The dangers of advanced education in kindergarten do not really explode until children enter the second grade

Now that the economic conditions are better, children's education has become the focus of parents' attention, and many parents do not want their children to lose at the starting line, hoping that their children can learn more things in advance.

As a result, more and more children are learning pinyin, English, mathematics, poetry, recitation, painting, and dance when they are in kindergarten......

When they were three or four years old, they were forced to give up toys and games, and pick up textbooks that were difficult for them to understand.

But is this kind of advanced learning really beneficial?

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Learning ahead of time seems to have a first-mover advantage

By the second grade of elementary school, it got worse

The media once reported the story of a "child prodigy":

In order not to let her child lose at the starting line, a mother spent 120,000 yuan to enroll her son Jerry in 17 training courses in 5 years.

Jerry finished the second grade of elementary school when he was 5 years old, and he scored the top three in the country on the TOEFL Jr. test. It is understood that little Jerry can only rest for half a day every week, and he has to learn at 9 o'clock every day before going home.

Jerry had very good grades in the first grade, and he thought that the teacher was very simple, but he thought that the other students were stupid.

In the second grade, Jerry's grades began to decline, from the top student in the class to the average student, and gradually, he began to get bored with school, did not write homework, and was distracted in class.

The expert noted:

Advance learning will allow children to excel in grades as a result of learning these knowledge when they first enter the first grade. However, children are prone to lack the desire to explore and seek knowledge because they have already learned in class, and develop the bad habit of not paying attention to listening and speaking.

When I wait for the second grade, the child's "old book" is finished, and the desire to learn is not strong, and the study habits are not good, and the learning will become more and more difficult and worse.

It can be seen that allowing children to learn the content that can only be exposed to in primary school at an early stage in early childhood can not promote the physical and mental development of children, but will lead to the loss of the freshness of knowledge after entering primary school, and produce boredom in learning, which will directly affect children's lifelong interest in learning.

A systematic evaluation of children in a public preschool in Tennessee, USA (similar to kindergartens, nurseries, and nurseries) in China showed that:

Those who attended preschool entered kindergarten and showed stronger reading and study skills than their peers who did not.

But when they enter the first grade, their attitudes towards school deteriorate.

In the second grade of primary school, they perform even worse on tests of literacy, language and math skills.

"Children at such a young age are left in the middle of boring schoolwork, and they are more likely than teenagers to lose interest and enthusiasm for learning," the investigators told New York magazine. ”

Therefore, in early childhood, the cultivation of knowledge is not the first priority.

If children are asked to memorize some knowledge that they cannot understand, or even two or three-year-old children start to read pinyin and learn Chinese characters, it is obviously against the law of children's physical and mental development.

Children are hurriedly taught how to sit at their desks and write homework with pen and paper, but at such a young age, it is clear that this skill and concentration are lacking.

Childhood is a journey, not a race. Don't put the cart before the horse.

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Early childhood education should focus on what to teach children

• Cultivate good habits in your child

The cultivation of good behavior habits is very important for a person's life. The famous educator Chen Heqin once said, "Kindergartens should enable children to develop good habits."

The formation of good habits is the core task of early education.

A journalist interviewed a Nobel laureate and asked, "At which university did you learn what you think is the most important?" ”

The Nobel laureate calmly replied: "In kindergarten." ”

The reporter then asked, "What did you learn in kindergarten?" ”

The Nobel laureate said:

"Learn to give half of your stuff to your friends; Don't take what is not your own; Things should be put in order; Wash your hands before eating;

Be honest and don't lie; Apologize for disturbing others; If you do something wrong, you have to correct it; Nature is beautiful, observe it carefully.

I've always done what my kindergarten teacher told me. ”

In early childhood, efforts should be made to let children develop good living habits and study habits.

Living habits include daily work and rest habits, living hygiene habits, civilized and polite habits, and habits of abiding by rules, etc., and study habits include good reading habits, listening habits, etc.

Children develop the right habits of living and studying in the early years, and the later learning and living are very simple.

