Paying attention to the early education of infants has also become a common sense, affecting the hearts of hundreds of millions of parents. If the baby loses early education and lets it grow naturally, it will waste precious time. This is because in the growth process of infants, once the development of the brain is delayed, the brain structure will tend to be stereotyped, and the development of potential will be limited. Even with superior talents, good development cannot be achieved.

Children's intellectual education is best carried out from the fetus. There are many audio-visual products about prenatal education on the market now, from which we can choose excellent prenatal education methods, such as playing elegant and pleasant music for pregnant women.

According to medical research, 0~3 years old plays an important role in infants' intellectual development, and about 50% of their intellectual development is completed during this period. Therefore, young parents should attach great importance to the intellectual development of their children at this stage.

Children are generally lively and imitative, but their abstract thinking ability is poor. They pursue interesting situations and colorful activities, and their attention is easily distracted. Therefore, in children's intelligence education, it is best to adopt visual education with concrete images. The content of education should be as rich and novel as possible, and the form should be vivid, intuitive and interesting. In addition to reading in class, games, fairy tales and cultural and sports activities should be used more.

Taking children to the zoo, visiting science and technology museums, watching movies, and trying to combine real things for education can make children more exposed to nature. Let children see, listen and touch more, try to coordinate the activities of various sensory organs, pay attention to language training, avoid the indoctrination of abstract theories and boring preaching, and don't keep children indoors all day and let them sit somewhere for a long time, which is extremely unfavorable to children.

Nine ways to improve children's intelligence

1, an inspiring perceptual environment

Nutrition establishes the material basis of brain function, and the communication and connection between brain cells comes from the sensory stimulation received by children in early life.

Appropriate stimuli received in early life from hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch lay the foundation for children's IQ in the future. The brain is like a container. On the basis of adequate nutrition, the more sensory stimulation a child receives, the higher the degree of brain development, just like having a bigger container.

When things need to be instilled into a container, the bigger the container, the more things it can hold. The more complex the connections between brain cells, the more information they can process. This connection between brain cells stems from sensory stimulation.

A Japanese scholar once said: "If you want to cultivate children with high intelligence and smart brains, you must exercise your fingers frequently, because finger activities can stimulate the finger motor center and promote the improvement of intelligence." Modern medical research has also confirmed that the finger motor center occupies a wider area in the cerebral cortex.

Step 2 live in person

What is personal life? That is, from the moment when children can actively imitate adults holding brooms, they are given the right to participate in life. You know, children's normal daily activities, especially free play and independent life, are already developing their intelligence.

Experience is more important to promote children's cognition. Therefore, never restrict children's freedom to play and explore, let alone deprive them of the opportunity to live independently.

For those parents who are used to doing everything for their children, it is especially important to learn to be a lazy parent. For example, from the age of 2, children can be deliberately arranged to do housework within their power.

When arranging, tell the child clearly: "You are the little master of the family, and this is what you should do." When children do a good job in housework, they should be encouraged and recognized in time.

Don't say to the child, "Will you hold it for me?" Or use substances to lure children to do housework. It's not a participation, it's a transaction.

3. Full of wonderful childhood

If we want to make use of the characteristics of children's brain development and promote their intellectual development, we should make their childhood life full of beautiful things, learn to appreciate with their own body senses and establish contact with the outside world.

Beauty is not a deliberate pursuit. You don't have to take your children to those famous tourist attractions, and you don't have to take them to see any luxurious works of art. Beauty lies in the bits and pieces of life.

For example, how many parents have urged your children to "eat quickly" in the ordinary matter of eating? It is such a hurry that ruined the good opportunity to enjoy food and feel the delicious gift of nature. People who don't know how to chew slowly are people who don't know how to live in my opinion. If you want to nourish your mind, you must first learn to take care of your physical and sensory experience.

Beauty exists in all new things that children are interested in, including stories, sports, art, animals, plants, nature and so on.

