First, expand cognition
Cognition is the most basic feature that every picture book will have. For younger children, its role is more prominent. This kind of picture books often have simple pictures, bright colors and few words, and sometimes the words will appear in the form of children's songs.
"Hungry Little Snake" can help small class children vividly remember and imagine the colors and shapes of various fruits. The Hungry Caterpillar is also a picture book very suitable for primary and secondary school students. Food and animals are two attractive factors that firmly attract young children. The picture is simple but vivid, and at the same time, it incorporates mathematical experience. The language is simple and easy to learn, which can stimulate children's interest in learning. In this process, children can vividly understand the seemingly strange biological phenomenon that caterpillars become butterflies.
There are also some cognitive picture books suitable for middle and large classes, such as Children's Science Picture Books-Part I? "Human Body", which is a scientific reading book compiled by Japan Learning and Research Society. This series analyzes anthropomorphic scenes from seven aspects: bones, heart and crying. Illustrated with pictures and texts, it makes the boring science education lively and interesting, and stimulates children's interest in further exploring the mysteries of the body while understanding the knowledge of the human body.
Maybe you will say that it can expand children's cognition more than picture books. Cartoons and various cognitive books, including parents' observation and guidance of children in daily life, can realize children's cognition of the unknown world. However, compared with other media, picture books still have incomparable advantages: first, they are more targeted and beneficial than comics (parents now generally report that there are too few excellent comics); Secondly, it is more vivid than cognitive books without plots; Thirdly, it is closer to the children themselves than the parents' preaching. Second, emotional experience.
Emotion is an important part of individual psychological experience, which has the function of establishing, maintaining and changing the relationship between individuals and the outside world. This function is widely regarded as an ability, that is, emotional ability. It mainly includes two aspects: emotional understanding and emotional regulation.
(A) emotional understanding
Studies abroad have found that children's emotional understanding develops rapidly in early childhood. They began to actively participate in social activities in family life, and more importantly, they began to move from family to kindergarten. At this time, they will face an important social task-adapting to kindergarten life and learning to communicate with members outside the family. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to study the cultivation of children's emotional understanding ability. Children's cognition and understanding of emotions can help children know themselves, which is an important prerequisite for training their self-control ability.
Because emotions are internal psychological activities, they are often not easily recognized by children, and it is difficult for parents and teachers to guide them. Picture books can arouse children's resonance with the help of the characters and plots in the book, so that children can compare themselves with the characters in their lives, and then understand the emergence and development of various emotions.
The picture book Children's Emotional Cognition was written by Sarah, a famous British child psychologist. Mandina works in conjunction with early childhood education experts, children's book writers and illustrators. In the form of questions and answers, this series of books helps children understand the performance characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of personal emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, pride, jealousy and concern through simple images and simple nursery rhymes. This set of books can help children fully understand different emotions, understand their own and others' emotions and emotional changes, learn to express their emotions in an appropriate way, and communicate with others better.
(2) Emotional regulation
When it comes to emotional adjustment, everyone will think it is a very difficult thing, let alone children. I don't want to get angry is one of the "first set of children's emotional management picture books in China" imported from New Zealand. The purpose of this series is to let children "clearly understand their feelings, express their feelings in appropriate ways, relieve stress, release themselves, sympathize with others and be willing to listen". Teachers and parents can pass "What are you like when you are angry?" "Why are you angry?" "How to make yourself not angry?" A series of questions guide children to express themselves from their own point of view, imitate the vivid language in picture books, help children try to know, experience, accept and manage their emotions, find their own solutions to problems, and put them into action, thus establishing peaceful and healthy emotions and self-confidence.
Second, the cultivation of social skills.
(A) Self-care ability
After entering a small class, the cultivation of self-care ability has become the primary task for children after entering the park. Ask children to learn to eat by themselves, go to the toilet by themselves, play games by themselves, brush their teeth by themselves, and accomplish many tasks by themselves; For children, it is necessary to understand the challenges and setbacks they face in these processes. Picture books with diverse themes can play an important role in helping children learn various themes. Children can not only experience the experience of the protagonist in the book, but also have recognition and love for themselves. They can also encourage children to have more courage to try new things and further cultivate good living habits and self-care ability.
Two Dolls is a very suitable book for small class children. By comparing the dining situation of two puppies, we can cultivate children's ability to observe things and help them understand the importance of good dining habits.
(2) Feel affection and friendship.
Emotion is a prominent feature of picture books, and it is also a very important factor to attract children. The most powerful thing about picture books is that they can help your children fall in love with reading, and this kind of love is that in the process of learning, in addition to understanding reading, they can also learn love itself. This is a great love, love yourself, love others, love life and love the world.
This wonderful emotional experience also benefits from the "leaving room" of picture books. The difference between a picture book and a comic book mainly lies in the connection between the pictures in the picture book, which is not as compact, continuous and complete as a comic book or a comic book, but leaves a lot of space for children to swim freely and imagine, so that this feeling can last for a long time.
