On the social platform, one of the most popular answers from parents is: Turn on the TV, turn on the cartoon, and Xiong Haizi will be quiet in a second.
Because the characters and pictures in cartoons are very attractive to children, they can satisfy the curiosity of children's young minds. Therefore, most children can't resist the temptation of cartoons. In front of the TV, children will immediately calm down and concentrate on watching TV, giving their parents a chance to breathe.
But is it appropriate to watch TV for children? What kind of TV programs should I show my children? For children, is watching TV "early education" or "harmful"?
There is a line in the fantasy novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that says:
Never, never, never let children near your TV. It's best not to buy or pretend. This is the stupidest thing.
British education expert Martin Lawson once said:
"If you can make your children stop watching TV before 12 years old, they will benefit for life."
For most families, it is hard to watch TV before 12 years old. After all, today's society is a society with rapid development of information. If children can use electronic products reasonably, they can not only broaden their horizons, but also improve their academic performance.
However, parents still try not to let children aged 0-3 watch TV.
Watching TV before the age of 3 may interfere with attention.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has done a lot of research and found that:
Letting children under 3 watch TV too early may hinder the development of young children.
Mainly because children aged 0-3 learn and know the world through hearing, vision, touch and hand movements.
In other words, children at this stage directly feel the people and things around them through perceptual actions, and then form cognition in their brains.
Children aged 0-3 watch TV. For children, it's just a flash of the picture. Children just think it's novel and fun. However, due to the limitation of their physical development, their memory, understanding and discrimination are far from enough. So they can't understand the logic and stories in comics.
Read a study mentioned:
Before the child is 3 years old, every time he watches 1 hour TV every day, the incidence of attention disorder will increase 10%.
Because children can't understand TV content, they are only attracted by TV pictures. For children, the information received by the brain is mostly chaotic, which will also have an impact on children's attention and thinking in their future study and life. After a long time, children can easily lose their concentration for a long time.
Children aged 0-3 are more suitable for interactive learning.
0-3-year-old children, through face-to-face communication and learning, run wild outdoors and interact with real people one-on-one and one-to-many, far better than learning from the screen.
Keep children away from TV, go outdoors and on the grass, see with eyes, listen with ears, touch with hands and feel with heart, so that children can strengthen their understanding of the world through various sensory perception and hand movements.
Instead of letting children watch Peggy jump in the mud pit on TV, it is better to let children experience what mud pit jumping is; Instead of letting children know about flowers and trees on TV, it is better to let them experience, smell flowers, touch trees, feel nature with body and mind, and feel the beauty of the world.
Parents always want to know what can be done to further increase the parent-child relationship between parents and children. Actually, interaction is a very good way. On the one hand, it can increase the communication between parents and children, so that children can feel the love and care of their parents. On the other hand, face-to-face communication between people can also make children concentrate.
When parents and children have parent-child interaction, children can see the expression on their parents' faces, understand their current mood, and make eye contact with their parents, which is also one of the effective ways to make children concentrate.