British Renaissance writer and poet Philip Sidney once said: Memory is the only treasurer of knowledge.
Now the competition in children's learning is particularly great. With the help of good memory, children can improve a lot of efficiency. So, how does the child's memory develop? How can parents help their children improve their memory?
Early life is a critical period for memory development
According to experience, many elderly people think that children before the age of 3 are "not remembering". In brain science, this phenomenon is called "infant amnesia."
But according to research, a baby can distinguish a brand new story from the story (prenatal story) heard in the last few weeks of pregnancy within a few hours after birth.
It can be seen that the child has been in the development of memory since he was very young, even when he was a baby. The reason why
has "infancy amnesia" is actually because non-declarative memory develops before declarative memory.
Declarative memory: the ability to clearly identify and recall time, place, and people.
Non-declarative memory: It exists in the subconscious and represents various unconscious abilities, including learning habits. One of the characteristics of
non-declarative memory is that it can affect people's behavior unconsciously.
With the age of 6 years old, the rapid development of the child's brain has passed, and the rapid development of memory has also passed. Therefore, the early life of a child is a critical period for memory development.
If you want to improve your child’s memory, parents can let their children "go through three levels" before the age of 6:
First level: patience
patience seems to have nothing to do with memory, in fact, patience is determined by the ability to resist frustration, mentality and initiative Sexually determined, these abilities determine the upper limit of the child's ability to achieve in the active memory process.
exercise patience, parents should choose some relatively complicated or need to repeat things and games within the children's ability.
Or learn one or several sports, such as roller skating, table tennis, badminton, etc. according to the child's interest.
Second level: Carefully check the quality of
memory can be seen from three aspects: how long it takes to remember, how long it can be remembered, how many details can be remembered
The details of the memory need to be exercised by the child through "details off".
Parents can play some observation games with their children:
help the little animals find home
draw a few card-sized squares on the paper, put a few animal cards in random, and wait for the children to observe for a while and then take the cards away , Disrupt, let the children help the little animals return.
Small map
After taking the child out and going home, draw a small road map with the child to remind the child of the places he saw on the road, such as parks, roads, and storefronts.
who is missing?
Prepare some objects on the table, let the child observe for 10 seconds, ask the child to leave temporarily, take a few of the objects and disrupt the order, let the child observe which objects are missing.
third level: focus on
concentration can help children improve the efficiency of memory, and the more focused, the easier it is to observe the details of things.
wants to exercise children's concentration, and it is recommended that parents try not to disturb their children when they are immersed in reading, thinking and playing games (except video games).
can also teach children to play some educational games, through thinking to keep children in concentration as long as possible, and exercise concentration.
Many parents hope that I can share some books on cultivating memory. I have compiled a list of the basic books that my son has used:
"Baby Mental Mobilization" (10 volumes)
Theme: memory, observation, imagination, concentration Z1z
age: 0-3 years old
reason for the list:
This set of brain games is divided into 4 volumes of peekaboo, 2 volumes of Find Differences and 4 volumes of Big Search.
Among them, "Peekaboo" is divided into daily necessities, delicious food, beautiful clothes and sweet fruits.
"Find the Difference" is divided into children and animals.
"Big Search" is divided into zoo, kindergarten, happy farm and shape kingdom.
baby through observationThe process of thinking, answering questions can exercise memory, concentration, observation and other intellectual dimensions.
"Curious Dog Learn with You/Concentration Training" (7 volumes)
theme: concentration, memory, puzzle games
age: 3-6 years old
on the list reason:
curious dog is designed by a German professional team , There are members who specialize in education and research fields to design games, and there are special children's illustrators to draw scenes.
There are more types of games in Curious Dog, and the transition from simple to difficult in design is also more natural. The pictures are exquisite and the characters in the scene are very vivid, which immediately attracted the children. Even I found it very interesting.
These 7 game books are sorted according to the degree of difficulty. A total of 400 puzzle game questions are divided into 7 categories of puzzle thinking games according to their content! In the book
, a sticker of the Curious Dog series is presented in the middle of each volume, so that the children will love this book more!
"Children's Memory Training Book" (5 volumes)
Theme: Memory
Appropriate age: 3-6 years old
is on the list Reason:
book divides memory into 5 areas: scene memory, image description, observation memory, visual memory, Associative memory. Each volume of
contains related mini games according to the theme.
For example, in associative memory, there are 28 small games that need to remember and associate, such as number association, letter association, and image association. The observation memory focuses on the memory of the details of the picture, so the picture will be richer and the details will be more.
After 5 types of memory training, the children's various memory abilities will have better progress.
