This is a popular topic among young parents in recent years. In cities, parents born after 80s and 90s pay more and more attention to early education.

Early childhood education and intellectual development involve the professional knowledge of children's psychological and behavioral development. At present, the market of early education is chaotic, irregular and unprofessional. Early education institutions like mushrooms after rain have different qualifications and higher fees.

So, is early education really useful?

The answer is yes.

Research data at home and abroad show that reasonable early education does promote children's intellectual development.

However, how to do it is not so mysterious.

What children need most is always the close companionship of their parents. If you are a parent who intends to give early education to your child, you can take time out to accompany your child every day. In fact, you can refer to the following methods to play with children according to their stage characteristics and promote their intellectual and psychological development in happy parent-child communication.

You can do the following at home according to your child's age:

1. Pay attention to mother-to-child communication. Breastfeeding is the first and best way of mother-to-child communication.

Parents hold their babies every day, talk to them and smile.

3. Gradually learn to recognize the meaning of different cries of babies, appease emotions in time, and meet the needs of babies, such as breastfeeding on demand.

4. Short-term prone exercise can be performed 1 hour after feeding, and passive exercise can be performed 1 ~ 2 times a day.

5. Touch the baby properly, let the newborn look at people's faces or bright toys, listen to pleasant ringtones and music, and promote the development of their senses.

1. Talk and laugh with your baby emotionally, respond to your baby's voice in time, and emphasize eye contact.

2. Exercise the baby's head and neck movement and control ability through prone and vertical holding exercises.

3. Moderately increase auditory and visual stimuli. For example, listening to sweet music, noisy toys, and using bright toys to attract the baby's attention and tracking.

3 ~ 6 months:

1. Establish a safe parent-child attachment relationship, respond to the baby's demand signal in a timely and effective manner, and parents should take care of and raise the baby themselves.

2. Play more parent-child games with your baby, such as looking in the mirror, hiding from cats and finding the source of sound.

3. Create a rich language environment, talk to your baby more, imitate your baby's pronunciation and encourage your baby's pronunciation.

4. Help and encourage the baby to turn over freely and practice sitting posture properly, so that the baby can reach out and grasp various objects with different textures and promote the development of hand-eye coordination.

1. Parents should accompany and pay more attention to their babies, expand the scope of activities while ensuring their safety, and encourage their babies to get in touch with the external environment and people.

2. Always call the baby's name, say the names of things at home, and cultivate the baby's ability to understand the language. Guide the baby to pronounce "Baba" and "Mom" to improve the interest in pronunciation.

3. Help the baby to practice sitting and climbing independently and help the underarm jump; Practice hand-to-hand coordination and finger grasping, such as handing toys, eating biscuits and other foods with your hands, reaching for toys in the distance, tearing paper, etc. Exercise hand-eye coordination.

4. Teach your baby to identify family members and common items.