How harmful is it for children to become literate too early? One of these has a lifelong impact!

This time, I was admitted to the primary school entrance examination, but my childhood sweetheart Xiao Douding was not admitted. Xiao Douding went to an early childhood education institution when he was one year old, and also enrolled in language classes, dance classes, and piano classes. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are no problem. He can read 1,500 words and can memorize three or four Tang poems. However, Dabao\’s literacy level is only about 500, and addition and subtraction can only be relatively simple. However, the results of the entrance examination are not satisfactory. Is the so-called early education really beneficial to the growth of babies? Or are parents simply not clear about what early childhood education teaches? Does being more literate also affect growth? Early education ≠ Early teaching 0-3 years old is a critical period for a child’s development, an explosive period of emotion, social interaction, and language. 75% of brain development is completed before the age of 3 years. Real early education should be early education, based on the baby\’s brain development rhythm. When the baby is 0-6 years old, based on the child\’s physical, psychological and sensitive period performance, targeted development of their potential and cultivation of their personality , emotion, language, art and many other aspects of development. Nowadays, many parents believe that their children’s education should start from the starting line. They should recite Tang poetry and Song lyrics, and the rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division from an early age. They believe that the more they recite and the more they know, the intellectual development will be higher than that of children of the same age. Premature literacy is tantamount to trying to encourage early literacy. It will not enhance children\’s memory or develop their brains. Instead, it will have many negative effects. 01 Mary, a neuroscientist with dyslexia, pointed out: Reading requires the functional integration and use of different parts of the brain, and requires the simultaneous mobilization of auditory, visual, language and other brain division functions. These functions require the cooperation of the baby\’s \”myelin sheath\” before they can be integrated and used smoothly, but a child\’s myelin sheath can generally be formed only between the ages of 5 and 7 years old. If children are allowed to read too early, their physiological functions will not be able to cooperate well with the steps of literacy and character recognition. On the contrary, it will make them resist and cause reading difficulties. 02 Destroying imagination and letting children learn to read too early, or self-righteously forcing them to develop a good habit of reading will destroy their imagination. Parents use unified and standard answers to limit the baby\’s boundless imagination. It is foolish to use limited knowledge to limit your baby\’s unlimited imagination. 03 The harm gradually breaks out. The \”China Ministry of Education\’s Guidelines for the Development of Children Aged 3~6\” mentions that it is against mechanical, large-scale, and early teaching of literacy and reading to children before the age of 6. The United States once compared 39 early childhood education kindergartens with 39 traditional kindergartens. Children who just started early childhood education did have higher abilities and knowledge reserves. However, in the senior grades of elementary school, their advantages decreased and they were not as good as students in traditional kindergartens. Learning early ≠ has advantages. The American psychologist Gothel did an experiment called \”Twin Ladder Climbing Experiment.\” He chose some twins with the same physique, basically the same height and health status. The elder brother started learning to climb stairs four weeks earlier than the younger brother, but the younger brother learned to climb stairs in a shorter time and achieved better results. At the same time, Gosser also conducted research on children and adults of different ages, including study, work, etc., and finally found that: everyone has an \”optimal educational period\”, and we do notTo encourage growth, it must be in line with the baby\’s development level and speed. During their sensitive period, training them in certain skills can not only meet their psychological needs, but also educate and entertain them. \”Three Steps\” for Literacy Learning Children\’s literacy needs to start from their interests and conform to individual development rules. It can be cultivated and improved in three stages. The first step is to create a reading environment. Babies under 3 years old can explore the environment, perceive things, and form cognition of concepts through touch, hearing, and vision. Parents must first create a good reading environment for them, let them feel the shape and meaning of words, fix a reading time, and cultivate their reading habits. The second step is to establish the connection between words and real objects. When babies are 3 to 5 years old, they are very interested in literacy and are in a sensitive period for literacy. How to determine a child\’s sensitive period? If mom and dad are reading a picture book to their baby, the baby will repeatedly ask what is this and what is that? What does it all mean? Or when they go outdoors, they associate the meaning of words with objects in real life, then they have reached the sensitive stage of literacy. Many parents will teach their children a lot of literacy at this time, which is actually incorrect. First of all, we need to help them solve every question. Don\’t always judge a child\’s growth utilitarianly by the number of words they can read. If parents can calm down and solve their children\’s questions one by one, it will help their children remember the words with strong interest in learning. The third step is to understand words and sentences. Before the age of 6, children understand the content of the text from the surrounding environment; after the age of 6, children begin to feel the surrounding environment from the content of the text to understand the meaning expressed in words and sentences. Before the age of 6, children should focus on playing, exploring the environment and understanding the world in play, rather than reading a lot, writing a lot, or attending interest classes that they are not interested in. They need to establish connections between themselves and the world through play and exploration.