Please pay attention to the degree of mastery when bringing children into contact with all this. Once things become threats and inducements from parents, instead of letting children naturally touch and enjoy them, then even the best things will deteriorate.

4. Music

Psychologists have found that music can develop the right brain, especially classical music has a great influence on the development of children's right brain. When listening to piano music, let children imitate the posture of pressing the piano with their left hand, and when listening to violin music, let children imitate the way of pressing the strings. In addition, when children are engaged in other activities, they can create a musical background.

Step 5 paint

Painting is one of the best ways to develop the right brain. Drawing ability is a comprehensive training, including visual feeling, hands-on ability, auditory description, language understanding and so on.

Drawing is also a good way to improve children's observation ability. In the process of learning to express things around you on paper, children can help activate right brain cells, promote brain thinking, and directly help improve creativity.

You can take your children to visit flower exhibitions, bonsai exhibitions and various museums to appreciate beautiful things intuitively and integrally. Graffiti is also a comprehensive training, including visual perception, hands-on ability, auditory description, language understanding and other abilities, and it also stimulates the right brain in many aspects.

Step 6 exercise

The right brain's perception of images and stimulation of cells in motion are faster and stronger than those in static state. Dance disco aerobics, table tennis, badminton, etc. Half an hour every day, and consciously let the left hand repeat several actions when boxing or doing exercises to stimulate the right brain.

Unfortunately, China people generally lack sportsmanship, and children have little time to exercise under the pressure of heavy schoolwork. This, China parents need to be especially vigilant.

7. Reading and math skills

Parents are not encouraged to let reading and abstract mathematics get involved in their children's lives too early before their children are 7 years old. In other words, I don't advocate books to expose children to reading and learning related to mathematical operations. But it is the parents' focus to enlighten reading and mathematics. Reading and math ability are the concrete manifestations of IQ, which is the comprehensive performance of reading and math ability.

The best way of reading enlightenment is parent-child reading or bedtime stories, which can lay a solid foundation for children to learn reading formally in the future.

Fairy tales are the best way to develop the right brain's thinking ability in images. With the development of the plot, children can't help but imagine the characters, scenes and scenes in the story.

Tell your child a story before going to bed. At this time, the right brain is at its best, and the effect of developing children's imagination is much better than when they are nervous during the day.

The best way of mathematics enlightenment is parent-child game. In the process of parent-child game, the introduction of numbers, space, logic and other elements can make children understand mathematics in a more vivid and intuitive form and establish mathematical thinking.

8. Little "left-handed"

Children who are used to using their left hands have more developed right brains.

Children can't tell when they are young, but by the age of four, it will be obvious which hand they are used to, and children will have more opportunities to do things with their hands. At this time, they will take the initiative to operate with their dominant hands, which corresponds to the comparative advantage of brain function.

Some parents report that their children are left-handed, and feel nothing, but the school teacher will help correct them. Now children are left-handed and right-handed. what can I do?

If this happens, parents can fix things with their children, such as doing homework with their right hand and eating with their left hand. Using both hands can exercise the left and right brains at the same time. As long as children form habits, it is actually a good thing.

9. Get enough sleep

Sleep is very important, and protecting the brain mainly depends on sleep. Good sleep is an important way to restore the brain. If you sleep too little, it is likely to cause emotional disorders and nervous system diseases.

Therefore, it is better to attend fewer training classes and do fewer sets of exercises, and never deprive children of sleep.

Finally, it is meaningful to share some theories about brain development with Professor Fang Jun Ming, director of the Institute of Special Education of East China Normal University and doctoral supervisor.

We always say we can't lose at the starting line The problem is that you don't know where the starting line is. What problems should we pay attention to in early education?

