Don’t miss your child’s reading sensitive period again and again

In the past few days, I have been so busy with house renovations. I say goodbye to my son every morning and go out, often returning home at night. Exhausted, I wanted to take a good rest. The child came to me and asked me to tell him a picture book story. Fortunately, I have developed the habit of reading, so when I am busy, I can avoid urging supervision, and my children will actively look for opportunities to read. For example, I usually have to stay at home, so in the morning, we don’t disturb each other. I read my book. He would take out his favorite picture book and lie on the edge of the bed and read for dozens of minutes. Of course, at almost four years old, he can only know more than a hundred words, so he is really an ordinary child. It’s not time to read the text yourself. But he can read pictures, and I basically explain it to him once every book is opened. Some of them have even been told several times so that the general plot is in his mind. It\’s also fun to read. And when they encounter interesting places, they will come to me excitedly and ask questions. I am afraid that my children\’s reading will be delayed because I am busy. Now it seems that this worry is unnecessary. Because children who have developed the habit of reading will often fall in love with reading. What I want to do is to let them encounter more wonderful stories, more beautiful spiritual collisions, and more beautiful words on the way to reading. Mothers often say that their children don’t like reading. What should I do? The key is to see whether the child\’s reading sensitive period has been grasped. When it comes to sensitive periods, the domestic psychology and education circles have mixed opinions. I feel that as a parent, there is no need to get into academic disputes. And I believe in the term sensitive period. One is determined by the child\’s psychological development rules. Another factor is determined by the external environment, such as social roles. Regarding the sensitive period, Montessori believed that this was a unique power given by nature to the developing life. For example, from the time a child is born to being able to walk, talk, eat, write… everything starts from scratch and completes those complex behaviors step by step. As children grow up, the best reading enlightenment begins with children. Because their minds have just opened and they are unfamiliar with the world around them. Of course, children\’s unfamiliarity and interest in everything are often a double-edged sword. I recently went to some stores to buy things on weekends and saw business parents bringing their children to work. Almost all children are playing computer games or mobile games. Another time, a child immediately lost his temper in the store because his mother interrupted him from playing games because he wanted to use the computer to check orders. The helpless mother could only apologize to the guests while yelling to calm the naughty child. At the very beginning, whatever a child comes into contact with, his mind will open in this direction. I remember a mother once said that her two-year-old child played with his mobile phone every day. If you don\’t give it to the child, the child will cry. I was very surprised at the time: How could a child over two years old fall in love with a mobile phone? What can be done? The child\’s mother said that the child just likes to look at the bright screen, can read pictures, and even use his fingers to draw. I think it\’s fun. The child\’s hand that should be paddling the sand and flipping books is paddling the phone. The eyes that should be observing the wind, birds, and flowers in nature are obsessed with the bright screen of the mobile phone. cell phoneIt has caused many adults to lose their sense of the real world. Don\’t let young children be exposed to its poison anymore. Read more story books to your little one and experience the gifts of nature. Let them know that books are a good toy and they can also go to nature to learn. Children\’s reading enlightenment can start from birth, but each stage requires different guidance from parents. On the premise of following the child\’s nature and development rules, just do it. Don\’t pursue so-called effects too much. Last time, a mother said that her child was 8 months old, but every time she read picture books to him, he had no interest and only wanted to eat the books. And after persisting for a while, he didn’t feel any effect, so he knew how to read picture books to him. Don\’t go on. The impact and changes that reading brings to children are a long-term accumulation process. Keep at it, and one day you will be surprised by your child\’s qualities and excellence. For example, we can read to a swaddled baby, reading some small sentences and familiar nursery rhymes. They will be content with the security of their gentle native language. We can also show black and white visual cards to babies who are a few months old, or let them read pictures of animals and plants. Of course, they cannot respond to us and look dull. But the absorption is going on quietly. By the time they are two or three years old, the child will make a big leap. They began to choose the themes of books by themselves, began to read some simple flip books and hole-in-the-wall books independently, and were able to communicate some details in the stories with their parents in simple language. At the age of 4, children will enter a sensitive period for reading. If parents persist in enlightenment in the previous few years, then children can easily form a good reading habit during this sensitive period. When a child\’s interest arises, his or her heart will be driven by an unstoppable motivation, causing the child to become enthusiastic about trying or learning about the specific things he is interested in. This motivation will not disappear until the inner needs are satisfied or the sensitivity weakens. . The effective accumulation of children in their infancy, such as the accumulation of feelings for books, such as the accumulation of stories and vocabulary. It will make children like books and understand them with ease. They discovered the interest of the story and the beauty of the pictures. More importantly, they received the encouragement and sweet companionship of their parents from the process of reading together. Therefore, when children are over four years old, they will enter their first sensitive period for reading. Children at this age are definitely not suitable for writing because their fingers are not flexible enough. Moreover, the reading ability is also limited. Because I am illiterate, independent reading is impossible. If I read, I need to read it several times with my parents and then review it myself. However, it is a misunderstanding to think that children do not need to read if they cannot read. Because the minds of children in the sensitive period of reading are like a fertile field, ready to receive a large amount of cultural seeds. Parents must provide their children with rich spiritual food during this critical period. Providing rich cultural information is not only about cultivating talents, but also using this period to cultivate children\’s reading habit. What parents can do is to make their children fall in love with books from an early age. Let children have good books to read, and keep children away from electronic products in terms of interest guidance.. Creating a reading atmosphere plays a very important role in cultivating children\’s reading habits. However, in the final analysis, there still needs to be a mother (father) who reads to her children. Mothers are more suitable for reading children\’s books to their children because they are more patient. Of course, during the actual promotion process, I found that more and more fathers are reading to their children. And dads have an advantage, that is, they are more fun and interesting to read and can excite their children more. Especially for some popular science books, my father is right when he talks about them, but my mothers are not so good at it. When parents and children read together, parents must first be interested. For example, the day before, the child\’s mother was reading a popular science book to her son. The two of them were talking in the room, and the son actually started playing. This is not normal. Usually when I tell him about that set of books, he will tell me another after he has told me one. Later I asked the child’s mother if she was not interested in that book. She said she talked until she wanted to sleep and she was really not interested. Of course, if what you say is not interesting, the person listening will find it even more boring. Therefore, when reading storybooks to children, you must find the interesting points of the books to combine them with life, interact with the children, and even perform role performances together. For example, in story books about dinosaurs, I would choose a character, and my son would choose a character. When we have another conversation, we feel like we are a dinosaur in a book. With this experience. Children will find reading really fun. Once a child becomes interested in books, you have to prepare more good books for the child. Fortunately, there are really many good books for children to read these days. And Yu Dad will also recommend good books to children on the platform. This is a promise given to you by a book lover.