Runaway rabbits can always make children feel a kind of peace and quiet happiness. Because almost every young child has fantasized about leaving home like Barney in the game to test his mother's love in this way, and this little rabbit's experience, like their own game, has brought them a wonderful sense of security. Other descriptions of family relationships include Guess how much I love you, Little Bear and Best Dad, My Dad, My Home is the Zoo and so on.
"Little Blue and Yellow" describes that two colors become another color because of friendship, so that children can understand the relationship between colors while feeling friendship. Remember the tears left by Xibao when the giraffe wanted to go home in Send You Home with Love? Yes, how I hope that good friends can be together forever!
(3) Brave
After all, children are children, and there are always some things in life that will make them feel scared and worried. "If I lose my sense of smell": "Oh, my God, I left my sense of smell with the doctor. I want to go there and get it back at once, but my mother says it's too late today, but it's too late tomorrow. I can't sleep without smelling. " Mom and dad may not realize how attached their children are to toys, but I believe that through the thrilling imagination and adventure of the little hero, we will certainly be able to understand the anxiety and worry in the children's hearts ... This story involves the psychological "separation anxiety", that is, the indifference and fear of children when they are separated from the objects they are attached to. This kind of anxiety will happen to every child to some extent, especially when small classes enter the park. If these anxieties are not solved, they will often turn into mental illness. At this time, the only thing we can do is to hold the child tightly and tell him: let's go find Sniff! ……
Similar picture books include: I'm so worried, crocodiles are afraid of dentists, Tom gets lost, crocodiles fall in love with giraffes and so on. When we accompany our children to read these picture books, they will feel courage. Maybe you can find the courage you need from them.
(D) sense of cooperation
Cooperation is an indispensable factor for children's future development, adaptation to society and foothold in society. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate children's sense of cooperation and ability from an early age. Now most children are only children. They lack the experience of living with other children and seldom realize the pleasure and success brought by cooperative behavior. They often lack cooperation consciousness, lack cooperation ability, can't negotiate, can't divide labor and communicate, and contradictions in their study or life are often solved by complaining or aggressive behavior. This is a big problem for parents and teachers. Now, we can use a picture book like Taste of the Moon to let children know the methods and significance of cooperation. What's the smell of the moon? Is it sweet or salty? I really want to have a taste. Animals always think so when they look at the moon at night, but no matter how they stretch their necks, hands and legs, they can't reach the moon. What should I do? Let's stack together and finally eat the moon. Everyone has his own skills, and cooperation can make this power even greater.
(5) Sense of responsibility
Once a person is in a certain social relationship and in a certain state of social material life, he is bound to undertake certain missions, responsibilities and tasks. As a special age in social life, children also bear their own special responsibilities and missions. The development of individual responsibility is formed through the internalization of social values and behavioral norms in the common life of groups. Cultivating children's sense of responsibility, so that they can develop the spirit of being serious and responsible for their own actions, is of positive significance for them to go to society independently, get along with others and cultivate a sound and perfect personality in the future. Picture books can enrich children, enrich us and arouse everyone's sense of responsibility. Let's take a look at how the happy seed of the picture book "Flower Mom" is spread. Miss Lu, the flower mother-in-law, found such beautiful flowers, so she put away the seeds, bought them and scattered them on the roadside. In the spring and autumn of the following year, beautiful flowers were everywhere, and children learned to pick flowers and sow seeds. This ambition in this ordinary or extraordinary life is worthy of praise and praise.
(6) Others
If one day, the child asks, "Where am I from?" Or "Why do people die?" Will you be at a loss? Children grow up day by day and are extremely sensitive to changes in life and body. Instead of letting them explore for themselves, they can never touch the edge of the truth. Let us tell them with a relaxed attitude, starting with a happy story full of pictures. As a result, some specially targeted picture books were born, such as Life Education: A Leaf Dropped, Wonderful Life, Grandpa Didn't Wear a Suit, Badger's Gift and so on. Sex education: "Mom, where did the child come from", "Serena rushed forward" and so on. The appearance of these picture books makes death education and sex education no longer difficult and mysterious.
In short, the role of picture books in children's psychological development is self-evident. However, if there are too many uses of picture books, it will be difficult for children to have a relaxed and happy atmosphere when reading, and the original fun of picture books will be forgotten, which violates the original intention of the author of picture books.
In addition, in fact, the effect of picture books on children's psychology is difficult to be single and qualitative. The more excellent a picture book is, the less you can define its effect on children's psychological development, and often you can dig out the connotation you need from different angles. If you can share it with your child with a relaxed and calm mind, it may bring more yuan to your child. For a child, reading picture books is useful for a happy life; For an adult, reading picture books can enrich life; For groups, reading picture books together is beneficial to a harmonious society.