Potential, as its name implies, is a kind of hidden and special potential ability. Humans have this potential in infancy. Medical research shows that the development of human brain tissue is mature, and 80% is basically stereotyped before the age of six. It can be said that the intelligence of zero-year-old children is infinite. The story of Sima Guang's smashing a jar to save people and the saying of "growing up, from three years old to old" are the summary of this phenomenon. According to the test of psychologists, the potential of human beings is more than ten times that of the existing surface capacity, that is to say, a person's ability is like an iceberg in the sea, 90% submerged in water, and 10% exposed to water. Therefore, if children's innate potential is not developed in time, ignored or suppressed, it will lead to the destruction or burial of future social pillars. Therefore, parents and teachers should seize the early childhood of life, take various forms and develop in various ways. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the topic of children's potential and stimulation.
First, the objective existence of life potential
In daily life, news such as "child prodigy" or "young college students" often appears in newspapers. Some of these prodigies have amazing extraordinary abilities or some special skills in language, mathematics, music and style. The emergence of such news shows that the potential of these children has been brought into play by teachers or parents intentionally or unintentionally. We also found that as far as language ability is concerned, the more children learn in primary school, the better. It is difficult for an average adult to achieve proficiency after studying a foreign language for ten years. However, it is almost natural and easy for six-year-old children to learn foreign languages, and their proficiency in foreign languages has reached a certain level. Families who immigrated from other provinces and abroad feel the same way. Children can quickly learn the local language and integrate into local life, while adults "can't change their local accent and lose all their hair."
Plants also have potential. According to the data provided by agricultural experts, at present, a rice plant can only bear about 120 grains on average, but through microscopic observation, it is found that there are still a large number of buds that have not yet blossomed, which can bear more than 1000 grains. However, due to many reasons such as environmental technology, the life potential of rice has not been fully exerted, and we can only harvest one tenth of the fruit.
Nowadays, medical experts have put forward new views on human life span. They think that the normal life span of human beings should be around 120 years old, but now people often think that it is strange to live to 70 years old, which also shows that the original potential of life endowed by nature has not been fully developed.
Second, the factors affecting children's potential play
1. The growth of babies needs to return to nature. The social life of modern human beings is gradually away from nature, which violates the natural nature of human beings. First of all, some mothers refuse to breast-feed their babies in order to keep fit, so that newborn babies can hardly feel the taste of nature except artificial milk. In fact, mother is an ideal place for babies to learn the sense of smell, especially the smell of breast milk, which changes rapidly after delivery, while the unchanging smell of artificial milk makes the baby's taste dull; Secondly, in modern families, children have too few opportunities to contact the outside world. The voices of mothers and family members are often drowned out by home lights, TV lights, radios, TV stereos and air conditioners. Naturally, children rarely have their own auditory world.
Modern society is full of prosperity and progress, but it still shows unnatural and inhuman aspects. There are also mental patients, psychological disorders, marital disintegration, murder and violence. Even adults can't adapt to this environment, how can children grow naturally?
Modern tools have changed and improved human life. This modern life makes people more dependent on tools, but it leads to the gradual degradation of human instinct (such as computer typing and manual calligraphy). Tools are more powerful than people. More and more advanced tools promote the continuous degradation of human beings, but also hinder the development of children's potential.
It is generally believed that children's intelligence grows with age, so people expect their children to be sensible and smart when they grow up. In fact, this is a serious misunderstanding. The improvement or decrease of children's learning ability is just the opposite of common sense. This magical learning ability in early childhood will become more and more dull over time if it is not brought into play in time and actively trained. Of course, this does not mean that old people are more stupid and less sensible than young people. On the contrary, it shows that the learning ability of the elderly gradually declines with the development of the brain. People's praise for the wisdom of experts and scholars is actually a praise for their extraordinary learning ability. Therefore, with the accumulation of age and experience, they usually have more knowledge and insight than ordinary people.
In early childhood education, some people argue that physical exercise is more important than brain exercise. As mentioned above, the brain is the fastest growing baby, so the most noteworthy thing in early childhood should be brain education. By the time they enter the primary school stage, the learning ability of children's brains is almost stereotyped, so we must pay close attention to the basic training of children's brain education, otherwise we will miss the learning period of children and cause irreparable backwardness in learning ability.
6. Establish a correct view of children's wisdom education. Early childhood education is a long-term plan, which can never be achieved overnight, nor can it be quick and quick. At the same time, we should realize that not every child grows at the same speed, some are fast, some are slow, and their abilities are different-some are longer than abstract theories and some are imaginative. The same three-year-old children, some have the strength of five-year-old children in some learning abilities, but on the other hand, they still lag behind the two-year-old stage; Some children have a balanced learning development. Although it has no outstanding advantages, it has the strength of a three-year-old child. Therefore, we must teach according to the characteristics of children.
