to grow up ourselves.
Taking it a step further, it would be even better if we could help others around our children grow together.
Moreover, because the path chosen by the child in the early stage may profoundly affect the path available in the later stage, although it is never too late for personal growth, it is more effective for the child to grow early.
High-quality parental companionship is key
A child is a child after all, and dependence on parents is indispensable.
And the parents of the children will inevitably be unable to accompany them all the time because of work or other things in life.
Therefore, high-quality companionship is the key to solving this problem.
If you can improve the quality of companionship in a limited time and accompany your child with 100% of your heart, then you will reap the effect of twice the result with half the effort.
Through this book, a scientific understanding of how children learn can reduce the interference of parents in the learning process of their children.
Each child has their own set of learning methods and habits, understand them from a deeper level, and let them learn better.
Children are the smartest, they know what they need to learn the most, and they know how to effectively choose the information they need.
It is best to help them do a good job of screening and checking information, keeping out inappropriate information, and letting them play freely for the rest.
We may not be able to control what our children become when they grow up, but we can have a huge impact on their lives.
As they grow, give them the positive influence they need, reduce the influence on their own judgment, and respect their every choice they make as an individual.
The hardest part of this process is those parents who are very controlling.
But in any case, there are fewer unnecessary distractions, watching them fall, you don't need to rush over at the first time, watch all this from afar, just go over and pick them up when necessary. In this way, it is the best.
Parents are important not because they can influence their child's personality as an adult, but because they have the most profound impact on their child's life when they are children.
Therefore, when a child is still a child, more positive influences and less negative and negative influences are particularly critical to a child's growth.
Write at the end
Montessori said that what children learn before the age of 3, adults need 36 years to complete.
Don't underestimate this small body, their exploration of the world is no different from the research of scientists, except that scientists' toys are more expensive.
Adults should be in awe of these cradle scientists.
Their research should also be like Gopnik's, with bold assumptions and careful verification.