A few days ago, in order to understand the views of parents of 3-6-year-old children on the above issues, parents of 3-6-year-old children in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou conducted a survey on the importance of fully activating the left and right brains to their children's brain development, and invited Professor Yang Jian, an early education expert from Wuhan University, to make a detailed analysis of the survey.
Comparison of parent-child relationship between one place and three places;
The survey shows that more than 85% of parents and grandparents in the three places can spare more than two hours to play with their children every day, especially in Guangzhou, where parents pay more attention to parent-child relationship, and all parents interviewed spend more than two hours with their children every day. In Beijing, about 15% of parents spend only 1 hour with their children every day.
Second, the best early education time:
Parents in China generally have a better understanding of early education than in the 1990s, especially their emphasis on early education. They think the earlier the better. For example, 90% of the respondents in Beijing believe that starting from the age of 0 (including pregnancy) is the result of the popularization of early education in recent years. However, Guangzhou parents' answer to "the most ideal start time of early education" is worthy of attention. More than 7% parents think that the best time is after their children are 3 years old. This shows that parents' awareness of early education in Guangzhou needs to be improved.
Third, left brain VS right brain:
The ideal education is the full development and balanced development of the left and right brains. However, Professor Yang believes that the development of the right brain in infancy is more important. Unfortunately, when parents in three cities pay attention to the development of left and right brains, they should focus on the development of right brains, but they often pay a little more attention to the development of left brains, with an average of about 55% in three cities. This somewhat reflects that cities that attach the most importance to early education (such as Beijing) may pay more attention to mathematical logic than art. In terms of parents' specific views on early education, it is worth noting that the proposition that "the process of early education is a process of ability training" is indeed flawed. Because early education is not only the cultivation of ability. However, 95% of parents in Beijing agree with this view. Interestingly, in Shanghai, on the contrary, almost 100% people disagree with this view. This shows that there are some deviations in Beijing's early education propaganda. In addition, the view that children play is not learning is wrong. Children don't distinguish between play and study, but their parents' understanding is quite different. A quarter of the respondents in Guangzhou think it is right, while only 10% of parents in Beijing have a good foundation, but parents in Shanghai don't think so. About 80% think that playing is not learning, which needs further clarification to parents.
Fourth, the choice of milk powder products:
Consumers in the three places are more rational when purchasing milk powder, and attach importance to the benefits of quality to the growth and development of infants. Parents in these three places have basically the same understanding. This has brought confidence to domestic and foreign milk powder manufacturers on how to improve product quality and further enhance service. Finally, Professor Yang concluded that Shanghai consumers are more rational and practical, Beijing has the best awareness of early education, but it is slightly left-brained, and Guangzhou consumers' awareness of early education needs to be improved. However, consumers in Guangzhou are generally most concerned about the healthy growth of children.
Through this questionnaire, experts found three most obvious misunderstandings in early education, and designed a set of solutions for these six misunderstandings. This plan mainly focuses on three important elements for the all-round development of the brain: "adequate nutrition", "educational games" and "parental participation". Children and parents * * * participate in intellectual exercises, puzzle games and visit meaningful exhibition halls. In order to let consumers experience the correct way of early education, 15 lucky families were selected from consumers all over the country. 1At the beginning of October, 165438+ This 15 families will go to Hong Kong for an intellectual trip to activate their left and right brains! In this activity, Professor Yang will show the correct and scientific methods of early education to parents all over the country through games and visits with parents and children, and at the same time make a correct demonstration of the misunderstanding of early education by domestic parents in theory and practice.
Tips for intelligent division of labor between left and right brain;
According to experts' research results, people's left and right brains are in charge of different functions. The left brain is called "academic brain", which is mainly responsible for language, logic, mathematics, sequence, symbol and analysis. Simply put, it is to use logical thinking to adjust things. In early childhood, children can be trained to recite poems, learn new words and practice simple number addition and subtraction to stimulate children to develop their left brain. The right brain, also known as the "artistic brain", is in charge of rhythm, rhythm, painting, imagination, emotion and creativity. In other words, the right brain plays an important role in children's creativity and imagination. Dance training, painting, simple design for children and more parent-child communication are all very helpful to the development of the right brain.
