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A few days ago, my friend cried to me that my son's monthly exam was getting worse and worse, and he was interviewed by the class teacher, saying that the child was not attentive in class and his homework was procrastinating.

To this end, friends work overtime to give classes to children. Unexpectedly, when he was doing his homework, the children began to produce all kinds of moths, one for drinking water, one for going to the toilet and one for eating fruit. ...

No matter how hard he works, his son just can't concentrate on his studies, and the mid-term exam is coming soon. This can't go on!

Later, after I accompanied her to consult a local senior child psychologist, I learned that her son had attention problems.

In this regard, the expert said: "Once a child's concentration goes wrong, it will not only affect his study, but also directly affect his performance. Need planned training to improve. "

So what exactly is concentration? How to cultivate children's concentration?

Use this method well before the mid-term exam, and your child's score can go up again!

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From a psychological point of view, concentration, also known as attention, refers to a person's psychological state when he is absorbed in something or an activity.

Psychologist Daniel Gorman quoted a research conclusion in his book Concentration: Concentration has a greater impact on students' performance than IQ.

American psychologists have also done a long-term follow-up survey:

Fifty children with the same level of intelligence, with strong concentration, will mostly become outstanding talents in various fields when they grow up, while those with insufficient concentration will be unhappy in life and work after many years, and can only comfort themselves by believing that fate is God's arrangement.

I think of Dong Zhongshu, a literary scholar who didn't peek into the garden for three years and devoted himself to reading. Newton, a physicist, was addicted to doing experiments abroad and mistook his watch for an egg.

They are not talented prodigies, but they have made extraordinary achievements by virtue of their high concentration on the work they love.

Pu Songling said: "If you are infatuated, you are determined to win." Therefore, people who are obsessed with books must work hard, and people who are obsessed with art must have good skills. "

Try to focus on one focus, just like a convex lens! Then walk all the way and do one thing without distractions.

For example:

Bill Gates was once asked the secret of success, and he only gave one word: "concentration".

Ushinski, a famous Russian educator, commented on concentration: attention is the only door to our hearts, and everything in our consciousness must go through it before it can come in.

Attention is one of the five basic factors of intelligence, and it is the preparation state of memory, observation, imagination and thinking.

If children have problems in attention, it will affect the absorption of knowledge, thus further affecting the quality of children's learning.

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As parents, if you want to help your child improve this bad situation, you first need to understand three factors that affect attention:

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Physiological factors

American psychologists quantitatively measure attention as a force, and find that primary school students only have 15 units of attention, which is only enough to support children to concentrate on listening to a 20-minute class, copying 15 minutes of new words and memorizing 8 minutes of words.

In addition, there are differences in attention consumption in different learning stages, among which three stages consume the most:

Psychological research has found that the duration of attention has its age characteristics:

Based on the above research, we can find that:

Because they have just bid farewell to the kindergarten where they play wantonly and entered the serious and standardized primary school campus, most children will be distracted, unable to sit still, like to interrupt and not listen carefully in class because of physiological factors such as short attention duration, insufficient attention stability and weak attention transfer ability.

Over time, children's academic performance will naturally decline gradually, and with the growth of age, children's learning difficulties will become more and more. After entering the third year of high school, the probability of being tired of learning will be much higher than that of children of the same age.

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environmental factor

If the learning environment is chaotic, noisy and too much interference, it will also affect children's attention.

For example, when children are studying, many guests suddenly come to the house, going in and out, turning on the TV and chatting loudly. Every three to five minutes, someone pushed the door and came in to have a look. In the constant interruption, the child can't concentrate on his studies at all.

Psychological research shows that one of the enemies of concentration is noisy environment. Children who are often in a noisy environment can not concentrate, but also have anxiety and anxiety.

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psychologic factor

From a psychological point of view, many children are very focused when doing what they like, but when faced with study and homework, their attention tends to get worse, because learning is boring from the beginning, and children need to go through a groping stage to gradually realize the fun and sense of accomplishment of learning.

However, once many parents find that their children can't meet the requirements, they will be anxious to get angry and criticize.