First, while giving the baby scientific and reasonable stimulation, we should also choose the appropriate stimulation time, taking into account the moderate stimulation amount, the appropriate stimulation speed and the balance between various stimuli to prevent premature, excessive, excessive and unbalanced stimulation from bringing adverse consequences; Second, malnutrition is harmful to the growth and brain development of babies, but there are no ready-made learning and memory molecules to make people smart, and there are no "smart" nutritional additives; Third, children's emotional development is more important than IQ development. Practicing musical instruments, finger coordination and music stimulation from an early age can also stimulate the development of cerebellum and cerebral hemisphere at the same time, causing slight structural changes in the brain.

The quality of parents and caregivers is the first condition of good early education, and demanding, impatient, compulsive or vicious babies will only bring psychological trauma to babies. After all, early development is a double-edged sword, so we must be cautious, moderate and effective, admit individual differences and make the best use of the situation.

The five most critical periods of intellectual development

1, 0- 1 year, the critical period of speech recognition.

Training methods:

Imitate the sounds of animals and encourage babies to imitate. Use the opportunity of the game to let the baby distinguish the sounds coming from different directions. Get in touch with people around you, and let your baby feel different sound features and patterns.

2, 0-2 years old, the critical period of action development.

Training methods:

From the full moon, push your baby's feet with your hands and train him to crawl. When the baby is 3 months old, hang some toys above his crib for the baby to grasp with both hands and exercise his hand-eye coordination function.

Create more climbing opportunities when the baby is 6-7 months old, for example, let the baby lie prone, put one or two toys in front of him to attract him to climb forward, and try to grasp the toys to promote the development of his movements.

3, 1-3 years old, a critical period of oral development.

Training methods:

Guide the baby to pay attention to the voice and mouth shape of adults and begin to imitate the voice and movements of adults. At this time, it is mainly to train the baby's pronunciation, make his pronunciation as accurate as possible, and patiently correct some ambiguous language.

Guide the baby to associate pronunciation with specific things and people. After repeated training, the baby can understand the meaning of language from the beginning. For example, when a baby says "dad" and "mom", he will turn his head to mom and dad.

4, 2-4 years old, the critical period for the development of counting ability.

Training methods:

Take advantage of various opportunities in daily life, often count your baby, such as giving your baby candy and going up and down the stairs.

Count with your baby with different items such as fingers and building blocks to increase your baby's perceptual knowledge of numbers.

5, 1-3 years old, a critical period for the development of musical ability.

Training methods:

1 Choose songs, world famous songs, fairy tale music, etc. What is suitable for the baby, enjoy it with the baby, explain it at the same time, or ask the baby questions to stimulate his imagination.

Choose songs suitable for your baby's age and teach your baby to sing.

Principle of intellectual development

1. We should train according to the characteristics of children's brain development at various stages, follow the laws of brain development, seize the key opportunity of brain development, and provide environmental conditions for developing children's intellectual potential. We should not only stimulate and induce children's intellectual development, but also cultivate and develop children's good behavior and character.

2. Step by step: There is a certain order in the development and maturity of the nervous system, and there are certain rules in the intellectual development of children. Therefore, when educating children, we should follow the law of growth and development and the order of knowledge itself, from easy to difficult, from shallow to deep, and we should not exceed their actual level and ability, let alone rush headlong into it, otherwise it will hinder the development of children's intelligence.

3. Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude: Different children have different possibilities and levels of physical and mental development, different interests, abilities and personalities, and even different intellectual levels of twins. Therefore, different education should be carried out according to each child's personality characteristics, and parents should not impose their children's hobbies on their children. For children with mental retardation, we should be good at discovering their own specialties, stimulating interest, enhancing confidence and promoting intellectual development.

4. Avoid over-education: One of the most harmful ways to educate children is over-education. Excessive protection will deprive children of the right and opportunity to practice normal movements, and even limit the development of intelligence; Curious and active is a child's nature. Too much interference will make children timid and encourage children's rebellious psychology. Children raised by excessive protection and interference lack independence and self-reliance. Excessive expectations will cause stress to children, which will lead to mental weakness, fear, truancy, truancy and so on.