4-6 months baby early education content:
If your baby is just 4-6 months old, you must know that such a big baby is already very capable. After 4-6 months, the baby's perception ability is further strengthened and the hand function is improved. Many times, he will hold on to what is in his hand. Lying in bed is no longer as honest as when you were two or three months old, and you will start to turn over on your own. When he hears adults talking, he will make "hmm" and "ah" sounds to communicate with him and get to know his mother and father. Soon, the baby's perception ability has made greater development. Careful parents will find that when you talk about something your baby is familiar with, the baby in your arms will look at it and even reach out and touch it. The same is true of language ability. Babies of five or six months will follow their parents to pronounce some simple syllables, such as Ba, Ma and Da, and even combine two syllables, such as Baba and Mom, which makes our young parents feel excited and proud.
This stage is very important for the baby's growth. In terms of physical development, we all know that this stage is the time when babies only drink breast milk and begin to add complementary food. This period is equally important in intellectual development. With the baby's sensory perception gradually enhanced, our unremitting efforts to stimulate his sensory perception when he was younger began to pay off. Whether your child is sensitive to the outside world and whether he can successfully obtain information from the outside world has begun to show signs. At the same time, there are more things waiting for our parents to do. On the basis of the baby's early development, continue to stimulate the baby's senses and guide the baby to contact and know the world with his eyes, ears and hands.
A 4-6-month-old baby doesn't have the conscious function yet, that is to say, although such a big baby is very capable compared with a younger baby, he can only passively accept the external appearance information, but can't actively reconstruct these appearances, so whether the baby is smart at this time does not depend on whether he can use his brain, but on whether he is sensitive to external stimuli. Similarly, our parents' educational task is very simple, that is, to let the baby feel and experience more, and to lead our children to get in touch with the outside world more. At this time, the baby's curiosity is often very strong, because as he becomes more and more capable and understands the world, he will have a stronger desire to contact and explore the world. Older babies may pester their parents for this and that, and sometimes they bite when playing with toys. These behaviors are all manifestations of the baby's strong desire to explore. Parents should not stop, the baby is experiencing the world with his own glasses and ears. When a baby picks up something and bites it in his mouth, he knows and understands its nature through his feelings. These are all manifestations of the baby's initiative to explore and understand the world, and parents should encourage and create conditions for this.
In short, with the growth of the baby's age, his ability and desire to explore the world are getting stronger and stronger. This is because the baby is preparing for his intellectual development. At this stage, the task of parents is still to stimulate the baby's vision, hearing and touch, so that the baby has a sensitive perception and is fully prepared for future study.
Babies roll over meaningfully at five to six months. At this stage, because all parts of the baby's body have matured, there will be reflex reaction, and its development process is from prone position to supine position, and then from supine position to prone position.
* Importance:
All parts of the baby's body have gradually matured, including nerves, bones and muscles. The activities on Mayday are well coordinated, and rough movements can gradually develop. And a good turn-over action will help to develop a sitting posture in the next month or two.
:: Questions about bones:
Liu, the attending physician of orthopedics, said that some parents will find that when the baby turns over, one branch has internal rotation. This condition is usually caused by immature nerves on both sides of the arm. Parents don't have to worry too much, but it's best to take it to a hospital for diagnosis by a professional doctor.
* Parental assistance:
Wu Fenfen, a pediatrician, suggested that when the baby is awake, parents can hold the baby's head with their hands and slowly rotate it to drive the body to rotate from top to bottom. Or grab the baby's feet with both hands and slowly turn to the other direction to drive the body to flip from bottom to top.
Parents can also pick up the baby and keep him at a certain distance from his body, but don't stick it on his chest so that the baby can see his mother's face. This can train the baby to support the head, exercise the neck muscles and help him turn over.
