More and more research shows the importance of early education. However, early education does not refer to mere knowledge indoctrination, but focuses on brain development and thinking training.
United States Department of Education. Brain development in children. Give the following suggestions on how to help children's brain development:
What can parents do to help their children develop their brains? For example, the following:
1. Talk to children often, such as changing diapers, taking a bath and eating.
2. Provide a good environment for the baby to develop all his senses-sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.
3. Touch your child often.
4. Name the project. Children can learn vocabulary even if they can't speak.
5. Sing to the children. Show children pictures and colors when reading. Ask the children some questions about the story and ask them to retell it.
6. Use proper words to describe present, past and future events (today, tomorrow, before and after, etc.). ).
7. Encourage children to classify and match items in their daily tasks.
8. Tell him what happened and what will happen next.
9. Encourage children to use his imagination and different voices of different roles to act out the stories in the book.
10. Take the children to the library, zoo and other places.
Generally speaking, this 10 suggestion is to let children listen, touch and watch more, so as to develop their perceptual ability, pay attention to parent-child reading, language expression ability and logical thinking ability, and take children to outdoor activities more.
For these, I also discussed them in detail in an article written according to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Encyclopedia of Parenting.
Today, according to the book "Smart Parenting" written by Dr. Wei, the most powerful judge of brain science, I made some arrangement and revision and shared it with readers in need:
There is no parent who doesn't want his baby to be healthy and smart. Among the factors that determine a child's intelligence level, you can't change the genetic factor. But we can provide the baby with enough nutrition for brain development and create a learning environment for the day after tomorrow!
The peak of a child's brain development is only once in his life, and missing it will never be irreversible!
The third trimester and infancy, that is to say, from the fetus of about 30 weeks to the infancy of 1 year, are the fastest stages of baby's brain development.
70% of the weight and structural development of the brain is completed in the fetus and infancy. Since the third trimester of pregnancy, brain development has entered a period of rapid growth. After 12 months, the brain development increased by 175% compared with that at birth, while after 18 months, the growth was only 18%, which greatly slowed down.
From birth to 1 year-old, the brain weight increases at an average rate of 1000 mg per day, and almost 200,000 brain cells are added every minute within six months. The earlier the baby's brain develops, the faster it develops, and the sooner it becomes more critical, so the baby should be smart as soon as possible!
Key stages of brain development:
Stage division
Brain development completion rate
The first stage: the fetus is 3 months to 6 months after delivery.
About 50%-60%
The second stage: postpartum 6 months -3 years old
About 80%-90%
Stage 3: 3 -6 years old
Basically reach the adult level
Therefore, if you want to make your baby's intelligence level higher, you must grasp the time before the age of 3.
So how can we make the baby's brain develop better?
Provide adequate nutrition
1. protein
Protein is used for infants to maintain the metabolism of various tissues and promote the growth and maturity of new tissues. Therefore, it is a key nutrient for infant brain development.
If the baby lacks protein, it will not only affect the brain development, but also slow down the growth of weight and height, and the immunity is low. However, it should be noted that protein overdose is not only useless, but also harmful, so it should be moderate.
2. Docosahexaenoic acid
The development of all brain cells is inseparable from DHA. It can not only promote the development of brain and retina, but also promote the formation of neural network, enhance memory and improve intelligence.
3. lecithin
The higher the lecithin content, the faster the transmission speed of the brain nervous system and the stronger the memory.
The content of all these nutrients in breast milk is definitely higher than that in formula milk powder, so breastfeeding is advocated. Moreover, it is best for mothers in the third trimester to pay attention to the reasonable intake of diet, so as to lay the foundation for the baby's nutrition in the fetal period and after birth.
After 6 months, the complementary food period should be added, and the diet should be scientific and reasonable.
Necessary parent-child communication
Judging from the prenatal education in the fetal period, it is a parent-child communication for a mother to touch her belly and talk to her baby.
Touch after the baby is born, games between parents and babies, and so on. Can promote the baby's brain development very well.
