If you look at early education according to this understanding, then you will not play a real role in children's early education.
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Why do children go to early education?
Many people think that early education is to let children learn something. In fact, early education in the true sense does not emphasize what the baby learns, but promotes the baby's brain development through external sensory stimulation.
This kind of sensory stimulation is mainly realized through sports, activities and games. The full name of "early education" should be "early physical education"
0-3 years old is the most important period for children's brain development.
1) The baby's brain weighs 400g at birth, which accounts for 1/4 of the adult's brain. By 6 months, the weight of the brain accounts for 50% of the weight of the adult brain, and at the age of 3, the proportion reaches 80%.
2) At birth, there are about 50 trillion synaptic connections, which is equivalent to110 of adults. When children are 3 years old, the number of synaptic connections is about 1000 trillion, which is roughly twice that of adults.
By the age of 14, the number of synaptic connections in children is basically the same as that in adults. At the age of 3- 14, synapses begin to be pruned.
Synapses that have been studied and stimulated will not disappear, and those that have not been stimulated will be eliminated. Therefore, if children receive more stimulation at an early stage, they will be smarter and more conducive to future development.
There is a sensitive period (also called critical period) for the growth and development of neurons in the human brain. If they develop well during this period, they will often produce unexpected good results.
On the contrary, once it has adverse effects during this period, it may have irreversible adverse effects on people's intelligence.
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What is the best age for early education?
From the age of 0, the key intelligence of each stage is different. Only by grasping the critical period of children's intelligent development and relying on their own growth sensitivity can talents be effectively stimulated.
And this best period, once missed, can never be made up. Stimulating talents must start at the age of 0, which is determined by the particularity of children's development at this stage. These particularities are realized in the following ways:
1, plasticity of brain development
The plasticity of the brain is the potential adaptability of the brain to the environment, which is a lifelong characteristic of human beings. The younger the age, the greater the plasticity.
Before the age of three, especially in the first year of birth, the brain develops most rapidly. External stimuli from the age of zero will become the direction of brain development.
Behavioral habits formed in the early days will be woven into neural networks, but it will be much more difficult to change the habits that have been formed in the future.
2. The initiative of children's growth
When a child comes into this world, he has all the development potential. Although he is weak and immature, he has the inner strength to grow actively.
Therefore, adults should create conditions in time to support children's learning and development, and seize the opportunity to fully develop their abilities before their children are three years old.
3. The foundation of children's development
Studies have shown that there are a series of key developmental stages or sensitive stages in the process of brain development, also known as the critical period of learning.
The best example is language learning. Children who grow up in a normal social environment can easily master the spoken form of their mother tongue.
Although the critical period of human learning can last from birth to adolescence, the critical period of learning the most basic emotions, behaviors and skills of human beings begins before the age of three.
4. The order of development
All aspects of children's growth and development are carried out in the order of genetic arrangement.
For example, in the field of sports, every child's body movements follow the order of looking up, turning over, sitting, climbing, standing, walking, running and jumping. Although different children have different months, the order is no exception.
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How should parents correctly understand early education?
As parents, we should have objective judgment. We shouldn't be bad because others say it badly, especially for early education of children.
Parents should first clarify the purpose of early education, and then objectively analyze the shortcomings of children's education now, and what parents can do to change the status quo. Only when parents have this kind of reflective consciousness can education be effective.
1, the role of parents is irreplaceable, and early education is the education of parents first.
The beginning of early education is not realized by the outside world. At first, early education for children began with parents, and it can even be extended to prenatal education during pregnancy.
Husband and wife should change from the consciousness of two-person world to a family of three. Parents should have a correct judgment on early education, don't blindly follow it, don't refuse it at will, and don't let it go.
The process of children growing up is also the process of parents growing up. Parents are the driving force for children's growth. Without parents, there is no education.
2. Early education is everywhere, and it is good at using everything available in the family.
Doing early education for children is not necessarily buying a bunch of early education products. Every family is different, and so are individual children. Therefore, early education should be carried out according to its own conditions and characteristics.
For example, children's language expression ability, if parents are good at expressing, can be carried out through reading, storytelling, daily communication and so on.
For example, the fine movements of children's fingers can also be exercised by origami. Children's early education needs parents to think more, and lazy parents will only find reasons.
3. Objectively choose early education institutions and correctly understand the role of institutions in early education.
In the process of children's early education, some aspects need the help of external forces, which requires the supplement of early education institutions.
Therefore, it is necessary to start early education from the birth of children.
Professional early education institutions have a scientific and systematic curriculum system, which will make the curriculum design diverse and interesting for babies of different ages, and constantly adjust and optimize it in practice.