Wen: As the mother of an energetic little boy, Guoer's mother
had to let him sit in one place and focus on doing something. For me, it was also a huge challenge.
It is said that, on average, boys will lag behind girls throughout elementary school, not to mention that they are still younger boys...
children are energetic and we cannot expect them to be fully focused. Having said that, I found through practice that there are some ways to help children improve their concentration.
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Adjust your expectations so that you are not disappointed.
"Be serious! Focus on doing this!"
When you think your child is always inattentive, is it true? First of all, you have to have a proper expectation of the duration of attention. It is unreasonable to expect children as young as three to stay focused for more than half an hour.
Child development experts believe that a reasonable attention span is 2 to 5 times their age . Therefore, the average attention span is as follows:
2 years old: 4 to 10 minutes; 4 years old: 8 to 20 minutes;
6 years old: 12 to 30 minutes; 8 years old: 16 to 40 minutes;
10 years old: 20 to 50 minutes; 12 Age: 24 to 60 minutes... The time above
is just a reference. The time that a child can really concentrate, largely depends on the number of distracting factors, such as whether it is oversaturated, hungry, sleepy and tired, and interest in the task at hand.
But if the child’s attention span is always below the lower limit, this is worth noting. This may be ADHD, or ADHD. The prevalence is generally 3%-5%. Boys are more likely to suffer from the disease. Z10z needs to find a professional doctor for diagnosis and treatment, otherwise it will directly affect their academic performance.
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Basic matters for improving attention
The child’s attention span reflects his physical state . Only those with adequate nutrition, adequate sleep, and regular exercise can improve their physical condition and improve their concentration. Conversely, attention will inevitably become worse.
Children under the age of 12 should try to avoid eating foods containing caffeine. Excessive caffeine can cause sleeplessness, dizziness, frequent urination, and severe palpitations, cramps, and vomiting. But in fact, not only coffee contains caffeine, caffeine is commonly found in carbonated beverages, functional beverages, teas, and chocolates, so you should consume less or not. Even if you want to eat/drink, it should not be in the afternoon or evening, otherwise it will affect the quality of sleep and will be listless during the day.
On the contrary, eating healthy foods, fresh vegetables and fruits, meat, fish, milk, and eggs can enhance physical fitness and promote brain development.
seems to be common sense, but many people often bring children to KFC for a meal. Even if it happens occasionally, it is very likely that these monsters can no longer be controlled.
Regular exercise can promote brain development, improve attention while studying, and can also cultivate team spirit, sportsmanship and competition consciousness. Z1z
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was diagnosed with ADHD at a very young age. For treatment, he embarked on the road of swimming and eventually became "the greatest Olympic athlete".
controls the time of contact with electronic products and TV. This is all unintentional attention. Strong stimulation makes children look very focused. After too much contact, it will actually destroy the active attention during learning .
At the same time, can also do some thinking games , such as maze, scrabble, matching, finding differences, short-term memory, coloring, tangram games, finding mistakes, etc., which can gradually improve observation and concentration. Of course, you should also pay attention to the time when playing .
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Prepare for a disturbance-free environment
Most children like a quiet and non-disturbing environment, and a small number of children may be more comfortable with the noisy environment. Legend has it that Mao Da specializes in reading books in the busy city to train his concentration. Therefore, we should first understand what kind of environment the child likes. Z1z
If you need to eat some fruits, nuts and other snacks, concentrate on eating enough time before learning . Before my old manWhen Guoguo was reading a book, he would wash grapes and pears and bring them over, for fear that the child would be malnourished. The children are also very picky. They don’t eat skins or spit out seeds. They will be messed up for a while, and they have to clean up for a long time... Therefore, communicate well with the elderly and the children should not be disturbed when they are studying.
If you just read a book and don’t need other tools, put all your pads, mobile phones, pencils, and erasers in other rooms or out of reach of children. Electronic products remain closed or muted.
If you use a pad to learn, you must ensure that it can only be used for learning. We used to play a WeChat mini-game for Guoguo. Once we played it, we couldn't control it. Later, no matter how he cried and protested, we never played any game for him again. Children in kindergarten and junior grades should not be exposed to any video games. If you are nearsighted because of learning, you can still gain some gains; because of playing games, it is too uneconomical.
