Passion over early development has subsided. Those who were unequivocally against him, stopped insisting on this. And those who fanatically engaged with the child on methods of early development of intelligence, calmed down and slowed down the pace.
All because the fashion for early development has passed, and conversations about its harm are started by psychologists more often. Say, our society is not ready for child prodigals, and the kid, developed by years, when going to school, faces many problems: boredom at the lessons, difficulties with adaptation and difficult communication with peers. So what do you do? Is it possible to stop developing a child at all? Of course not. It is important to remember the main rules: first, you can not put an early development above everything else - the development of the motor, emotional.
Secondly , any method should be adjusted for your child, focusing on his desires, opportunities and the pace of intellectual development of a young child. Do not forget that your child needs the love of his parents more than anything else. And only after that - the alphabet, knowledge of languages and mathematics ... Well, about the development of intelligence will take care properly created environment, which is worth considering moms and dads. Such an environment is called nutrient (it feeds the cognitive activity of the baby) and it consists of very simple things.
Massage - the whole head
What is there to do with the development of intelligence, you ask. And you will be wrong! Communication is, moreover, the most direct. The development of intelligence in the first years of a child's life is directly related to the movement. Judge for yourself, the skin of the baby is the largest and most sensitive organ of the knowledge of the world. This is then added to her vision, hearing, smell, the final formation of which occurs after the birth of the child. While the skin takes on the function of the main "teacher" - the nerve endings in it, information is received and transmitted further - to the brain. The more touches you feel on yourself, the more actively your intellect develops. Another interesting fact: often by massaging fingers and legs of the baby, we actively influence its speech center.As surprising as it may sound, it is the development of fine motor skills that is responsible for how fast, well and correctly your child will talk to you.
Emotions plus
The main claim of psychologists to the adherents of early development is that in the race for the intellectual achievements of the child, parents turn it into a walking encyclopedia, train the memory of the kid by simple memorization, develop logical thinking, but completely forget about emotions. So it turns out that the child easily multiplies in his mind two-digit numbers, but ... does not know how to sympathize with others, for example. His emotional IQ turns out to be extremely low.
Such children in the future become very difficult to communicate with their peers, to establish and maintain friendly relations. All because they simply do not know how to be friends, to behave not as small adults, but as ordinary children. To avoid this, it is necessary to pay attention to the development of emotions from an early age. And this is done by example. Are you sad? Explain to crumbs why you are sad. And do not think that he does not understand anything. Maybe he does not understand all the subtleties, but this information will be postponed and will pop up in memory at the right time. When the child becomes older, you can play with him in the "Masks": close your face with your hands and, lowering them, alternately show your child different emotions (joy, sadness, surprise, displeasure, fear, etc.) .The child will surely be delighted with your grimacing and your participation in such fun.The game in the "Masks" must be accompanied by explanations and repeat each expression several times, alternately: "Look, my mother is happy, (sad, etc.)!" In other words, it is not worth it hope that the child will grow up and "get involved" in emotion th communication, it is necessary to teach, as well as everything else, - to crawl, walk, read, play ...
What kind of book is this?
First of all, it is necessary to understand that abstract thinking (namely, thanks to him we understand what we read) develops much later - to four years. And even if you train the baby to distinguish the letter A among the others in the word watermelon, for him these two concepts are in no way connected: there is a letter A and there is a watermelon, which, according to my mother, are among themselves in some kind of "related" connections. All this is necessary to take into account and understand that when you teach a child to read from a diaper, you just train his visual memory.To the same reason, it is difficult for a kid to put letters in syllables, by the way, thanks to this understanding, all methods of teaching early reading are divided into 3 types : by letters, by syllables (Zaitsev's technique), by whole words (Glen Doman's technique) and, whatever you choose, if such a desire arises, remember that the letter, syllable or word for the child is only a graphic element, a symbol that he can remember with repeated persistent repetition. whether to put such efforts to the fact that at an older age your baby will learn in a couple of weeks - it's easy and organic? It's worth it! But only after saying to myself: "I do not teach the child to read, I'm familiar with it with letters (numbers)." Take it as part of a big world with which you are introduced to a crumb. Here's a kitty, here's a dog, but the letter A.
And keep in mind that the cat and dog are much clearer to the kid than letters and numbers, because live learning objects jump, meow or crow, eat, run away from danger and interact with each other. They are interesting and understandable. What then with numbers and letters? Treat this as a preparatory stage for reading. Hang on the rooms images of letters (syllables, words) and numbers - in large print, red on white. The child will remember them as part of his world, and knowledge itself will go into a passive reserve. And when the kid begins to learn to read at an older age, he will be ready to receive letters and numbers, since he is already familiar with them.
Illustrate it!
For this, we use the idea of Cecil Lupan to make a thematic encyclopedia for the child. It does not require special skill, financial costs and time. To create it, we just need to arm ourselves with old magazines, unnecessary photographs and books. And the benefits are invaluable! Indeed, where our city children see goats or cows, planes and cruisers. Here we need such encyclopedias. They can be done on any topic: "Animals", "Weather", "Flowers", "Technique", "Capitals of the World" etc. Under each picture, it is desirable to make the signature in capital letters. Try to choose illustrations, where there will be one object, ie if you show a chanterelle, then in the photo or picture there should be only it - large and unambiguous.No photos and you took pictures of old children's books? Please note that the characters where animals are shown in painted clothes or atypical for real nature poses, we do not fit. "Animation" with "faces" and "animated" animated cars, etc. For a thematic encyclopedia, you need as close to life as possible.To encyclopaedia serve you as long as possible, cover pages with a wide transparent tape or make an encyclopedia not in a regular album or school notebook, and individual pictures, each of which is laminated.
Correct sound
What is the difference between the creation of a nutrient medium for the intellectual development of a young child from purposeful lessons with crumbs according to the method? In fact, the environment is what the kid lives in, teaching moments do not stand out from the general picture familiar to the child's life, but are weaved into daily rituals - walking, feeding and even bathing. The only thing that is required from my mother is not to be silent. This is easily given to active mummy-chatters and sometimes causes problems in silent introverts. But here, too, nature comes to the rescue. With the birth of a baby, a woman changes under the influence of a maternal instinct. Scientists have noticed that young mothers even change their voices - it becomes taller, softer, and the intonations of speech are more taut, tender. Hormones do their good work, and a woman simply does not need to resist and feel shy.
Remember : now your main enemy is silence. And this is confirmed by scientific facts. At one time, scientists conducted an experiment in two groups of nursery babies. In one group, mothers behaved naturally: they stroked and nursed their babies, sang lullabies, whispered tenderness in the ear. And in another - the task of mothers was simply to perform manipulations for the care of children: the children were silently fed, changed, put to bed. According to the results of this absolutely inhumane study, it turned out that the children from the "silent" group became more capricious and restless, they were more often sick, and eventually began to give in to their happier "colleagues" from the first group in terms of the rates of physical and intellectual development. They later began to talk, later went.
Of course, we do not encourage you to "rattle" incessantly, use every minute of waking up the crumbs to stuff it with information.You just know that even when you sing a lullaby to a child, it develops when you walk about telling about trees and cars, - it develops when you breastfeed it - it also makes a positive contribution to the child's mental development.
Be natural and sensitive to listen to what your baby wants and is prepared for. Just always act a little bit ahead of schedule. Is your baby interested in a car standing near your house? So, it's time to begin studying the home encyclopedia on "Transport", and at the same time to study colors, because all these machines are so different!
Learn with love, and your studies will necessarily bring the expected fruits!