I went to Zhihu to search for information, went to the forum to read the posts of mothers, and found that one mother suggested that "it is a good idea to attend classes in various early education centers", which won my heart. After all, judging from the photos of friends circle, the environment of the early education center is not too bad, and there are toys with picture books, which are especially suitable for foggy days and rainy days.
So I quickly contacted several early education institutions, all of which were about experience classes, and they took their babies with great interest. They have xxx mice, xx mice, xx gardens, xx shellfish and xx animals. (The full name is not written here. If there are similarities, it is purely coincidental. )
Classes in early education institutions are generally divided into physical education class, music, art and cooking, as well as individual Lego enlightenment classes, picture books and so-called whole brain development classes. Children of different months are suitable for different courses. Let's talk about what we have experienced in detail.
Mainly to help children develop great sports, the teacher took a group of children to exercise with various instruments in the classroom. Take the wooden bridge, drill the tunnel, climb the slide and step on the balance board. At the end of the class, the teacher will also take out a cloth made of hot air balloons. Parents will pull the edges together, throw the cloth on it, and form a big hole below, so that the baby can shuttle under the cloth hole.
Personal feelings:
The atmosphere is still very happy, and the sports equipment is also very complete, which is difficult to find at home or in the community.
In addition to exercising children, I think it is more important to exercise me, because many projects need the cooperation of parents, such as changing equipment, hugging and squatting for a while, all of which require arm strength and waist and abdomen strength. The baby is not sweating, so I'm tired first. Who told me that my boy was 8 kg when he was born, 1 22 kg when he was half a year old?
Parents sit in a circle with their babies, and the teacher trains their children's intonation with a musical instrument. Give a variety of props, such as bells and drums, and let the children play according to the rhythm. Or give each child a silk scarf, let parents play hide-and-seek on their children's faces, or throw the silk scarf up for children to pick up. Then everyone will sing English songs together and walk and dance to the music. Change the content of a game in five minutes.
Personal feelings:
There are many props used in music class, and the teacher is as busy as catching a train. Some babies hold bells and refuse to return them. The teacher pulled it twice and didn't pull it back. The baby just cried. Some children don't want to sit still and run around with toys. Music, musical instruments, children's crying, crying ... one after another in the classroom.
The art class mainly focuses on the five senses experience. Teachers will use sponges, combs, steel balls, silk, sandpaper and other tools of different materials to touch children, making them feel rough, smooth, soft and hard. Children will also be exposed to different painting tools, such as crayons, chalk and pigments. Children will also be given a blank piece of paper to doodle on.
Even if you play with paint, you will draw with tools of different materials, such as using a sponge brush, rolling paint on the wheels of a car, pressing with a fork, and even drawing with your hands and fingers. After painting, the teacher will hang up all the children's paintings and let each child talk about what he drew and how he felt.
Personal feelings:
Personally, I like art class best, and I feel it opens a new door. What was originally unremarkable can play so many tricks with children.
The biggest gain in art class is to know the rules of children's graffiti painting, starting with drawing points and then drawing lines at will. Don't force children to draw like children during graffiti, but pay attention to communicate with him: Baby, what are you drawing? Why did you draw this? In particular, don't habitually blurt out to judge the ugliness of children's paintings, because art itself is not right or wrong.
The only trouble is that Eva likes to paint her hands and feet, and her clothes will be covered with all kinds of pigments. She always takes her home after class and washes her feet from head to toe.
Seeing the word "whole brain development", do you think your baby will become a super brain after class like me? But the actual class process is very frustrating.
The teacher will take out a lot of flashcards with red dots. At first, he will take out two cards, one at 3 o'clock and the other at 8 o'clock. Then he will ask the child what time it is. Then draw out two cards, one is 12 and the other is 18, and ask the children to point out the extra cards.
The teacher means to tell the children the concept of more and less, but the baby under 2 years old has no concept of counting at all. Who can tell you which of these secrets is more at once? Later, there was the content setting of singing English songs and three-character classics, which was really a whole brain development!
Personal feelings:
Don't ask me how I feel, I don't feel! The whole class is stupid, so am I.
The teacher explained that the flashcard is to train the child's visual perception, so that the picture can form an impression in his mind, and the next time the child sees it, he can react at the first time. However, I really can't agree with this training method that separates understanding from memory.
After I went home, I specially checked the internet, only to find that the form of flash card has long been abandoned in Europe and America. Mechanical memory does not mean real understanding, but may crowd out the learning resources of the brain.