* Suggested assistive tools:
Small sheets, small pillows
* arrangement of safety environment:
Because the baby is lying on his back most of the time at this time, it is necessary to pay attention to whether there are dangerous goods around him to prevent the baby from grabbing at will or even putting it in his mouth to cause infarction and injury.
For the baby who just learned to turn over, the bed is undoubtedly the most dangerous thing. Falling off the bed can easily cause serious damage to the baby's head, and parents must not ignore it. Parents are advised to install guardrails at the baby's bedside while enjoying the fun of turning over to avoid accidents.
The development of language is an extremely complicated process, which takes a long time. Children who can never speak will go through three stages, that is, first learn pronunciation, then understand language, and finally express language. It's not like some parents think that children can talk at a certain time.
Babies of this age are in the pronunciation stage. Compared with the previous stage, it has obviously become active and its pronunciation has been obviously improved. In addition to the large number of initials and finals, this sound is also characterized by syllable repetition, such as "Ma-Ma-Ma", "Ba-Ba" and "Da-Da-Da". These sounds have no substantive meaning, just to prepare for formal speaking and understanding of words in the future. They are very interested in the sound they make, and often take pains to make repeated sounds. Under the teasing of adults, they will laugh and scream.
Although a child of this age can't speak yet, it doesn't mean that he is not learning to speak. He is preparing for his future speech. So parents should be aware of this. When taking children to play, be sure to talk to them more, teach them pronunciation and encourage them to pronounce. Don't turn a blind eye to children's pronunciation, which will discourage children's interest in learning to speak and is not conducive to their language development.
Children of this age will show fear, vigilance and retreat when they meet strangers, and even cry. They don't want to get close to strangers, let alone hug strangers, but when they meet familiar family members, especially their mothers, they will show happy and lively appearance. Everyone knows that this is a sign that children are afraid of life. Every child will have this process, but why are children afraid of life? Not everyone can understand this.
In fact, children's fear of strangers is a manifestation of memory. Because family members or mothers often come into contact with children, the appearance of their faces leaves an impression on children's minds, and children will remember their faces, while strangers' faces have never been seen by children. This image is so different from the image of the familiar person he left in his mind that he will refuse to accept it and show his approval. Children of this age also have this phenomenon. They obviously prefer women who are about their mother's age and dress beautifully than older men, and they are less afraid of strangers. This is also because there is little difference between the images of these women and their mothers, which will not cause strong contrast and make children feel less strange.
Every child will be shy with strangers at this age, but every child shows different degrees of shy with strangers, which has a certain relationship with his own temperament and living environment. "Easy-to-raise" children are easy to adapt to the environment, have a positive attitude towards the outside world, and are not too afraid of being born. On the contrary, some timid and slow-adapting children are more afraid of being born. In addition, children with more family members and more opportunities to get in touch with the outside world have less fear of life.
The child's fear of life shows that he has the ability to remember. In fact, children's memory ability existed before this. The earliest memory is the memory of feeding posture. As long as the mother holds her in a fixed feeding posture, the child will understand that she can breastfeed and will make an action to find the nipple. Children who are artificially fed have special memories of bottles. As soon as he saw the bottle, he knew he could eat milk. By 2-3 months, when the baby's attention disappears from sight, he can look for it with his eyes, which also shows that his memory is very short. At this age, children can remember their mothers and familiar people, distinguish them from strangers, and show fear of life. As children come into contact with more and more people and things, as well as the psychological development, the fear of life will gradually disappear.
When a child reaches this age, parents will find that he likes to suck his fingers. No matter how much you hinder him, it won't help. He still wants to smoke, so absorbed that no one is watching. This problem is quite disturbing to parents. To deal with this problem, we must first understand why babies like to suck their fingers. What does sucking fingers mean to them?
