It seems that in using the author's methods of early development of children there is nothing terrible - a continuous benefit for the growing up and developing organism. However, children's psychotherapists for the past few years have adhered to a different, cardinally opposite opinion. Still - because to them at the reception began to come increasingly tiny babies, who are found not at all children's mental disorders. And doctors unanimously accuse exactly these techniques developed for the early development of babies. But the brains of children do not always manage to keep up with the amount of information that moms are trying to put into the head of a growing child. Young parents sleep and see how their baby still lying in the cradle will amaze everyone by their ability to count to ten and read by syllables - but are these skills worth developing, and a little later, with mental problems?
Usually the disease of "early development" is sick by women living in big cities - after all, there is more access to information and more opportunities. How often mother, walking with the baby in the park, is compelled to listen to the proud parents telling that their children in three years already are able to pass fairly enough and clearly read and even know a simple account. Then we begin to feel like a nonentity - after all, we could not teach our child to read and write, did not take advantage of the opportunities offered to us by books and other resources. Having come home, we frantically download all possible methods of early development from the Internet, read reviews of happy mothers - and begin to introduce the basics of programs into the lives of their kids. Of course, because we do not want Vitenka from the next door to be an excellent student at school, and our chashushko is good.
However, the proud word "development" in this case is not entirely appropriate. You are just trying to begin to influence the formation of the child's personality from an early age: physical, mental and, of course, intellectual. And all the so-called "schools", where they practice early development, have nothing to do with the latter - they usually only try to stuff kids with the knowledge that they have to learn in the first grades of the school. But this has nothing to do with development, because, on the contrary, it is the development of children that is hampered in the process of stuffing their heads with new knowledge. But parents do not understand this - they only understand that when they pass the tests for admission to an elite educational institution, it is their children who will get the coveted chance to complete assignments and successfully join the ranks of students.
The boom of the success of schools chanting author's methods of early development of children falls on the middle of the twentieth century, when grief teachers of preschool institutions unanimously declared that after three years it was too late to start developing a child. Mummies grabbed their heads and rushed to make up for lost time and polls turned to authors and developers of techniques for help. No wonder: they were promised that the kid would become a genius, a child prodigy. Here and "were" young parents on loud and promising slogans. Usually in "schools" several methods were used at once, choosing from each something the main thing, the fundamental one. Among the favorite author's techniques were the programs of Nikitin and Montessori, Tyulenev and Zaitsev. But is this the right approach?
In this article we will try to give you an idea of what the most famous author's methods of early development are, what are their pros and cons and what are they?
Ms. Montessori, a native of France, devoted her whole life to rehabilitation and education of children with mental disabilities. She became the author of the technique, the inventory for the exercise of which were specially designed frames from cardboard, cubes and cards that developed the fine motor skills of children's pens. This has always been very important, because the nerve endings, located at the very tip of the finger, can stimulate the speech center of the brain. As a result of the lessons by the method of Maria Montessori, the children with deviations quickly learned to speak and even read and write - at what all this happened at them much faster than in healthy peers. After this technique showed such excellent results, Montessori decided to introduce it into the development of normal, healthy toddlers. To date, there are whole schools working on the Montessori method - and they teach a lot of children of all ages and different levels of knowledge. At the same time, older, experienced kids are struggling to help their younger friends in what they themselves have long mastered. The simplest tasks with subtraction and addition children comprehend thanks to ... colored beads, which are strung on a thin rope in a chaotic order. But you can learn how to read using Montessori's technique, using specially designed cards.
However, this technique has its opponents. For example, the head of the psychology laboratory of preschool children named Elena Smirnova, the opinion on the Montessori method was negative. She argues that with such lessons, teachers completely forget about the importance of speech interaction and the development of children's fantasy. After all, in such lessons the child simply can not show his emotions and feelings, imagination - he simply does not have time for all calculations and calculations. But if you deprive the child of the emotional side of communication - this can lead to serious negative consequences, such as mental disorders.
This technique in wide circles has its name - the idea of irreversible extinction of opportunities for effective development of abilities - or abbreviated "NUVERS". The essence of the idea is that babies can actively develop for up to three years - and if up to this age parents have invested too little knowledge and effort into the baby, then in the future they will no longer be. On the development of the child's personality it will be possible to put a fat cross. This is the essence of the Nikitin theory.