After the experience class, it's up to the course consultant to sell you the course. I found many bugs from chatting with them and saw their tricks to create anxiety.
Trap 1, your child is not sociable, come to class more often!
My baby plays in the early education center, or plays by himself in class, ignoring other children. The curriculum consultant caught this point and said that children are not good at socializing and need to be brought to class for exercise.
Come on, tell me, just because children under 2 don't play with others, they will label you: poor social skills, and I promise not to kill you.
Why don't children go to kindergarten as soon as they learn to walk and talk, but wait until they are 3 years old? Because people's sociality is not innate, a child can only distinguish himself from others when he is 2 years old. Before the age of 3, he could only walk around in a physical space and never had complicated social skills.
Different children have different personalities, some like to play by themselves, and they like to play by themselves, which does not mean that there is something wrong with their social skills!
Sure, do you think it's good to put the children together to play? Yes, they need to learn the skills of getting along with others, because they can't control themselves at first. It's normal to hit people and grab toys. Playing together and learning to solve problems by themselves will help them develop their social skills. But this is the result, not the cause.
Trap two, your child's concentration is not enough, so take more classes!
After the experience class, the teacher's evaluation of my baby is: strong sports ability, but insufficient concentration, concentration is very important, so it is very helpful to start training from an early age!
This truth is really convincing! I almost had a crush!
Then I consulted a neurologist. He told me that babies under 1 don't concentrate for more than 15 seconds. /kloc-babies under 0/year and a half can concentrate on things of interest for more than 5 minutes. The average concentration time of 2-year-old children is about 7 minutes, while that of 5-year-old children is only 14 minutes. Eva's personality will also determine the length of attention time.
Generally, after the age of 3, you can see how the child's concentration is. If he is active and has insufficient concentration, his parents should guide him. But if a child under 2 years old can concentrate quietly for half an hour, you really have to worry.
Trap three, there is no discount for buying 20 classes, 50% discount for buying one year, and one class is free.
Anxiety is caught, packaging is in place, and finally the key point is to look at the price concessions. People around me who give children early education classes buy no less than 60 classes.
In most early education institutions, the average price of a single class is around 150-200 yuan. If you buy 20 classes, there is no discount. But if you buy more than 60 classes, the price of a single class is almost half of the original price, and there are extra classes.
In addition to buying more and offering more discounts, outdated price increases are also common routines. On the day of the experience class, the registration discount is the biggest, and there is no discount when you go home and think about it. There is also a "countdown to price increase", which implies that you continue to attend classes at the end of each year. You can often see such posters.
Some informal early education institutions may have bought course packages for two or three years and spent tens of thousands of dollars, but they suddenly closed down halfway and people went to the building. Who can you ask for money from?
Besides, you think 60 classes are too many. In fact, taking time off may also deduct class hours. Some classes, such as cooking, will be deducted for two hours, and outdoor activities will be deducted for two hours, which will waste a lot of hours.
Many early education institutions are also popular in "evaluating" children, affirming some indicators and then denying some indicators. From the perspective of "need to discipline", parents' anxiety and even threatening parents not to teach their children is delaying their development. If you love your children, you should give them lessons as soon as possible.
Having said that, am I pulling weeds for everyone? No, I'm just particularly opposed to unprofessional and interesting early education institutions.
I picked so many thorns in the early education class. Should I deny the role of early education? Not really! On the contrary, I strongly advocate early education.
In my opinion, early education classes. Early education is very necessary, but early education classes vary from person to person. It is a time-consuming thing for many families to attend early education classes. More importantly, it costs money!
If your family's financial ability can support it, the early education institutions are close to home, the teachers in the experience class can pay attention to the children's feelings, and the children themselves like it, then you can take your children to play.
But even if you attend early childhood classes, don't try to give up your children and give them to others. Taking an early education class is just the beginning, not the end. Because the best early education teachers are not in early education classes, but parents themselves. The foundation of early education is parents' own growth.
Early education is not early education, but early education.
Education in advance is to instill knowledge into children and cultivate them into prodigies.
Early education is to interact with the baby more and stimulate the child from many aspects such as vision, hearing, touch, movement, spatial change and language.
You know, the baby's brain has 65.438+0.4 billion-20 billion neurons. In order to fully develop the brain, the most important thing is to connect neurons and transmit information. The stimulation of the surrounding environment can greatly increase the number of synapses in a child's brain.
From the birth of a child, the simple behaviors of parents feeding, touching, listening and watching the child can be regarded as early education.
1. The first early education begins with breastfeeding.