Finger sucking means different things to babies before half a year old and babies after half a year old. Babies 6 months ago completely suck their fingers to meet the need of sucking, so it is especially obvious in artificially fed babies and hungry babies. Sucking reflex is a congenital unconditional reflex. Touching the baby's lips three months ago will cause his sucking reflex. This reflex is an instinct for survival, and it is particularly exciting. Therefore, babies, especially those three months ago, often use their fingers as irritants to meet the requirements of sucking, showing that they particularly like to suck their fingers. Breast-fed babies can suck as much as they want, and have more time to satisfy their sucking instinct, so breast-fed babies suck less with their fingers. The artificially-fed child, because he uses a bottle, his parents will not let him empty the bottle after the milk in the bottle is sucked, so the chance of sucking is relatively small, so the phenomenon of finger sucking of artificially-fed children is more common. By 3-4 months, with the gradual disappearance of the sucking reflex, the baby's sucking requirements began to gradually weaken, and by 6-7 months, the general phenomenon of sucking fingers naturally disappeared. If the baby continues to suck fingers or starts sucking fingers after 6 months, it is no longer a performance of masturbation. After 6 months, the baby is emotionally fragile. He is afraid of leaving his parents and familiar people around him, and he is particularly attached to his relatives. At this time, he had his own initial requirements for independence, so he often sucked his fingers when he was tired, nervous, depressed and separated from the closest people and used it to comfort himself.
Knowing why babies suck their fingers, we should take correct measures to solve this problem. Babies 6 months ago suck their fingers just to meet the sucking requirements. Generally, it will disappear naturally in 6-7 months, so don't care too much about this problem. Parents can solve this problem by satisfying their children's sucking requirements, such as breastfeeding their children as much as possible and letting them suck for a while to satisfy their sucking instinct. Don't stare at the child nervously all the time, take off your fingers as soon as you put them in your mouth, and don't put something bitter and spicy on your child's little finger to prevent it, or put gloves on your child. These methods are basically useless except consuming the energy of adults and making children suffer. Children will still suck their fingers with relish whenever they have the chance. It is a kind of masturbation for the baby to suck his fingers after 6 months. Parents should find ways to relieve their children's psychological tension and think about whether their children lack interesting toys. Didn't you hug the child more and talk to him more? Does the child spend too much time sitting alone in the stroller? Wait a minute. Create a warm and pleasant living environment for children, take them for a walk in nature, expose them to more stimuli and devote their energy to exploring things of interest to the outside world. Avoid coercive, simple and rude means. In this way, the child's habit of sucking fingers will gradually fade away.
Parents should also pay attention to the fact that children's habit of sucking their fingers does not last long. It can fade away quickly for a while, or it can pick up again at a certain stage. For example, during illness, it is normal in a new environment. As long as it is handled properly, it will eventually fade completely.
At 4-5 months, the baby's head-eye coordination ability is good. His eyes move from side to side with the moving object 180 degrees, and he can follow the object. If the ball falls from his hand, he will look for it with his eyes. For more than 6 months, the eyes can rotate 90 degrees up and down with the moving objects. I like bright colors such as red, orange and yellow, especially red objects can attract the excitement and attention of babies. At this time, the child's vision can reach 0. 1, and he can see distant objects, such as pedestrians and vehicles in the street. For children of this age, we can check whether the visual development is normal by selective viewing, which is a screening method and can judge the visual development of children at an early stage. Parents can take their children to the children's health department for examination in this respect.
At this age, children's listening has also made great progress. After hearing the sound, they can quickly turn their heads to the sound source, distinguish their mother's voice from other people's voices, have a clear reaction to their mother's language and their own names. I like listening to music, and I can show my attention.