In the end, it will bring children a belief that learning is difficult and boring, and I am always criticized by my parents. I'm really unhappy.

In the long run, children will instinctively associate learning with negative emotions. At the thought of learning, they immediately feel disgusted and disgusted, lacking internal positive driving force, which leads to children's less and less concentration in learning.

Even more and more escape and resist learning, over time, it is likely to suffer from psychological inattention.

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There is a saying in Yan Jiaxun: "Life is young and spirit is patented. Think hard and relax when you grow up. You must teach early and don't miss the opportunity. "

It means: when people are young, they have high attention and are easy to concentrate. Once they grow up, it is easy for them to be distracted and difficult to concentrate. Therefore, the education of concentration training from childhood can not be ignored or missed.

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Cultivate children's concentration by using daily games

Daily games are not online games, but some puzzle games.

Shulte training method

Schulte watch is the most scientific and effective concentration training method at present.

Draw a 5X5 square table on a piece of white paper. Disrupt the number of 1~25, let children point out the numbers in the order of 1~25, and calculate the corresponding use time.

This form can also be freely deformed according to the difficulty.

If you find it difficult at first, you can start with 3X3 and 4X4 tables, then increase to 5X5 and 6X6 tables, and so on, and the difficulty can be increased.

You can also change it into English letters or graphics, depending on your preference.

Shutel form is also suitable for adults to train their concentration. Our parents can compete with their children and spend less time than anyone else, which increases the fun of the game.

Moderate concentration method of tomato

Set 25 minutes as the tomato clock. During this time, concentrate on your work. Wait for 25 minutes to pass, and then rest for 5 minutes.

The tomato clock is simple, and the tomato time can be determined according to the child's concentration, which can be 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and then increase upwards in turn.

Even game

Draw a line in numerical order once, and finally a lovely stick figure will appear on the screen.

Parents can let their children guess, what will be the final line of this painting? In the process of connection, children can not only experience fun, but also exercise patience.

At present, there are game books with similar numbers on the market, and you can play them for a long time by buying one.

If parents want to make their children more interested, they can also add links, and finally let their children dress them in beautiful colors with colored pens.

Anti-password game

The anti-password game is that parents give instructions and children act according to the opposite password.

For example, when a parent gives an instruction to "stand up", the child will react in the opposite way and immediately sit down.

"Open your eyes" means close your eyes.

"Raise your left hand" means raise your right hand.

Puzzles and building blocks

Puzzles and building blocks may be the most commonly used concentration training games for parents.

In the process of jigsaw puzzles, improve children's detailed observation; Building blocks can improve children's spatial strength and help to exercise concentration.

Find keywords

Listen to the story to find keywords: parents can read more than one story paragraph to their children, tell them in advance how many times a keyword in the story needs to be answered, and ask them to listen to the story carefully.

After reading the story, guide the children to say the correct answer.

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In daily life, parents need to pay attention to communication with their children and get to know their emotional changes at the first time.

When children are found to be emotionally unstable, it is necessary to find out the reasons that make them feel unstable in time. After finding out the reason, help the child with emotional counseling at the first time.

In the book Mindfulness Cultivation, the exercises of concentration and emotional control are mentioned, including:

Frog breathing

Like a frog, the abdomen swells when inhaling and spits out when exhaling.

In some scenes prone to anxiety, turning your attention to the abdomen can stop the confusion of the brain and have the effect of "immediate calm".

Personal weather reporting method

"Negative emotions are like bubbles, and only when you are in them will you be affected by them. Once separated, they will soon disappear naturally from the perspective of a bystander. "

"Personal weather report method" is a way to switch the "third perspective".

After children go to primary school, they begin to face all kinds of complicated things in life, and it is inevitable that they will have all kinds of anxiety:

In school and family, consciously substituting these two exercises can improve children's cognition of themselves, which is more conducive to the further cultivation of concentration.

In addition, parents should also pay attention to creating a good learning environment for their children.

For example, prepare a fixed learning place for children and create a quiet learning environment and good lighting for him.