Generally speaking, every child speaks differently in the morning and evening. Some children can speak single words at the age of seven or eight months, and simple sentences at the age of one. Some children have normal intellectual development, but they can't speak until they are three or four years old, and some even later. Most girls speak earlier than boys. Some parents think that language development can predict children's future intellectual development, and children who speak early will have higher intellectual level. Of course, children speak early and are very popular; This is what every parent wants to see. However, do children have to be smart when they speak? I'm afraid this question remains to be discussed.

Before children can speak, they should develop related physiological and sensory abilities. Physiologically, the vocal process is like this: the lungs-vibrating vocal cords-make sounds through the tongue, hard palate and soft palate. In addition, the brain also needs to receive and transmit information. Therefore, children must cooperate with visual observation, feel the existence of objects or people, learn that lips and tongue can make different sounds in different parts, organize all sensory experiences, connect the mouth with the brain, and then say meaningful words. We all know that the brain development of newborn babies is not perfect, but it will change greatly soon. Therefore, in the first few years after birth, the weight of the baby's brain will increase rapidly, becoming twice as much as that at birth, and the brain activity is twice as much as that of adults. These changes will affect the baby's future development of thinking ability.

Before you speak, develop your physical and sensory abilities.

Before learning to speak, children must develop related physiological and sensory abilities. Physiologically, the process of vocalization is as follows: lung (airflow) → vibrating vocal cords → vocalization through tongue, hard jaw and soft jaw. In addition, we also need the brain to receive and transmit information, so the baby must cooperate with visual observation, feel the existence of objects or people, learn to make different sounds in different parts of the lips and tongue, organize all sensory experiences, connect the mouth with the brain, and then say meaningful words.

The brain development of newborn babies is not complete, but it will change greatly in the near future. Therefore, in the first few years after birth, the baby's brain will weigh twice as much as when it was born, and its brain activity will be twice as much as that of adults. At this time, the brain capacity activity is not to grow new brain cells, but to develop trillions of connections or pathways between cells, which will affect the development of baby's thinking and learning ability in the future.

Interestingly, parents' genes do not determine how these neural pathways will be connected. On the contrary, it is the experience of sight, hearing, touch and feeling accumulated by the baby before the age of 3, which can strengthen and shape the detailed nerve connection and affect the child's lifelong learning. In addition, neural connections that have not been used for a long time are likely to be lost if they are not strengthened or used in children's learning experience; So if you give your baby more environmental stimuli to strengthen the connections of these neurons, you can keep these connections active.

10 wisdom of children

Are children who talk early smarter? For a long time, intelligence quotient (IQ) test is an index and tool mainly used to measure people's intelligence, which limits people's intelligence to the abilities of language, space, logic and mathematics. However, the emergence of emotional quotient (EQ) overturns the myth that high IQ means high achievement. Professor Zhuang, who has studied creative learning and potential development for many years, puts forward 10 kinds of wisdom that children can strengthen before the age of 6, which outlines the scope of human wisdom more completely and clearly lets parents know that there is more than one kind of human wisdom. The so-called wisdom means that every part is developed in a balanced and excellent way.

1. Choice wisdom: People will face many choices in their life. However, children should not only care about their parents' expectations, but also follow social norms, which leads many people to lose their judgment. However, parents can cultivate their children's right to choose through games in daily life.

2. Create wisdom: Creativity is one of the most important competitiveness of society, and it is also the wisdom that IQ can't measure. If children grow up in a creative environment, rich creativity will continue.

3. Learning intelligence: Since knowledge will be accumulated through learning, it is helpful to improve children's learning ability by cultivating efficient learning methods from an early age.

4. Use wisdom: It is also one of the important abilities to apply the learned wisdom to life, because learning is to input knowledge into the brain, while application is to use, and the way and time of application are also the scope of using wisdom.

5. Language intelligence: that is, communication, reading and writing. But hosts, screenwriters and writers all have such wisdom, but these three abilities do not necessarily exist at the same time.

6. Logical and mathematical intelligence: that is, arithmetic and logical intelligence are the main detection criteria in IQ test.

7. Spatial or visual intelligence: People with this intelligence are quite sensitive to space and vision.

8. Sports wisdom: Being able to master body movements and give full play to their abilities, such as athletes and stuntmen.