This one-month-old child has an upright head, a wider field of vision and is interested in the things around him. Parents should take advantage of their children's interest in certain things and teach them about them first. Usually, parents must observe what the baby likes to stare at and find out what he likes to watch best to learn, so that it is easy to learn. If the baby likes watching lights, parents can turn them on and off to attract the baby's eyes to fall on the lights, and then say "lights". Sometimes the baby will stare at his mother's face or his hands will not look at the light. At this time, the mother can turn off the light, touch the lampshade or the cloth on the light with the baby's little hand, and then suddenly turn on the light and tell him "light" to associate the sound with the shiny object. When adults talk about lights again, the baby will look up at the lights himself. No matter what you usually do, you should tell your child as you do it, especially the things he touches every day and the objects he often sees, such as "we eat milk", "bottle", "water" and "TV". Train your child to get familiar with these names, or teach him to look at and point to these things and connect words with things. You can also play with your baby in front of the mirror and say to him while looking in the mirror: This makes full use of the development of children's various senses and the formation of movements, and develops the baby's cognitive ability by letting children observe the surrounding environment.
Language ability is an important part of human ability, and the development of language ability is the expression of intellectual development, which in turn can promote intellectual development.
Four months ago, the baby would only make some meaningless tones unconsciously, but when our baby is four months old, the situation will gradually change. Although the baby's pronunciation is still unconscious, it is often a reaction to the adult's pronunciation, which means that communication has begun. If someone talks to him, he will respond by babbling and laughing. Will cheer; When crying, the soothing voice of an adult will make him stop crying or divert his attention. This is communication, that is, the baby's understanding of external information. This progress is enormous. Psychological research shows that in terms of language development, understanding precedes expression, that is, babies listen and understand words much earlier than they speak. For example, a 4-month-old baby, a kind word will cause his happy emotional response, which will be rewarded with a smile and active movements of the whole body, and even cause his pronunciation response. Babies aged 6 ~ 7 months can understand some simple sentences, such as asking "where is mom?" He will look for his mother everywhere. This shows that the baby has the ability to accept language at 4 ~ 6 months. Listening is the basis of communication, and communication is the basis of speaking. Our parents must communicate with the baby more at this stage, and don't be afraid that he can't understand what you are saying. In fact, your baby's learning ability may far exceed your expectations.
The baby of 4-6 months is already actively preparing to talk. In fact, he can't wait to communicate with his parents who hug him and kiss him every day. Be sure to encourage your baby's desire, communicate with your baby often, and help your baby do it before speaking.
Four misunderstandings in early education:
Because most parents think that early education is to make children outstanding, there are many problems in early education. A survey by some experts of the Expert Committee of the All-China Women's Federation's "China Baby Care Project" shows that the early education that originally promoted children's development "hurt" children because of the misunderstanding of early education.
One of the misunderstandings: treat the baby as a patient.
The survey found that more than 80% of families think that babies are fragile and should be taken care of like patients. Babies are not patients. They have all kinds of abilities from the beginning of the fetus, and they have 72 potentials and amazing adaptability at birth. In addition to caring for the environment, babies need to exercise, communicate and even "take risks" to tap their potential in the body. If we treat them as patients, their potential will disappear one by one.
Myth 2: Take education as a preparation.
According to an expert survey, more than 90% families equate education with learning, and think that academic achievement is the effect of education. As a result, children start reading within one year old and learning foreign languages within three years old, and more than 85% of children aged 3-6 attend various training courses. Experts point out that education is the cultivation of ability, not achievement. Education includes many contents, such as healthy psychology, happy mood, cooperative spirit, way of thinking, practical ability, language expression and so on. It can't be measured by grades. It is to let children develop good habits, not to force children to master a specialty.
Myth 3: Set the goal too high.
In parents' minds, they have designed a bright future for their children. Many parents believe that children should not be allowed to lose at the starting line. The child has learned a few words, and if he recognizes them in a few days, it is a big mistake. Even some parents think that their children are not outstanding now and will not have "great prospects" in the future. In fact, there is more than one starting line in life, and life has different starting points at any time.
Myth 4: I hope the child is a "prodigy"
The survey found that only 30% people want their children to develop normally, and most parents want their children to be "outstanding", preferably child prodigies. In fact, the proportion of children with abnormal intelligence is very small, and more than 90% of children are normal children. If parents insist on setting an extraordinary standard for normal children, the result can only be equal to pulling out the seedlings to encourage them.