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My son will be two years old next month. Recently, I will consciously pay attention to the characteristics of those 2-year-old babies. When I walked again, I heard several adults share their parenting experiences. A parent said, I'm going to start teaching children to count, first count to 10, and then plan to recite 2-3 poems of Tang poetry every week, and try to remember 100 poems in kindergarten. Another parent said that he bought many word cards to teach his children to read.

I listened to their conversation, and then looked back at my silly and cheerful son. While digging and weeding, he smiled and said to himself, Look at this rhythm, son. You will get lost at the starting line. Children will talk about it later. Maybe it's your classmate.

In fact, I also play Tang poetry and Song lyrics, rhythm enlightenment and nursery rhymes every day to hone my son's ears, but I didn't mean to teach him to recite. My child's memory is really great! After listening to this, my son memorized several poems, as well as an eloquent "Rhythm Enlightenment". Sometimes I want to write couplets with him. I remember one sentence, and he remembers the next. In his view, this method is just a game.

Every parent wants his children to be smarter and smarter and become principals in the future. The educational condition in our country is that kindergartens begin to learn primary school knowledge, which will inevitably catch up with and surpass it gradually.

However, if we understand the process of children's intellectual development, we will find out which method can improve children's intellectual development.

The famous Montessori educator said: words grasp feelings, stabilize feelings, clarify feelings, deepen feelings, and make vague and short-lived feelings his clear object. This thing is called "intelligence". Intelligence is the development from feeling to concept. There is nothing in intelligence that is not originally derived from feeling.

Montessori education believes that children's intelligence comes from all sensory experiences, not mechanically instilled in them. For example, we hold a card with blue sky and white clouds and tell our children that it is blue sky and white clouds. Repeat it several times, the child will definitely remember it, but when we point to the real sky and ask the child with white clouds, the child may not know.

On the contrary, if we point directly at the sky and white clouds, let the children look up and tell them: this is the sky, the sky is blue and very vast, this is white clouds, and white clouds are floating in the sky one by one. When your eyes feel the direct stimulation of blue sky and white clouds, the concept of blue sky and white clouds will be formed.

Similarly, we should let children know what is soft, what is hard, what is long and what is short. These all need to provide direct sensory stimulation, such as soft dough, hard rocks, long strips of cloth and short straws. Before forming these concepts, children will use vision to compare and touch to produce touch.

Through feeling, concepts are formed, and then the relationship between concepts is established. This understanding of things is the behavior of children before the age of 6.

This method accords with the law of brain development in early life.

Psychologists' research shows that in the early stage of life, the development of the brain is not a simple mature procedure, but a product of the combination of biological factors and early experience.

In infancy, the brain is growing at an alarming rate. At birth, the weight of the baby's brain is 25% of that of the adult's brain, and by the age of 2, the weight of the baby's brain has reached 75% of that of the adult's brain. In this highly developed process, the brain will produce a large number of neurons and synapses, which can accept any type of sensory and motor stimulation that humans may experience. These frequently stimulated neurons and synapses will remain. Later, unstimulated neurons will lose their synapses.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the more stimuli, the more neurons and synapses, and the denser the "network roads" of the brain. Of course, the brain will be more "useful" and have more paths. More powerful. "

Neurons, synapses and other fats that make up the brain are biological factors, and early experience is sensory stimulation to the brain.

As a way to develop children's intelligence, this kind of sensory training is also the concept of many early educational institutions. Parents who take their children to early education should find that early education courses cover many sensory courses by stimulating their children, such as Orff music. Listening will cultivate children's sense of rhythm.

Margaret is an expert in early education. He founded KindyROO Baby Education Center, a famous brand of early education. He believes that all sensory stimuli will be transmitted to the brain (hearing, sight, touch, taste and various signals received by muscles and ligaments). Body)), and produce knowledge or understanding of things, called perception.

Therefore, sensory training is very important in her early education concept. Every month-old child should be trained with corresponding sensory stimulation, such as dance, music, massage, exercise, inner ear vestibule and so on. To promote the development of the nervous system.

Every baby opens the door with his mouth to explore the world. They feed their mouths to meet their survival needs, confirm their mothers' existence with breast milk, wake up their hands by sucking their fingers with their mouths, and feel different when biting toys with their mouths. Materials.

At first, they felt the world with their taste. After the development of hand movements, people will still touch, throw things and dig holes. As fine movements become more and more skilled, they can do more things.

When they can walk independently, completely free their hands and move freely, you will find that children will have more and more things.

Many parents have this feeling: my god, the baby will wear these beads himself, but I have never taught him. It's too difficult for babies to distinguish hexagons from pentagons. excellent

You will find that even if we don't teach children deliberately, they will still learn a lot. This is what Montessori said, children are absorbing minds, and their ideas come from their sensory experience.

For example, my son likes watching cars recently. Whenever he sees a car parked in the community, he will run to touch the outline of the logo, ask me what kind of car it is, and then run to touch the tires. When he sees the same car, he will say it's Buick, and he can recognize the logo from the front wheel and tires.

