I often meet parents who ask me, saying that their baby is not paying attention, can’t sit still for a while, doesn’t eat seriously, and loves to run around. They are worried that the baby will always be like this in the future.
Mom and Dad’s worries are reasonable. Concentration is interlinked with many abilities, such as memory, logical thinking ability, body coordination ability, etc. It is not too much to say that it is related to the child’s ability in the future life.
If children’s attention is not protected and cultivated, when they are young, they do not eat well and do not like reading picture books. When they grow up, they may develop into not listening carefully in class, being careless in exams, procrastinating in doing things, and even affecting their athletic ability.
0 ~ 3 years old is the golden stage of baby’s brain development, and it is also a good time to cultivate children’s concentration.
You may think that it is very complicated and difficult to cultivate children’s concentration. In fact, as long as the right method is used, many common scenes in life can cultivate children’s concentration anytime and anywhere.
Play with toys, tidy up toys
Children like to play with toys. When children play with toys seriously, their attention is all focused on one point, which is actually instinctively exercising their attention.
In addition, after playing with toys, tidying up toys is also a good opportunity to cultivate children’s attention.
After the children play well, parents can take the children and tidy up the toys together and put them back in their original positions. If the toys are too big for the child to hold, let the child hold some that he can hold.
This tidying-up action can improve the children’s organization and form a sense of rules from an early age.
But does this have something to do with concentration in what?
This is because both organization and concentration are controlled by the same part of the brain. The better the organization of the child, the better the corresponding logical ability and concentration.
On the contrary, if the home is noisy and full of toys and sundries, children are easily distracted in such an environment and easily lost when they grow up.
Tear paper with children,
Many parents have encountered children tearing books and have a headache. Of course, the first reaction after seeing them is to stop them immediately.
In fact, proper making children [naughty] also helps to cultivate children’s concentration.
When a child tears a book, he needs to slowly use his hand to force it in both directions, and to make a unified and coordinated effort to successfully tear the paper open. For children, this is a very delicate and complicated movement, which can well exercise cerebellum and concentration.
Of course, this is not an act of encouraging tearing books. When children tear books, their parents can replace them with discarded paper and tell them [if you want to play, your parents can tear the paper with you].
Mom and Dad can join their children and study how together to tear the paper more finely, such as tearing the paper into thinner pieces of paper, tearing the paper into various shapes, etc.
When children finish these tasks seriously, they will also better mobilize their attention.
Concentration is the basis for a child’s all-round development. A child with good concentration will also have better development in his memory, logical thinking ability, etc.
During the period when the child is 0 ~ 3 years old, we can do a lot of things in life to cultivate the child’s ability in this field.