9. Musical intelligence: the ability to create music and perform various musical arts.

10. Interpersonal wisdom: wisdom in dealing with interpersonal and public relations.

When children are one to two years old, they mainly develop two kinds of languages, one is receptive language, or understanding language, and the other is productive language, which is our real speech. The first receptive language has developed, and children around one year old can respond to some of their parents' languages. For example, he can understand "drink water", "open the door" and "put it down" and act accordingly. 18 to 20 months old children begin to "create language" by themselves. He forms a set of words to express or react, such as "drink water, mom" to express "mom, I want to drink water". After that, on the basis of understanding the language, I can basically express accurate sentences by the age of two.

What parents should pay attention to is that the process of language development is very different. When a child may have been able to express short sentences clearly; Another child of the same age is still babbling, or can only say a few similar words, and sometimes even his parents can't explain the specific meaning. However, this does not mean that children who speak early must be smart. Many children with normal intelligence or high intelligence develop their language later. This is not a special case, and children's intelligence cannot be judged only by the time they speak.

Today's children get more language stimulation, and the stimulation of various media, computers, television or early education institutions and kindergartens is much more than that of the previous generation. This stimulates more communication between the mouth and the brain, and may lead to earlier speech. Then there will be many side effects, such as more communication opportunities and more stimulation, which will be more conducive to the accumulation of children's vocabulary. But to judge whether a child is smart, many factors should be considered, such as language, movement, thinking, social interaction and so on. Therefore, children's talking is just a manifestation. We should consider the differences of individual development, not from point to area, but must combine all aspects of future development.

The first thing a child says may be different.

The development of children's pronunciation usually starts with relatively easy sounds, and then gradually develops to more difficult pronunciations. Most studies have pointed out that bilabial sounds developed earlier, and the tip of the tongue and the root of the tongue came earlier than labial teeth sounds and prelingual sounds, but generally speaking, most of the sounds should have developed generally before the age of 5. Therefore, the first word a child can say may be different for everyone, but the pronunciation is similar.

Say it early ≠ There is wisdom in the brain.

So what's the difference between children who speak eight to nine months early? Zhang believes that many children speak earlier now because modern children receive more language stimuli, such as TV or nursery environment stimuli, which are much more brought to grandparents than in the past.

Because there are more stimuli, the connection between the mouth and the brain is faster, so it has nothing to do with the development of intelligence, because after connection, it does not mean that the future accumulation is positive, but it has many advantages, because there are more opportunities for communication, more stimuli and faster vocabulary accumulation, but it is not absolutely equal to whether the brain is smart or not. To be sure, children with more stimulation will connect faster and more than children with less stimulation.

Bilingual more brain stimulation

Some parents may ask, is it more exciting for children to accept two languages at the same time? So can these stimuli have a positive impact on children? Zhang said that the current research points out that there is no such big difference, but if children are mixed-race, the development of language blocks in their brains may be different. Because Chinese is a hieroglyph and English is a phonetic combination, the areas used in the brain are slightly different, and there may be more places to stimulate, but no research has pointed out how different it will be.

Give different stimuli according to the child's talent.

In order to develop children's brain language blocks, Zhang suggested that parents should rely on their children's abilities. Some children are really naturally sensitive to language. Listen to adults often chanting, you can follow them, or learn to sing quickly. At this time, parents can give their children more stimulation according to their talents, so that the more they practice, the more skilled they are.

However, if children can't absorb it well, the effect of barely learning bilingualism is that Chinese is not good and English is not good. Parents are advised to choose a language and let their children concentrate on their studies. Doctors usually advise them to choose Chinese instead of English. Otherwise, after children start school life in the future, they are likely to have difficulties in adapting, such as not understanding what the teacher said in class, not understanding textbooks, and interpersonal problems.

Because Zhang also advocates that there is more than one kind of cleverness, it is impossible to judge that a child is smarter than others just by speaking early, so she also suggests that parents spend more time observing their children and give them nutrition according to their talents, but don't forget to give them other stimuli to make other areas of their brains develop in a balanced way.

Accumulate vocabulary through interaction

The average child's vocabulary accumulation speed is similar. When he is more than 2 years old, there will be many sentences at the age of 3, and the vocabulary accumulation speed of each child is different. However, Zhang said that most children in kindergarten have the same vocabulary accumulation, while some foreign scholars pointed out that the interactive dialogue between parents and children can further improve children's vocabulary.

Both parents hope that their children can speak as soon as possible and communicate accurately with others, but once we understand the development of language, we may not be so one-sided in thinking that "children will be smart later if they speak early", mainly because they are stimulated more than the previous generation or their peers, so that children can express themselves earlier. However, to judge whether a child is smart, we need to consider many factors such as language, movement, thinking, social interaction and so on.