You just finished reading K. Chukovsky "Aibolit and Barmalej" ... The Kid sits, silently, thinks, and then gives out a whole list of conclusions, inspired by the work. The fact that the doctor is good, and the robber is evil, that Africa is a dangerous place and it's better to go on a swing under the house, that ... In general, it is clear: the child easily mastered such difficult mental operations as analysis, comparison, generalization.
Analyzing
In many authoritative books on early development, one can find the statement: the thinking of an active and passive listener of a child is manifested in the second year of life. And what happens during the first year of the child's stay in this land? A healthy dream, acquaintance with people and objects and, of course, an active mental work. Even in a dream. Otherwise, as if the baby correlated my mother's face and voice with positive emotions, the smell of breast milk - with delicious food, father's hands - with dizzying turns? .. The crumb watches and constantly analyzes everything that happens around. He suffices one experiment to understand: a rat rattles when you shake it. He determined: it's enough to shout - and my mother will be there. When the baby learns crawling, it takes the first steps, the brain gets more information. The thought processes become even more active.
Such is the practice
Self-mastery of space for the active and passive listener allows the child to better know the world around him. The main thing is that you get courage and allow the child to study, consider, experiment.
Provide the researcher with pans of different sizes. Let them find out by experience how much is bigger and which is less.
Do some experiments with water. Fill the tub and show how heavy objects sink, and the lungs stay afloat.
On a walk compete: who will notice more cars the color of the sky, grass, sun.
Play with the child in the detectives: find similar items in different subjects. For example, in a bicycle, a tractor, a train, an airplane. Or in a window, a stool, a bedside table ... Actually, any game develops thinking. The Kid actively trains skills even when drawing, sculpting, stacking pyramids from your favorite dishes. So do not load crumbs with tasks. The excess of information is harmful. Malyutka himself will sort things out in many ways. And if he can not, you will come to his aid.
Draw conclusions
When a child changes sign language to his native speech, his thinking goes to a new level. The child begins to understand that any object around has a name. Even a tiny ant. Imagine, for a baby this is a discovery!
He replenishes his vocabulary literally every hour.
The child has already learned to call his favorite products, colors, toys. It will not be difficult for them to assemble them into groups: sweets, cars, ornaments, plants.
Good-bad, dark-light, light-heavy, many-little, sweet-bitter-everything that is tested in practice, the baby marks with words. Sometimes his conclusions are quite unexpected. But after all, each of us has his own point of view on everything that exists in this world.
Brain Ring
There are magic things that will help a kid to master such complicated mental operations as analysis, synthesis, generalization.
Comparison is easy to understand by the example of a pyramid of rings or pasochek. The child will quickly find out which detail is the largest. And find the smallest. Build a tower or lay down a nesting doll - one into another.
Buy puzzles and designers. When the carapace collects a picture from the details, builds a tower, it is engaged in synthesis. Of the fragments is a single image.
Thanks to books the kid will learn to analyze what is happening. He listens, chooses the details from the general narrative. Based on this, he makes conclusions about the heroes and their actions.