Many parents feel that their children are still young and ignore the cultivation of these good habits, thinking that these are small things and it is not too late for their children to ask for them when they grow up. But is that really the case?

The cultivation of habits needs to be cultivated from an early age, once the formation period of golden good habits is missed, so that children develop bad habits, it will be difficult to correct them in the future.

In teaching, we often see children who have already entered junior high school or are still lost;

I can't clean up my study utensils, my desktop is messy, I can't find my learning items in class, I am absent-minded when I listen to lectures, and I often wander my mind......

Repeated education, but with little effect.

As the saying goes: one year to develop habits, ten years to change habits. If you don't develop good habits from an early age, it will be difficult to correct them when you grow up, and these bad habits will even accompany your child for the rest of your life.

• Develop children's basic survival skills

Let's start with education in Germany.

Since the establishment of the Nobel Prize, nearly half of the Nobel Prizes have been won by Germans (including Germans who have immigrated to the United States, Canada and other countries).

In other words, 82 million Germans share half of the Nobel Prize, while the other 6 billion or so people worldwide receive only the remaining half.

These achievements are largely due to Germany's excellent early childhood education.

For a German child, they spend almost 4,000 hours in kindergarten. What did the German children learn during this time?

In Germany, children generally go to kindergarten at the age of 3 and last for 3 years.

For 3 years, they will visit the police station and learn how to call the police; Visit the fire police station to learn the common sense of extinguishing fires and avoiding fires;

Visit the post office to see how a letter arrives at the post office from home and is delivered again; Visit the city hall to get to know the mayor and see how he serves the citizens;

Go on the tram and learn to remember the route home; They visited the library and learned how to borrow and return books; Go to the supermarket with the teacher to buy things, learn to pay and choose goods;

During the cherry harvest season, the children go to pick cherry pumpkins with the teacher, and the children make pumpkin soup with the teacher......

Three years have passed, and the child has learned to fix toys by himself, manage his own time, date himself, make plans by himself, match clothes by himself, organize things by himself, and find the police by himself.

A 6-year-old child with a strong ability to live.

And we have a lot of children, just in this area is lacking, some have gone to middle school, they can't manage time, they are always grinding things, and they need constant urging from their parents. I always lose everything, and every time I go to school, I need my parents to help organize my schoolbag......

Many children, under the careful care of their parents, lack the basic ability to survive independently, which is worrying.

• Stimulate children's curiosity and cultivate children's interest in learning

Intellectual curiosity and self-motivation are an intrinsic desire for knowledge.

According to our words, it is "love to learn", and only when children "love to learn" and have an intrinsic and continuous desire to acquire rich knowledge and good grades can they "learn well" and continue to maintain good grades.

As parents, it is undoubtedly very beneficial to focus on stimulating children's intellectual curiosity and interest in learning in the early childhood stage of their children's growth.

If it is over-educated, it will make the child tired of school, which is not conducive to the child's growth.

Children have their own growth patterns, such as:

3 years old is the period of intuitive thinking, 5 years old to have image thinking, kindergarten children begin to appear logical thinking sprouts, 8-12 years old is the best period of memory.

Let the child who is full of imagination and creativity memorize Chinese characters and recite additions within a hundred, although he does not understand, he can do it, what is the consequence, the space of imagination is filled with solidified knowledge.

Let children learn in advance to avoid "losing at the starting line", but learning that violates the rules will not only bring the problem of fast and slow in the competition, but the problem of running in the wrong direction or running the other way.

Pre-school education is prohibited by the German Constitution. Through the intervention of the state, it is forbidden to develop children's intelligence too early, avoid turning children's brains into hard disks, and leave more room for imagination in children's brains. The "only task" for children before primary school is to grow up happily.

Mr. Chen Heqin once pointed out in the principle of "living education":

"Whatever a child can do on his own, he should be allowed to do it himself, and whatever he or she can think for himself, he should be allowed to think for himself, and for children to explore and discover for themselves.

The knowledge he seeks is the true knowledge, and the world he discovers is the real world. ”

Life is a long journey, education is slowly watered, in the process of children's growth, remember the words of Long Yingtai - children, you take your time.

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