If children have to do homework in elementary school, teach them to keep all the necessities such as workbooks, pencils, textbooks, and water within reach. allows them to get the necessary items without standing up. The time for concentration is only that, standing up looking for something, it is easy for thoughts to drift elsewhere.
04
Form the habit of
to make a daily schedule for children, do not need to be too detailed, otherwise it will be difficult to implement.
For us, the most fixed arrangement is after 7pm. From 7 to 8 is mostly learning time, 5-10 minutes of activity time is arranged every half hour.
can print out the form at first and post it on the wall to remind them. After a long time, the various arrangements will be put in the children's heads.
Actually, the only things we can fix every day are: 1) study time after 7 o'clock, 2) rest 5-10 minutes every half an hour; 3) prepare to go to bed at 8:45. As for the daily tasks, as children’s interests change, they will be adjusted over time. After
persists for a period of time, children will become more conscious. He has fully accepted this type of arrangement and will no longer think that there should be other things to do after 7 o'clock. Of course, there is still so much free time before seven o'clock for him to arrange at will.
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"static" in "moving"
5-10 minutes of rest is also very important. At first, even though I was with him, Guoguo was unwilling to look far away. So I simply asked him to walk downstairs or skip rope. But don't sweat it profusely, just move it a little bit.
Later, I saw some related studies. If children can release their excessive energy between the two learning tasks, it will help improve the level of concentration in the subsequent learning process. Even adults who sit there for an hour or two will end up staggering and dizzy, not to mention the children. Timely activities in the middle of can improve concentration, rest your eyes, and avoid the threat to your health caused by sitting for long periods of time.
Regardless of whether you choose to go downstairs, before or during the preparation activity, you should tell the child the next arrangements, or give him a few options to choose first. Take reading as an example. Before the event, you have to quickly decide which book to read or which story to listen to next, otherwise they will pick and choose and waste a lot of time. For this reason, watching raz, parents are gradually willing to buy collections instead of separate books, which can save too much time for selection...
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naps can improve concentration
Guoguo rarely takes a nap in kindergarten. If he didn't sleep at all at noon and didn't rest well the night before, he would be particularly restless at night, and every minute would be torment. Even if I only slept for ten minutes and twenty minutes at noon, the state was completely different.
We didn't develop a good lunch break habit for him, and we envied the kindergarten children who can fall asleep.
As the age increases, more and more children do not take a nap. Elementary school students leave school early, and if they can take a 5 minute 10 minute nap without affecting their sleep at night, they will definitely be able to improve follow-up attention.
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Establish a reward system
rewards can be material, but also spiritual.
I have set a medium and long-term mission, and reward the London Bridge puzzle after completion. But this is also occasional. If used frequently, it will make children confused about the purpose of learning.
recommends that most of the time, use verbal praise with a heart-felt heart, such as: "When you did the calculation problem just now, you were more serious than before, and you were never distracted. Keeping this state, you will be able to get faster and faster and more accurate. They can also rise.", "When I was reading the ancient poems, my voice was loud, clear sentences, full of emotions, and in a good state." Appropriate verbal encouragement can make them full of energy.
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Dismantling the heavy task
I once spent hundreds to buy a three-dimensional London Bridge puzzle (the reward for the above task), but I found it too complicated when I bought it. It is simply an artifact of exercise (torture). The small piece is almost a few hundred pieces, and it must be spelled according to the serial number. The
kids have to lose faith when they look at it. If you finish it all at once, at least an hour. It is too wasteful to buy it and throw it aside.
So, we dismantled it into several steps to complete, 1) first put together the bridge piers and bridge deck; 2) group all the small pieces of puzzles by serial numbers, and make a group of ten in a row; 3) sort each group by serial number; 4) According to the serial number, spell the left first, then the right...
follow the above steps, complete at different times of the day, and finally complete the finished product...
In fact, learning is the same. For example, if you want children to read a thick book at a time, it will be very difficult. It's better to disassemble the task, concentrate once, and spend 20-40 minutes (depending on age) watching a part. Over time, there is always one day to finish reading.
Look, is there any better way?
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