Myth 1: Early childhood education is to send children to kindergarten. In the eyes of many parents, children's early childhood education means going to kindergarten, and kindergarten teachers educate their children. Myth 2: Play with toys and learn talent. Early childhood education is generally to give children more toys to play with, so that they have more fresh things. Because infants and young children are the weakest in discrimination and self-protection, this kind of education has certain security risks. Now many parents can learn to go to kindergarten mainly to let their children learn to sing and dance. Conditional kindergartens can also set up other talent interest classes for learning. Myth 3: You can't let your child lose at the starting line. Although in recent years, China has spared no effort to promote quality education and emphasized the importance of quality education in cultivating talents, in the eyes of many parents, studying is for a good university, and a good university is for finding a good job. Under the influence of this concept of exam-oriented education, parents let their children go to the best kindergarten, thinking that the earlier they learn Chinese, math and English, the better for their children. Myth 4: adopt indoctrination teaching. Whether children like it or not, it is easy to bore children who are still in the initial stage of intellectual and character development by imposing various courses on them.
Second, the importance and particularity of early childhood education
The importance of preschool education means that it is the foundation of a person's development, and many important abilities and personality qualities form basic characteristics during this period. The "particularity" of preschool education means that this stage is the transition period of children's physical and mental development from the initial amorphous to the basic stereotypes, and then they can start learning and development according to social needs.
1. Early childhood is the best period for intellectual development. Many foreign studies have found that early childhood is the best period for intellectual development. For example, the study of American psychologist Jammings pointed out that children's intelligence develops fastest before the age of 5. For a child aged 65,438+08, 50% of his intelligence was acquired before the age of 4, 30% before the age of 4-8 and 20% before the age of 8-65,438+08. In the period of children's rapid intellectual development, the role of early education is also particularly great. If children are properly educated in the right way during this period, the effect can be imagined.
2. Early childhood is a critical period for a sound personality. Early childhood education plays an important role in the formation of human personality. In early childhood, children's personality characteristics began to sprout and gradually formed. At this time, children have strong plasticity, and self-evaluation has not yet been established. They often rely on the evaluation of parents and teachers to evaluate themselves. Parents and teachers say "good" is "good", and parents and teachers say "bad" is "bad".
If children are properly educated and guided during this period to form good personality and quality, it will have an important impact on their life. On the contrary, if some bad personality characteristics or behavior habits are formed during this period, it will be difficult to correct them in the future.
3. Early childhood is the key period of sex education. Children around 3 years old are in a special stage of sexual psychological development, which is called "sexual budding period" in psychology. If a boy thinks of himself as a girl and imitates her in dress, behavior and expression, he becomes a feminine boy. If a girl thinks of herself as a boy and imitates him in dress, behavior and expression, she becomes a masculine girl. This is called gender role deformity.