Nikitina started her work with her own children. To conduct classes, they chose all sorts of cubes and plaques, tasks for the development of logic for kids. However, this is not all over, because the key to the development of the Nikitins is the development of the physical. The body of the child should not be burdened with clothes (nothing superfluous!), In the diet of the baby should be dominated by low-calorie foods - and then it will be easier for him to solve all the tasks assigned to him.
But this system, at first glance quite harmonious, has its own significant disadvantage - Nikitins are baked about the physical development of the baby and raising his intellectual indices, however, the emotional side of his life, as in the previous method, remains very scarce, which can lead to irreparable consequences.
But the most interesting thing is the other. More than once, various institutions of early development have tried to determine: what is the essence, what is the peculiarity of this technique, which the Nikitins so vigorously nurture? However, all requests for clarification by a married couple were rejected for unknown reasons. In addition, even the Nikitins' children do not want to go into details about the method of development that their parents offer. Even more - none of the descendants of Nikitins tried this method on their babies. Probably, this is due to the fact that as a result of following the methodology, children do not eventually become the geniuses about which teachers speak. People are educated, but they do not have enough stars from the sky - is it worth it to expose a child to such intense and intense pursuits for the sake of such a vague goal *
All mothers probably heard about the so-called "Zaytsev cubes" and their magic properties. A teacher from St. Petersburg has developed his own method for teaching children to read from early nails. Innovation lies in the fact that Zaitsev considered the main unit of language construction not in syllable, as was generally assumed, but in the warehouse. What is a warehouse? It is either a combination of a standing vowel and a consonant, or a consonant - with a soft or hard sign, or simply a single letter.
These storages Zaytsev placed on the faces of cubes, with the help of which the child begins to learn his first words and read. All the cubes are completely different, both in color and in filling. So, if the cube "describes" a dull sound, it is filled with small wood sticks. But the "ringing" cubes are filled with metal caps of a small size - to ring loudly. If there are bells or bells in the nutria of the cube, then its edges are labeled with vowel sounds. Such separation necessarily helps the child learn to distinguish the vowel from the consonant as quickly as possible, and the sonorous sound from the deaf.
If your child is three or four years old, then you can acquaint him with cubes Zaitsev - they will help the child learn to read literally in the first few sessions. Earlier, there is no sense to start - after all, although the kid already easily remembers the sound of sounds and knows how to distinguish them, it still remains incomprehensible to him that these sounds can merge into words, so he can not read. Zaytsev's cubes can help a child learn all the offered warehouses, but should this be done? After all, coming to school, he will be very tight. He will be re-taught the art of reading anew - and it's not so simple.
V. Tyulenev and his methodology
And it is absolutely amazing with its transience and results that the method proposed for the introduction into the children's creation of the teacher Viktor Tyulenev. His pedagogical experiments he did on his own children, which should inspire respect for moms - because their children do not do bad. So, the technique is really worthwhile.
Tyulenev's method is that from early childhood parents should take care of the child to be surrounded by all kinds of cards, tables, portraits of geniuses of humanity - they say, thus the children seem to grow up in an atmosphere of intellectual scientific character.
The method of early development for children from Viktor Tyulenev really brings results. Children already a year learn to read, and their memory develops so much that by the second year of life they can cite by heart the most complex poetry.
As a result, parents begin to hide their geeks from the curious eyes of neighbors and think about where they will take money to the prestigious lyceum, because their little genius does not have to learn in a simple school.
However, soon the parents will notice the "mark" that this method left on their child. After all, such loads simply can not pass in vain. The baby begins to cry without an excuse, to become reserved, to be capricious and harmful, and it becomes very difficult for the mother to find the real cause of this nervousness.
Psychologists say that to some extent the parents' desire to quickly teach the child "adult" skills is dictated by the fact that adults simply do not want to play in childhood, laying out a small dish or arranging a puppet theater for their child. It is simply more convenient for them to read the book at leisure. As a result, their children themselves suffer from this "early development".
In addition, experts say that there is nothing wrong with starting to teach reading not in three years, but at five - it is not so destructive to the weak child's psyche. Yes, and it is not entirely clear why the "Ladushki", "Soroki-Ravens", fairy-tales about the mitten and Kolobok have not pleased modern parents so far? Is the desire to be in step with the times worth of this mockery of the kids?