Sister-in-law said that my little nephew always fidgeted when eating, running around for a while, and simply not delicious for a while. Only cartoons on TV can make him sit there and finish his meal quietly.
Is this scene familiar to many parents? When we don't have time to deal with the pestering baby, when we need the baby to keep quiet and stop making noise, or just like my sister-in-law, we will turn on the mobile phone or TV and play cartoons or other programs that children are interested in.
At present, some programs under the banner of "early education" are popular in the market to promote "the secret of good children's cultivation" to parents. Although it is expensive, many parents are willing to buy it, because parents think that their children can sit quietly as long as they watch the program, so they don't have to bother. Moreover, the children did learn to sing and learn some good habits with TV programs. Why not?
However, from the long-term development of children, is this kind of "early education" really good?
Let's take a look at the conclusion of the American Academy of Pediatrics on this issue: After a lot of research, the American Academy of Pediatrics proposed that children should be restricted from watching TV before the age of two, because watching TV too early may hinder their development.
[Breeze] Why is it not suitable for children to watch TV before they are two years old?
Piaget's cognitive development theory points out that children aged 0-2 are still in the stage of "sensory movement". At this stage, children know and understand the world mainly through the senses of "hearing, hearing, smelling and touching", but at this stage, children still regard things as fleeting sensory impressions, and things depend entirely on their consciousness.
Children need to touch these things to truly realize their existence, and once they lose contact with these things, things don't exist. Children at this stage can't relate different impressions produced in different periods.
Therefore, let the 0-2-year-old baby watch TV, and what he sees is a fast-moving picture, not a meaningful story. For children at this stage, these pictures are just messy information.
However, many parents may say that children do learn a lot from watching TV, imitating and repeating what they hear. It seems that their cognition has made great progress.
Children are indeed born with strong imitation ability, but he can't tell what is on the screen from the real thing, and babies under two years old can't apply what they see on the screen to real life.
This is what psychologists call "video loss phenomenon", that is, the performance after watching the electronic screen is worse than that after watching the real scene.
However, the American Academy of Pediatrics pointed out that. This phenomenon of video loss will gradually weaken after children are two and a half years old, so it is meaningful for children after two and a half years old to watch some educational programs.
Babies are naturally fond of novelty, so their attention dispersion will be high, and they will radiate to the surroundings like umbrellas, because only in this way can children continuously receive information from the world around them and expand their cognitive range.
However, when the same information appears in front of the baby repeatedly, their attention will decline, which means that the child's attention duration is relatively low.
The reason why children like to "watch" TV is because the screen is full of fresh pictures that flash by. In fact, they can't understand the meaning of these pictures. They just like "freshness".
However, "watching a lot" here is usually in hours. It is not a big deal for children to watch for a few minutes, and parents should not be too anxious.
Many families have the habit of turning on the TV while eating, thinking that as long as the children don't watch it, they will be fine. Some studies have pointed out that if preschool children have been active in the "TV background" environment, it is likely to damage their social cognition and socialization behavior.
Montessori said that children are "absorbing" their minds, and they will absorb all the information around them to develop their cognition, but this "absorption" is done unconsciously, so parents can't notice it.
Children's social cognition needs a lot of social interaction, but when we turn on the TV as the background, our attention will be diverted. At this time, we can't communicate and interact effectively with our children.
For a child, his concentration is high. If he finally concentrates on one thing and is often interrupted by music or pictures on TV, he may not be able to develop the ability of continuous thinking, observation and judgment.
A study by the University of Washington pointed out that watching programs that claim to promote infants' intellectual development has no practical effect, but may hinder children's development.
Many studies have also pointed out that for infants, interactive learning with real people is better than learning from TV.
Therefore, in order to teach children "knowledge", parents themselves are teachers. By strengthening effective interaction with children in daily life, you can teach them a lot subtly.
It is not worth the loss to hand over children's education to a flat education project.
[Breeze] How to use TV programs cautiously and effectively?
Children under two years old, try not to let them touch any electronic products.
Children aged 2-3 can watch it within 20 minutes every day and within two hours every week.
Children over 3 years old can discuss a time with their children. For example, 30 minutes a day, or the program time is relatively short, you can stipulate to watch two or three episodes. If the time is longer, you can stipulate to watch one episode.
For children under 3 years old, we should choose some programs with slow transition, simple stories and relatively concise dialogue.
Don't let children watch cartoons with violent plots or vulgar language. Children's imitation ability is very strong, and it is easy to imitate those behaviors and languages in cartoons.
Don't give the child to the screen alone. Although children seem to be completely attracted when watching TV, we also need to interact with children from time to time to guide them to think.
Even when we see some pictures that need to be explained, we can explain them in time.
And watching with the baby can also increase the topics when we chat with the baby and promote the communication between parents and children.
Now there are books around many cartoons. After children are familiar with the characters, we can buy some books for them, which is also a way to cultivate children's interest in reading.
In an episode of Peggy Piggy, Peggy and her friends jumped into the mud. We can tell children that they need to wear raincoats and boots to jump into the mud pit and jump outside.
The next time a child wears shoes and dances on the sofa at home, we can tell him that Peggy is wearing shoes and dancing outside, and we will take off our shoes on the sofa.
We can use some good habits we saw in the program in our daily life, and we can also learn the scenes in cartoons and play games with our babies.
On the one hand, it is necessary to reasonably arrange the time and way for children to watch TV, on the other hand, it is also necessary to provide children with other opportunities for activities.
For example, playing games with children, reading with children, taking children for various outdoor activities and so on.
[Breeze] Write it at the back
If we can achieve the above five points, make more benign arrangements for children to watch TV and take fewer detours, then TV programs can also become "good assistants" for children's development and "topic kings" for parent-child communication.