I found that many parents who pick up their children are chatting at the kindergarten gate now, and the topics they talk about are:
"Did your child sign up for the early math class?"
"My child is studying math all day on weekends now."
"The early education of xx institutions is good. My child can do addition and subtraction now. "
It seems that parents have made early education mathematics a compulsory course, and even take pride in helping their children to enroll in classes, which is generally considered to be much better than those children who have never attended early education mathematics classes.
I'm not saying that the math early education class is not good, mainly because if the parents' mentality is not correct, even if the children sign up for the early education class, it still has no effect.
If parents have the three mentalities I mentioned below, I don't recommend helping their children to enroll in early education classes.
1, let children master mathematics knowledge in advance.
Here, we need to mention a very famous experiment of American psychologist gesell's twins climbing stairs.
Under the condition of the same age, after two people receive different intensity training, the final result is almost the same.
This experiment shows that there is an "optimal education period" for any kind of training content aimed at a specific object.
It is also a meaning to sign up for an early education math class. I don't advise parents to teach abstract math problems such as addition and subtraction before their children are 5 years old. At this time, the child is still in a state of incomplete cognition.
Learning mathematics has never been achieved by attending cram schools in advance, but more needs to be understood.
2, just for comparison, other people's children reported it, and my family must have reported it.
Don't be influenced by the current impetuous atmosphere in society. Seeing that all my colleagues' and neighbors' children have signed up for early math classes, I must sign up, or I will be compared with other people's children.
But in fact, maybe your child is not interested in numbers and math at this stage.
He prefers to run and jump, and he prefers to go out for a walk every day, racket ball and roller skating with his neighbor's children.
In this case, forcing the child to take a course that he is completely uninterested in will only make him reject mathematics in the future.
I have long thought about cultivating children's interpersonal skills.
Parents believe that although they are taking early math classes, they can exercise their children's language communication skills in advance.
In the future, children will definitely not get stage fright when they go to school, and they will definitely be much more generous than other children.
It is no exaggeration to say that children before the age of 3 need to communicate with their guardians.
Communicating with parents is the first step in training children to communicate with others, and then gradually communicate with children around them.
Sending children to kindergarten in advance will not only improve their interpersonal skills, but also make them feel scared and timid because of premature contact with strangers.
I understand that parents want their children to succeed. But at the same time, I also hope that parents can relax and not be infected by such a utilitarian atmosphere in society.
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