The more concerned, the more anxious, the more confused. Various remedial classes in the education and training industry dazzle anxious parents, and children's growing environment is also faced with many temptations and interferences: short videos and electronic screens. How to understand and deal with the influence of these factors on children's attention and even their life development?
Based on this background, this inner circle takes attention, the most core and key ability in children's ability development, as the breakthrough point, and invites Dr. Lin, an expert in children's concentration training and education, 10-year-old children, and Han Peishan, a teacher with rich experience in children's education and training, to come to the inner circle to talk about children's concentration and education.
The relationship between children's concentration and sleep: "electronic screen" poses new challenges
Based on the recent policy on children's sleep duration issued by the Ministry of Education, Dr. Lin scientifically analyzed the internal mechanism behind it from two aspects:
On the one hand, sleep and concentration complement each other: high efficiency, longer sleep time, more input when awake, and vice versa; At the same time, the electronic screen has also become a factor that cannot be ignored: the time of watching the screen, the blue light of the screen phone and the blue light of the iPAD affect attention and sleep.
Dr. Lin pointed out that we should pay attention to these potential core factors that affect children's concentration, such as the time spent watching electronic screens, and create an environment conducive to children's screen time. Usually, a family's screen time is uncontrollable, and it is difficult for children to be self-disciplined. However, these are subtly shaping children's concentration.
Confusion in applying for classes: Keeping the bottom line of core competence training, applying for classes is not the only choice.
Combined with the current education and training market, various types and forms of training courses emerge one after another. How should parents choose?
As the mother of a 10-year-old boy, Teacher Han Peishan has a lot of experience in this respect: she said that she usually does not enroll her children in school-related cram schools. Based on her concentration and professional knowledge and skills related to children's education, she is more concerned about choosing cram schools that match her physical and mental development at different ages to improve her concentration. If you choose Lego before your child goes to primary school and enters school age, you will also choose some pen and paper training to help your child improve his attention.
Dr. Lin concluded that we should not have a one-size-fits-all or black-and-white idea about the training course. If children really need it in their studies, it is also good to enroll in cram schools. But behind the choice, parents should stick to a principle and bottom line-the cultivation of children's core competence. This is the most precious wealth for children's life development.
Choose the focus of the training course, even the unified principle and wisdom of children's education: parents/teachers should know children very well, understand the stages and characteristics of their physical and mental development, the reasons behind them and the needs of their growth and development, and judge what kind of growth environment their children need. In this way, parents will not be anxious and will not be led by the information of various external training courses.
What class to enroll in and what class to attend are not the most critical or even mandatory.
Expert Quotations: Grasp the core of education and be smart and anxious parents.
As an education expert, Dr. Lin answered the doubts of parents and educators on the spot. These issues cover the causes of ADHD, intervention methods, views on learning disabilities, major life choices and decisions of children's entrance examinations, and the relationship between children's growth and nature.
This article also extracts the essence quotations of Dr. Lin in the live broadcast process, hoping to bring inspiration to parents and children educators:
Don't underestimate activities such as bird watching and fish watching. Nature's ingenuity provides irreplaceable out-of-print materials for children's concentration, including the development of other abilities. Children's attention problems and hyperactivity problems can be greatly alleviated or even disappeared if they have the opportunity to return to and get in touch with nature frequently. Playing board games with children, our parents really can't win. This kind of game-style attention training naturally exercises the children's concentration ability, and at the same time, it also draws closer the distance between us and our children. In the process of real parent-child interaction, we may be surprised that the Excellence of children has exceeded our imagination! Everyone has their own life problems to deal with. Sometimes, we will project our life problems on the choice and development of our children. Behind this, we need to look at ourselves first-whether there are problems and anxieties in this area and how to solve our own life problems. Be an anxious parent and give your child a life without regrets.
Education is a science and an art. As parents, having a higher educational career and pattern will help children grow up all their lives. Having professional knowledge such as psychology and pedagogy and important abilities such as concentration can help you clarify the logic behind your child's growth.