Telling children stories should be analyzed and practiced from the perspective of children's cognitive psychology. One is to pay attention to the story-telling environment, and the other is to repeat it.
First, the story-telling environment
1. Time, atmosphere and sitting posture of telling stories
Tell stories to children to create a relaxed atmosphere. Generally speaking, telling stories before going to bed is good for children to sleep at night. Try to choose a desk lamp for lighting, that is, it is appropriate to only illuminate the position of the book, and the light in other parts of the room should be darker. The posture of parents with their children is very important. Mom and dad should be shoulder to shoulder with their children, and children will feel companionship instead of sitting face to face and feeling pressure.
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2. The tone and speed of the story.
In the process of telling stories, parents and children should make eye contact from time to time, and the voice should be low, slow and not fast, because every sentence, every plot and every character in the story told by parents will appear in children's minds, such as bright sunshine, green lawn, thin sand and two rabbits with long ears. These abstract things and details in the story are all in the child's mind. If children can't keep up too fast, the brain can't flash the content of the story, and it loses the meaning of telling stories to let children know the world around them. (For more articles about children's cognitive psychology, please pay attention to the headline number.)
The tone of the story should be cadence, and the child's brain will respond to the high and low tones to make the story more vivid.
Second, the story should be repeated.
1. Support children to listen to repeated stories.
Some parents often say that children like telling stories, and both parents are impatient. Actually, this is a good thing. If parents don't understand their children's cognitive psychology, they will deliberately expose their children to new stories, which is wrong.
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Step 2 tell a story for a month
Generally speaking, a story will be told for at least a month, and children will not be impatient. We adults watch a book and a movie. If we watch it many times, we will gain something new every time, especially some details in books and movies. So are children. When he does it the second time, he will notice the new details. At this time, his brain is not led by the story, but pays attention to the details in the story. The ability to control details is an important learning ability for children in the future. Why do some children always forget to do application problems in the fourth and fifth grades of primary school? They just didn't pay attention to many detailed conditions in the application problem, so they didn't do it right. (For more articles about children's cognitive psychology, please pay attention to the headline number.)
Build a close relationship
When a child has heard a story many times, he is already familiar with it, including its details. When his parents told him again, he had a well-thought-out plan, a sense of control and security over the whole story, and a closer relationship with his parents. (For more articles about children's cognitive psychology, please pay attention to the headline number.)
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Develop self-confidence
When mom and dad accidentally tell one of the plots wrong, he will say, mom, you made a mistake, that's not true. You said, I'm sorry, I was wrong. At this time, the child will have the confidence to correct your mistakes, and the child's self-confidence will be slowly cultivated.
5. Cultivate emotional intelligence
When you make this discovery, you can deliberately tell a wrong story in the subsequent story-telling process to see if the child can correct you. In the process of correcting you, the child shows that the brain is thinking and has a comprehensive grasp of the whole story. He can cope with any small revision of the story, and he can fully understand and master the story, characters, the relationship between characters and the changes in the relationship between characters, which will improve the emotional intelligence of children. In this way, the purpose of telling stories is achieved.