Third, ways to stimulate potential
The so-called stimulating potential is to restore the original ability of life through stimulation, promote its sound natural growth through stimulation, provide sufficient growth conditions for life, stimulate its instinct at the same time, and give full play to people's natural potential as much as possible.
In the process of stimulating children's potential, we must raise awareness and establish a correct concept of early childhood education in order to successfully stimulate children's potential.
1. Try to restore the natural instinct of human beings deliberately, let children try to return to the original instinct of human beings from various unnatural environments, and at the same time control the gradually degraded instinct by stimulating all the wisdom under human potential.
2. Strengthen brain education and perception training. The education of children before the age of six should focus on brain education. At this stage, children don't care about monotonous repetition. Their own rich imagination can turn monotonous information into interesting information. Children can't absorb long speeches because they can't do reasoning. But for short messages, even if they are repeated repeatedly, they will not be bored, because they adopt intuitive consciousness in learning and acceptance, so they will not make impatient judgments because of the existence of past memories. I just feel that in the rapid and constant changes, they are constantly learning directly. Children like funny actions repeated in cartoons, especially short and repeated TV advertisements. It is this intuitive training that is most suitable for learning brain waves.
3, children's ancient poetry recitation training. Some people think that children can't even read, how can they digest difficult ancient poems? In fact, poetry is not only content and artistic conception, but also has another function-the rhythm and rhythm of sound. Rhythm belongs to subconscious learning, which is imperceptible. Although ancient poetry recitation can't produce utilitarian value for children, it can master the rhythm of poetry and directly input this beautiful melody into the subconscious, which will directly affect a person's behavior and speech temperament.
4. Music education for children. Can children and babies understand classical music that adults can't understand? In fact, music itself is not used for understanding, but for feeling and intuitive absorption. Let the children listen to beautiful music. Over time, its melody will penetrate into their subconscious, and their actions, language and even words will naturally reveal a beautiful sense of rhythm during their growth.
5. Language ability education. In order to make children's language ability develop smoothly, children must be allowed to speak more and listen more. If children's gestures and expressions are combined, their language expression ability will be richer and more substantial. So teachers and mothers should talk to their children as much as possible and answer their questions as seriously as possible. In addition, children should be reminded of their reactions to the surrounding sounds. Usually let children play with other children and try to increase various experiences.
6. Mathematics ability education. Besides singing and counting in sequence, numbers are also related to length, width, depth, speed, time and weight. In addition, the graphic concepts such as triangle, square and rectangle and the spatial concepts such as front, back, left and right, up and down, far and near all belong to the category of numbers. We should focus on counting, correctly calculate things and numbers, see how many groups there are, judge how many numbers there are, judge which series to count from front to back, read and write numbers, and simply add and subtract numbers. The above educational content can be quickly realized through flexible and interesting digital games.
7. Creativity education. Creativity is one of the unique spiritual activities of human beings. In this respect, children are much better than adults who have lost their thinking flexibility. They often come up with unexpected answers to a question, but adults think that children are naive and immature, and ignore them. In fact, naive proposals often contain great enlightenment.
So pay more attention to the novel answers that children imagine. When children ask whimsical questions or answers, we should listen carefully and respect their speeches, because these are the creative abilities of their young minds to imagine the world.
8. Social life ability education. The most obvious change at the age of three or four is the continuous growth of social life ability. Their positive personality makes them look cheerful, enthusiastic and humorous. Although I am emotionally unstable, I have begun to know how to care for others, take care of children younger than myself, and have my own opinions and self-confidence in doing things. At this time, I should try my best to let them express their opinions when making or deciding about children, and try to listen to his opinions.
9. Sports ability education. Sports ability can not only exercise the body, but also cultivate children's endurance, willpower, leadership, coordination, judgment and delicate thinking. Appropriate exercise training can effectively stimulate the potential of young children, and children aged 3-4 can do the following exercises:
(1) Body balance training, standing on one foot or walking on tiptoe, adjusting running speed, making an emergency stop and making sharp turns.
(2) Practice the high jump of thirty or forty centimeters.
(3) Practice playing swing games and riding tricycles.
(4) Finger dexterity training. Practice unbuttoning clothes, drawing circles or squares, folding paper and folding about ten pieces of wood, learning to eat with chopsticks, cutting things with scissors, throwing balls and catching them, and tying your own shoelaces.
In short, children are rich in learning ability, which should be stimulated in a planned way, so that the next generation can have enough wisdom, fully digest and continuously enrich the accumulated knowledge of mankind, and lay a solid foundation for the future of the Chinese nation and all mankind.