The inability of the child to concentrate attention can negatively affect his academic performance. Therefore, from an early age, parents should pay due attention to this issue. Specialists, in turn, give several clues how to stimulate the development of concentration of the child's attention.
The first clue is as follows: when dealing with a child, be sure to show your emotions - smile, be surprised, show interest and delight!
The next clue to those who are engaged in developing the attention of their children is that they themselves direct the attention of the child, involving him in various activities, and showing the positive aspects of one or another activity. Find and come up with new options and tools for concentrating children's attention. The most attractive thing for a child is that emotionally colored and unexpected, remember that.
Speech is the most universal means of organizing attention. Very often younger schoolchildren and senior preschool children, performing the task, say it aloud. Thus, speech in the form of instructions or the requirements of an adult helps the kid to purposefully manage his attention. A step-by-step instruction is always the most effective. Such an instruction facilitates the planning of the child's activities and organizes his attention. From this emerges the third clue: create instructions and remember that it must be step-by-step, necessarily benevolent, understandable, concrete and exhaustive.
The possibility of resisting factors that distract a child is at the heart of preserving attention. Distract the baby can various factors, from external stimuli, objects, people, to internal emotional experiences. Your child needs to help develop a mechanism to resist distractions. To help in this case, parents can voice instructions aimed at completing the child's primary activities. The art of learning for parents is mainly to select such tasks based on the abilities and abilities of the child.
In this case, the ideal task is one that slightly exceeds the child's potential. This stimulates the further development of the baby. In addition, the words of parents, aimed at maintaining attention to the child's main activities, should not be negatively emotional. It is very doubtful that he will complete the assignment if the parent utters phrases in the orderly tone "Do not be distracted!", "Do not look around!", "Do not touch the toys!". In this case, the more effective phrases: "Now we finish this sentence and play!", "Look, you have only two letters to write!".
In older preschoolers, the concentration of attention becomes much better. At the age of six to seven years, children can easily concentrate their attention on the image or subject to 20 seconds.
On stability, attention is also affected by the nervousness and soreness of the child. Nervous and painful children are more distracted than healthy ones. In this case, the degree of stability of their attention can differ up to one and a half to two-fold. In a room where a TV or a tape recorder works, the child will be distracted more often than in a quiet, quiet room. An angry or upset child is also less capable of assiduity and development of concentration of attention. From this follows the fourth tip for parents: you should take care of the emotional and physical health of your child, if you want your kid to do well schoolwork and your assignments. Create an environment that excludes distractions such as emotional speech, loud sounds, interesting magazines and books, bright toys, moving objects.
A good concentration of attention suggests that everything else around is not seen, except for the main occupation. The child should have sufficient attention stability, so that the child has formed this property. The presence of a child's hobbies, hobbies or business, which he will be interested in, also contributes to the development of concentration in the child. By focusing on your favorite business, the child will develop the concentration concentration skill.