The child's body is developing rapidly, and the child feels the strength of his own body and shows this strength in constant activities. On the other hand, their bodies are still immature, their movements are not coordinated, their self-protection ability is still poor, and they are vulnerable to diseases and accidents.
2. Early childhood is the best period for intellectual development.
Research shows that early childhood is the fastest period of brain development. The brain is closely related to intelligence. Therefore, in the period of children's rapid brain development, early education has a great influence on intelligence. If children are properly educated in the right way in this period, their intelligence level can be obviously improved.
3. Early childhood is the key period of sound personality.
In early childhood, children's personality quality began to sprout and gradually formed. At this time, their plasticity is strong, and their self-evaluation has not been established. They often evaluate themselves through the evaluations of their parents and teachers. Therefore, preschool education plays an important role in the formation of children's personality.
4. Early childhood is the key period of sex education.
Children around 3 years old begin to have gender awareness, which is a special stage of sexual psychological development, which is called "sexual germination period" in psychology. If children can correctly correspond their gender with the gender roles required by society, their psychology can develop normally.
5. Cultivate aesthetic feeling and promote the development of creativity and imagination.
Because of the characteristics of children's thinking and emotion, they like to think and express with images, sounds, colors and body movements. Starting from this feature, preschool education cultivates and infects children with beauty, satisfies their nature of loving beauty, germinates their aesthetic feeling and interest, stimulates their desire to express beauty and create beauty, develops their artistic imagination and creativity, and promotes the formation of a sound personality.
6. Promote the all-round healthy and harmonious development of children's body and mind, and prepare for school life.
Early childhood education is a kind of quality education aimed at promoting children's all-round, healthy and harmonious development, rather than one-sided education focusing on one aspect such as intellectual development.
Research shows that what can really help children adapt to school life is not the academic knowledge and skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic acquired in pre-school, but the social communication ability and good learning interests and habits. Social development and the cultivation of good learning interests and habits are not tasks that can be completed overnight, but tasks that run through the pre-school period. Therefore, early childhood education should take promoting children's comprehensive and healthy physical and mental development as the starting point, and prepare children for entering primary schools, not just limited to the training of reading, writing and arithmetic knowledge and skills.