Another example is listening to voices to identify cars. The sound of police cars, ambulances, fire engines and garbage trucks is unique. If he hears the sound of a car at home, he will immediately calm down, open his eyes and listen carefully, then say what kind of car it is and describe the general shape of the car, such as a long fire engine, red, with a ladder and a ceiling light.

The formation process of automobile cognition is a typical process of forming concepts through sensory stimulation, which can link different concepts (sound and automobile model).

If you only use pictures to tell your child what a fire truck is, it will be more convincing to show him a real fire truck.

The development of modern society has brought us a lot of convenience, but at the same time it has also brought some problems. For example, use various high-tech and fast-paced tools to replace children's self-exploration of self-feeling development.

Many children lost the opportunity to explore the outdoors. Most of them play on the playground, watch TV, watch mobile phones or play virtual games. Some parents think that it is very clever to operate the mobile phone skillfully and turn on the channel on TV when the child is still very young, but is the child really smart?

Sensory refers to five basic senses: sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell. All the information the brain receives comes from them. If the information transmitted to the brain is scarce, then the processing of the brain will be very simple. Nerve synapses are hardly used, and neurons follow the principle of "use first and then don't use", so unused synapses will disappear.

On the contrary, in order to make the brain work and play a greater role, it is necessary to "find a job" for the brain and send information to the brain in a targeted manner.

In fact, this principle is very simple. For example, if we are adults and want to be a good taster, we must first train our sense of smell and taste. If we want to be a professional Piano tuner, we must train our listening skills.

Remember the water brothers in super brain? The man of God can distinguish the correct answer from a hundred glasses of water, which is inseparable from his demonstration of the power of water and his visual ability and imagination.

So how do we train children's senses?

1. Use the classic Montessori sensory AIDS.

Sensory training occupies a large proportion in Montessori education system, but not every family has the conditions to let their children go to Montessori kindergarten. We can choose the classic Montessori teaching AIDS to use in families and children, and also achieve the purpose of sensory training.

The premise is that parents need to learn how to use Montessori teaching AIDS and how to implement Montessori educational thought. In this respect, you can refer to my article: the appearance is dim and the operation is simple, but my son is fascinated by it! This expensive Montessori teaching aid was not in vain.

Using Montessori teaching AIDS, let children form concepts such as length, height, thickness, thickness, color and shape.

2. Learn and use life scenes.

Life scene is the best place for children to learn, and it is also the place they are most interested in. This is why many children like to play in the kitchen, because there are all kinds of sounds in the kitchen, bottles, pots and pans.

For parents, this is an economical and effective sensory training method, which can make full use of life scenes and entertainment activities, such as:

1) Taste training

When eating or eating fruit, give children different foods and taste them together. Every time you eat a food, please tell your child what it is and what it tastes like, and then let your child relate the food to the taste through taste.

For example, if you eat an apple, please tell your child that it is an apple. Apples taste sweet and sour. Then children will imitate you, bite apples and say the same thing. Then you will ask the child: What are you eating? How does it taste?

Repeatedly, children can form a conceptual memory of sweet and sour taste in their brains. If they eat the same taste in the future, it will naturally conform to the concept of sweet and sour taste.

2) Tactile training

Collect different materials at home, such as porcelain bowls, stainless steel basins, soft towels and coarse rags. And let the children touch it with their hands and tell them how they feel before touching it. Ask the children how this towel feels.

The game can be upgraded. Put these things in the box, let the children reach out and touch them, and tell them what they have touched. This game is very interesting for children around three years old.

3) Auditory training

Give your child a small stick, prepare some tools with different materials, let him knock on the door and make different sounds, and feel whether the sound is loud or small.

You can also beat time, dance and feel the rhythm with nursery rhymes.

4) Visual training

Babies can train visual tracking and visual perception by watching black and white cards. Older babies (such as babies around 2 years old) can train their eyesight by looking at pictures and remembering them.

For example, parents make photo albums while playing with their baby, and then let the baby look at the photos to recall what happened at that time, where we went, what we saw, and the baby's behavior in the photos. This game can not only promote parent-child relationship, but also promote family life. Recalling happy travel time together can also exercise your baby's language ability.

5) Smell training

Every time you cook, there will be all kinds of rice smells. This is the best time for smell training. Let the baby smell it, and then tell the baby that this is the smell of tomatoes, this is the smell of steamed fish and this is the smell of rice.

It is a very powerful skill to know what food is being cooked today just by smelling it with your nose.

Parents can also make some smell bottles and fill them with liquids or fruits with different tastes, so that children can smell the smell and guess its taste and fruit.

3. Let more children return to nature

Nature is the best place to feel and experience. In the documentary "Foreign Childhood", Finnish children observe the plants in the forest every day under the guidance of their teachers, looking for answers about colors and smells.

Although all kinds of facilities in the playground play an important role in the development of children's sports, they cannot completely replace children's sensory needs.

Take children to travel and experience different natural scenery and human environment. These experiences will become precious spiritual wealth for children.

Feeling is the first step for children to know the world. For a long time to come, they still need to deepen their understanding of the world through feelings. We always regard mastering certain skills as the standard of intellectual development. In fact, it is most important for children to learn how to master skills.

Pay attention to children's sensory development, accumulate early life experience, and let intelligence begin to sprout.

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