For the simplest example, our hands can make nearly 100 movements. When the baby was 3 months old, the opponent became interested, ate his hand, then practiced grasping, and then pinched something to exercise fine movements. If parents can better guide each stage of development, it will certainly be very beneficial to children's brain development.
The more babies talk, the smarter they get.
In fact, this is also a kind of parent-child communication. It is listed separately because it is very important.
From the baby's first listening to his mother, to imitating his mother, and then to talking by himself, the brain is developing rapidly in this process. Because when babies hear their parents talking to them consciously, their brains will become more active.
In addition, the development of thinking ability coexists with the development of language ability. Many children will only point at things when they are over 2 years old, "Oh, Oh, Oh ……" Because parents communicate with their children too little, and babies see too little.
So please give your children high-quality companionship, not just guards and nurses!
Let children have autonomy.
Many parents think that children are still very young and ignorant, so it is actually very bad to do everything for them.
On the one hand, this will make the child's brain in a passive state, on the other hand, it will make the child lack the ability to make decisions and judgments by himself. If the thinking inertia is formed, then he is unwilling to have his own opinions and rely on his parents for everything.
Of course, if the child is still young, the premise of giving him autonomy is to ensure safety. If he is older, parents can help him with early screening in the face of too much information and materials. For example, how to choose so many children's books on the market? Parents should first master scientific book selection skills, then choose books for their children, and then the children choose their favorite intensive reading.
The education given to children is suitable for their personality.
Teacher Wei, the most powerful brain science judge, believes that the innate genes of children's growth are really indelible, and sometimes even the innate influence is far greater than the acquired influence.
As I said before, the essence of effective education lies in fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses, focusing on developing children's strengths, making talents become specialties, and shortcomings can be cultivated as long as they do not hinder development.
Guide children to leave the comfort zone and come to the learning zone.
The brain is a very energy-saving organ and easy to adapt. Therefore, as the saying goes, the more brains you use, the more flexible you are, and the less rigid you need. This is a fact.
Parents should guide their children out of their comfort zone and challenge themselves before they can grow up. Of course, the difficulty of the challenge should not be increased too much at once, otherwise there will be too much frustration.
Regarding this level, each child's personality and development level are different, and parents need to plan with their heart in combination with their children's characteristics.
Proper feeding is crucial.
Feeding can not only provide nutrition for children's brain development, but also exercise children's language ability. For example, chewing can promote the development of facial muscles, thus promoting the development of language.
In addition, we must be wary of overfeeding, because if the baby eats too much, it will mobilize a lot of blood to digest food in the gastrointestinal tract, and it is easy to have insufficient blood supply and oxygen supply to the brain, which will affect brain development.
Adequate sleep is the guarantee.
Children who lack sleep for a long time have poor concentration and memory.
A study by the University of London in the United Kingdom shows that if there is no relatively fixed sleep time or sleep time is later than 2 1, children will perform worse in reading and arithmetic. In addition, the ability of reaction and spatial cognition will also be reduced.
Participate in outdoor activities
Exercise can not only enhance physical fitness, but more importantly, it can develop children's brain nerves during exercise. Physical exercise is the best way to develop infants' right brain intelligence.
Therefore, it is necessary to consciously stimulate infants to grasp, hug, pinch, throw, grasp, pat, run and jump with their hands, especially to train their fine movements of hands and feet, so as to promote the development and balance of cerebellum.
Moreover, outdoor activities can increase children's knowledge and broaden their horizons, and can also promote the development of language ability through visual stimulation.
Of course, it is also convenient to have more contact with peers when going outdoors. After all, children's intelligence and experience develop faster in interpersonal communication.
The baby's height and weight increase rapidly in infancy, which is the fastest development stage in his life, as we can see.
However, our intangible brain development is also carried out at a high speed during this period, and parents must not miss it!
The peak of brain development is only once in a lifetime, and once it is missed, it can never be reversed! Hurry up and act!