When my daughter was a child, she spent 50 thousand a year on early education classes. At home, I also played early childhood games for her. Because I have been engaged in education, I have made many friends in the education circle. We get together and often talk about early education. Several friends who run early education classes highly admire Montessori's idea of early education.

I remember that when my daughter was more than 5 months old, she especially loved to tear the toilet paper at home. As soon as she saw the toilet paper, her little hand began to tear.

According to Montessori's early education theory, we must attach importance to the flexibility of children's small hands and the development of children's brains. Parents should train their children to do more, which will make their brains develop better. There is an old saying in China called ingenuity, which coincides with Montessori's early education idea.

Children aged 3 to 12 months have a strong interest in their little hands, and they are willing to do it. At this time, parents should not prevent their children from touching objects with small hands. As long as the articles and children's small hands are kept clean and hygienic, conditions can be created for children to do more work, exercise their fine hand movements and hand-eye coordination ability, and contribute to their brain development.

1, hand training game: let children catch small pieces of paper. (Suitable for children aged 3 to 12 months)

Take a piece of paper the same size as the child's palm and train the child to grasp the paper by himself. Parents can grab one end of the paper and let the baby grab it. When the baby wants to grab it, parents can quickly take off the paper, repeat this action for 3 times, and then let the child grab the paper to encourage the child to "the baby is great."

Or throw the paper from a height, let it fall like a butterfly, let the baby catch it, and exercise the flexibility of the child's small hand.

In addition to letting the baby grab pieces of paper, if the baby likes to touch some small items at home with his hands in daily life, parents don't have to deliberately stop it. For example, when my daughter was more than 5 months old, she liked to tear toilet paper into small strips and hold them with her little hands. I didn't stop her As long as the baby's safety and hand hygiene are guaranteed, I will let the baby explore.

2, exercise the baby's observation and take the baby to look in the mirror.

1 year-old babies especially like to look in the mirror. At this time, parents can hold their babies in the mirror and teach them to make various expressions and actions.

Such as smiling face, angry face, crying face, surprised face, etc. It can not only cultivate the baby's observation ability, but also make the baby's imitation ability stronger and exercise the baby's facial muscles.

Of course, to cultivate children's observation, you can also play puzzles with your baby, find things in the room, match caps for different bottles, play classification games, find differences with picture books and so on.

3. Guess the color of the card and exercise the child's memory.

Cut out cards of the same size from cardboard, and paint one side of the card with various colors. The other side of the card looks exactly the same without any marks.

After arranging the cards, let the children look at them for a while, let them remember the location of each card with different colors, then buckle the colored side and let the children tell what color the other side of each card is from memory.

Parents can control the number of cards themselves. They can use three cards at first. After the children are proficient in this game, parents can gradually increase the number of cards to four, seven, 10 and so on.

Parents should remember that the other side of the card should be exactly the same, and the color card can be made by themselves or replaced by the baby's ID card or other similar items. As long as one side of the card is exactly the same and the other side has different patterns or colors, it can be distinguished.

4. Role-playing games stimulate children's imagination.

Many people had the experience of playing house with friends when they were young.

Role-playing games are not only fond memories of children's childhood, but also stimulate children's imagination, which is the basis of creativity. Parents can play role-playing games with their children at home, or organize children to play role-playing games with friends, so that children can enhance their imagination in happiness.

5. Teach children mathematics in life and build their sense of numbers.

For example, when giving children fruits, you can count them with your children. Mom will give you 8 oranges and 5 strawberries today. Or at the dinner table, count with the baby. There are several bowls and pairs of chopsticks on the table. If the child is older, you can also do addition and subtraction with the child.

In short, let children build a sense of numbers in daily life and games, and lay a good foundation for children to learn math well in the future.

As long as parents are familiar with Montessori's early education theory system, parents can let their children learn while playing in the process of taking care of their children, so that they will not miss all the sensitive periods in their growth.