Research shows that children's IQ is determined by both parents, and congenital genetic factors determine 70%-80% IQ. In other words, from the moment you decide who to have children with, your child's IQ is basically determined. If it is a girl, the influencing factors of mom and dad account for 50% respectively, and if it is a boy, the decisive factor of mom will be as high as 75%.
Does a child have a high IQ, so he must be smart? IQ is just a number, a set of measurement methods and a foundation. What really determines whether a child is smart or not is another concept, wisdom, which is more important than IQ.
So what is the relationship between wisdom and IQ?
IQ is the foundation, wisdom is the ability to use IQ, and this ability is thinking ability. Thinking ability includes understanding, analyzing, synthesizing, comparing, generalizing, abstracting, reasoning, demonstrating and judging. It is the core of our whole wisdom.
Babies aged 0 to 6 have the fastest brain development, especially those aged 0 to 3. Therefore, this stage is a critical period for children to cultivate their thinking ability intelligently.
There are so many categories of children's thinking ability, which should be cultivated and exercised? Experts say that the three critical thinking abilities are divergent thinking, logical thinking and imagination.
Psychologists have done such an experiment, draw a circle on the blackboard and ask the students present what this is. The older the students are, the more fixed the answer is. College students say it's round. However, the answers of two or three-year-old children are very interesting. There are sun, balls, mirrors, bubble gum and everything. Perhaps college students' answers are more scientific, but compared with kindergarten children, they seem a little monotonous and boring.
Children have divergent thoughts since childhood, and adults are used to many things, and will not deliberate and imagine. So there are a lot of prejudices in thought. For example, people who wear glasses love reading. In fact, mentality is the enemy of all of us. Whoever can overcome this habit and mindset in life is a wise man.
The development of logical thinking has three stages, from action thinking to image thinking, and then to abstract logical thinking. 3 years old is mainly action thinking, 3 to 6 years old is concrete image thinking, and 6 to 1 1 year old can have very complicated abstract logical thinking.
Logical thinking ability directly determines children's learning ability in mathematics, physics, chemistry and other subjects in the future. So now many parents pay great attention to their children's logical thinking. There are also many courses to cultivate children's logical thinking in the market, so what is Luo Ji's thinking at the age of 0-6 and how to cultivate it?
First, sorting.
Sorting things can help children understand that there are certain connections between things and certain characteristics can be classified into one category. We can prepare two small baskets and divide the toys at home into two categories. There are different types of toys in the basket, so let the children put the rest according to the category. For example, there are many toys on the ground. We put all the green ones together and the rest of the red ones together for children to sort. Or playing cards, classify the four colors.
Second, find the laws between objects.
With the foundation of classified games, children can be further guided to find the law. For example, we ask our children why the classified building blocks are all the same. Children say everything is square and green, which is to find out the rules and a very good game to exercise children's logical ability.
Third, train children's understanding of order.
You can play house games or role-play with your children. For example, we play the game of firemen fighting fire, find the fire point, drive the fire truck to arrive, save the small animals first, and then start to put out the fire. A series of continuous processes like this contain the concept of logic. Let the children play with you in this order, and the children will understand what temporal logic is.
By analogy, there are many games about logical order that children can play. For example, in the game of planting, when spring comes, we loosen the soil, sow seeds, fertilize water and harvest fruits. These trainings on sequential processes are very helpful to children's thinking.
Imagination is the most precious and shining part of a person. Those great painters, great musicians, great producers and great directors are all people with extraordinary imagination.
Several methods to cultivate imagination:
First, the way to cultivate children's imagination is reading.
Yes, reading is the key to intellectual development and to stimulate children's imagination. Then, it is very easy for children to choose books with many colorful pictures, that is, to draw a book. As far as possible, let the children make up their own stories according to these pictures and tell them themselves. Parents can also help children create plots and role-playing. It is most important to have a sense of participation and fun.
Second, let the children create their own stories.
Some children will tell their stories to themselves, and the protagonist in the story is themselves, which is very good. My son likes telling stories to himself since he was about two and a half years old. Most of them were compiled by himself or recreated according to picture books, and he would tell them to himself in kindergarten.
Third, play music with children.
Children sing at will, and we sing, play and beat time together with our children. There is no such thing as right and standard, everything is right in front of imagination.
I have taught my children early education music lessons since I was a child, and he likes it very much. Now he hums to himself when he has nothing to do, and he also composes many lyrics himself.
Fourth, painting.
Art education is very important, which can quickly introduce children into creative space and let them expand their imagination. In the education of painting art, there are no restrictions, only new contents, new ideas and new topics that need to be tried forever. So this kind of training brings children's imagination, which can't be brought by other studies such as English and calligraphy.
About the author: Lisa Kobayashi, engaged in the education industry 10 years, engaged in early education consultation for 0-6 years old, and actively disciplined students.