Wang Yuhui Career Seven Dan: Can Playing Go really improve children's concentration?

In the middle of March, I went to Shanghai to have a meeting with some parents who are new to Go, and at the meeting, I asked the parents a question - what is the starting point for your children to learn Go, and the answers collected are mainly the following.

01 Hope to cultivate and improve children's concentration.

02 Lay the foundation for children to develop elegant hobbies from an early age.

03 Recognize the puzzle function of Go.

04 Hope to cultivate children's sense of frustration.

(In order of parental attention)

It can be seen that in the minds of the vast majority of parents, Go can cultivate and improve their children's concentration, which is already a thing that everyone recognizes. Cultivating and improving their concentration by letting children play Go is also the expectation and demand of parents in the first place.

Can playing Go really cultivate children's concentration? Do children who learn Go really have better concentration than other children? If this is the case, what is the logic behind it? These questions also triggered my thinking.

Fortunately, just last week, I saw the sharing of li rui, a well-known teacher of good future group, on improving attention, and here, mr. Li Rui put forward an argument that I very much agree with, that is, the reason why children focus on a certain thing is because they have a certain sense of purpose for this matter. The reason why playing Go can make children focus is because it provides children with a very good goal - to defeat opponents. This sense of purpose is the best carrier to guide children to maintain their concentration during the game.

After a long time of cultivation in Go, its concentration will naturally improve, and this ability can definitely be transferred to the field of learning.

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In Mr. Li Rui's curriculum, there are many concepts related to concentration, as well as some ways to improve concentration, because Mr. Li Rui's own children are also learning Go, so when he mentions the relationship between Go and concentration, he says it very thoroughly.

After listening to Teacher Li Rui's point of view, and then looking back at my family An An, I found that it is really very appropriate, when An An especially wants to win a game of chess, she does not need adults to remind her to complete the game very seriously, the process is extremely serious, and if she feels that this game does not matter, or does not want to win at all, the whole process of the game is like sitting on a chair full of nails, which can make me angry to death.

From this, we can basically draw a conclusion that learning Go can be a good way to cultivate and improve children's concentration, but there is a premise, that is, parents must build a sense of purpose with their children. Otherwise, between learning Go and improving your concentration, you probably won't be able to write the "=" sign you're expecting.

In recent years, I have been clearly opposed to the so-called "happy Go" and "growing Go" and other teaching methods. In my opinion, those teaching institutions that deliberately avoid the victory or defeat of Go, or even deliberately mislead parents that the victory or defeat is not important, are not realLy Weiqi education, at least they do not understand the real value of Go, especially the value that the sense of purpose brings to children.

Learning Go is like running a marathon, if there is no sense of purpose from the beginning, then in the process of running, you will either lose your way, or run and run, and you will not be able to persevere.

There is no doubt that children learn To go need to have a goal, and many parents may ignore that the establishment of goal awareness, in fact, should first start from the parents themselves, as long as parents have a goal awareness, the child's sense of purpose will naturally be established.

I know a lot of chess children's parents, the learning of Go is completely regarded as a matter between children and teachers, usually in addition to pick-up and drop-off, at home online classes, but also do not pay attention to the class situation, so after a period of time, the results can be imagined.

Parents' sense of purpose should be built around three key words - companionship, supervision, and encouragement.

If you can play chess with him at home and learn the initial lessons with your child, you can let your child feel more about the "fun" side of Go and help your child establish a solid interest.

When the child's interest in Go has been relatively determined, at this time, parents should play a good role as a supervisor and supervise the child to complete the learning process of "one learning, two exercises and three problems", only in this way can we help the child exercise strong strength and establish the confidence to crush the opponent in the future.

And when the child has begun to experience failure and setbacks, as a good parent, you need to care in time, encourage the TA to have the spirit of victory and defeat, tell him the relationship between failure and success, and accompany him to spend this heaven-given opportunity.

If you can accompany, supervise, and encourage these six words, then I believe that learning Go can give children more than just the benefit of concentration.

There may also be some parents who will ask such a question, I have set a goal for my child, if he does not achieve it, will it be too cruel to the child? Is the child acceptable?

My view on such a question is that, first of all, if you don't establish a goal because you are worried that your child will not be able to achieve it, it is a kind of choking mistake. In addition, if parents set the goal, it is indeed wrong.

After establishing the goal, you should also decompose the goal with the child, and do a good job of guiding the values of winning and losing, for example, you can communicate with the child, the most recent month, the last six months, the last two years of short-term, medium-term, long-term goals to establish, and give corresponding incentives. For example, if you are worried that your child will be afraid of failure, you need to manage your child's expectations in advance, and you must often tell your child about the process of pursuing victory and defeat, which is actually more important than the final result.

Such words say more to children, and unconsciously, the parents' own expectation management is in place.

Finally, we also want to pass on the values of love chess to everyone, we always believe that the goal of upgrading the promotion section and even each game is important, but it is not the purpose of learning Go. The purpose of learning Go is to help children become a person with all-round qualities through Go, and then achieve a better life for children.

Today we are talking about the topic of goals, do you have a goal for children to learn Go? If so, what are your goals? We look forward to hearing from you, let's discuss it together.

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Wang Yuhui

Friday, March 29, 2019