What should I do if my child has difficulty concentrating? How can I make five minutes of parent-child reading better than an hour?

The younger the baby is, the shorter his attention span is. Especially if the baby is under 2 years old and closes the book/crawls/runs away before listening to a few pages, this is within the normal range. At the beginning, I couldn’t listen to more than a few pages before grabbing it and chewing it. After some guidance, by 6 months, we were able to finish 1-2 board books at a time. I believe that you may have \”other people\’s children\” around you who can finish listening to several picture books in a few months. However, what is important in parent-child reading is the vertical comparison of the baby\’s own progress, not the horizontal comparison. So if your baby only has the patience to listen to one book at a time, how to maximize the value of these few minutes of shared reading time? My latest experience is to mobilize the baby\’s whole body. Visually and auditorily pleasing picture books, such as traditional Chinese children\’s songs and rhyming English texts, can easily attract the baby\’s attention. When reading a picture book to your baby, you can point out what you read while reading, such as in \”The Very Hungry Caterpillar\”: On Monday, he ate through one apple (point out the apple) He was a beautiful butterfly (point out the butterfly) 4 Babies under 6 months old can only see blurry images because their vision is still developing. It is recommended to choose picture books with contrasting colors (even black and white). Integrating physical feelings into personal reading is easily overlooked, and this is what I have been doing consciously when I was enlightening Guozi to read. In fact, the first time I did this was inspired by the teacher in Guozi Music’s early childhood education class. While she plays and sings, she will ask parents to tap the baby\’s body along with the rhythm, so that they can connect with the music not only through hearing, but also through body. For example, when reading \”Brown Bear\”, gently shake the baby\’s body according to the rhythm: Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? I See a Red Bird Looking at Me, or tap lightly with your fingers while reading like a beat. The baby\’s body (legs, shoulders, and feet are all acceptable), the rhythm and the rhythm of reading should be consistent. My personal experience is that this kind of \”drum beat\” can easily arouse the baby\’s interest, and it is easy to finish reading a book. Some people may question the significance of parent-child reading before one year old. If you don’t understand it anyway, why should you read it? In fact, reading before one year old is largely just to familiarize children with the act of reading, the existence of books, and how we use a book. Don’t underestimate this process. The movements of parents turning pages, familiar voices, day after day, the images in the book and the sound of reading can leave a deep imprint on the baby’s heart and make reading a part of growth (Full text over).