In terms of family education, parents should pay special attention to it. There is an old saying: Look at the elders at the age of three, and look at the old at the age of four. Educating children must start from an early age and be strict. I have always maintained that a strict teacher will produce a good disciple, but for cultivating interests, we need to look at the child's talent, observe what he (she) is interested in, and then guide him (her) to learn unconsciously, so that over time, he or she will be very interested in what he or she has learned. If you are interested, once you find that your child is talented in a certain area and is particularly interested in it, hire a professional teacher to teach it. This will make it easier to succeed.
Parents are their children’s first teachers, and their words and deeds have a direct impact on their children’s lives. I am a preschool teacher of 6 years and a mother. My son is almost three years old and about to start kindergarten. You should be more experienced than others in dealing with children's education. I have met a variety of students with different personalities and have read many books on educating children. So there are some feasible ways to cultivate children's interests. For example, I have very strict requirements on my son, but I also try my best to meet his interests and needs. He wanted a plane, so I bought him similar toys to expose him to more new things.
1. Parents and children work together to explore and cultivate their children’s interests and hobbies
An education expert said: Parents are natural educational talents. Study the growth history of outstanding people, and you will find that their success has a factor that cannot be ignored - they have a father or mother who is good at educating their children. How can we become a parent who is good at educating? Merely making demands, strict discipline or blindly praising are not the best ways. Parents who are good at educating their children should create an environment and opportunities for them to participate in activities together. During the same activities, you can not only understand the child's behavioral characteristics, but also gain insight into the child's inner world. You can also experience happiness with the child, thereby discovering and cultivating the child's interests and hobbies. Parents can make full use of weekends and holidays to go to stores, parks, or take a walk in the woods with their children, and pay attention to products, books, scenery, etc. that their children are interested in. In addition, parents can also write, draw, read, do paper crafts, repair daily necessities, and do housework with their children... When children participate in activities together with their parents, their interests and hobbies will be clearly shown.
2. Patient education to promote the development of children’s interests
Children’s interest in anything is not innate, but cultivated. As a parent, I attach great importance to the cultivation of children's multi-faceted abilities. Because in my generation, most parents have given birth to five or six children. They can only take care of our food and clothing. They have no time to teach us to study, let alone cultivate their children's interests. So, I want to teach this lesson to my son. According to the child's personality characteristics and hobbies, let him participate in some useful extracurricular activities. Children's plasticity is very strong, as long as parents pay attention to their cultivation. Therefore, when it comes to educating my son in the future, I always say this: "Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are determined," and you must have a hard-working spirit.
3. Guide correctly and choose valuable interests for your children
As my children grow older, I seek my son’s opinions and let him choose what interests him. Because "interest is the best teacher", if a person is interested in something, his initiative will be fully utilized. Therefore, as a parent, when dealing with children's interests, you cannot just give your children a pen or a book, but you should master a set of scientific and effective methods to guide your children correctly so that they can fully develop their potential.
4. Build confidence and help children establish interest persistence
Children’s interests show a certain degree of instability. In daily life, I always pay attention to my son’s interests, and they will change with time. Change with the passage of time. After all, children are young and have very little self-awareness, let alone perseverance. Therefore, as a parent, you cannot just take care of things on a whim, sometimes taking care of things and sometimes ignoring them. In this way, things will be counterproductive and it will be inconvenient to educate children. But don’t treat your children too much. When you see your children’s progress bit by bit, you should encourage and promote them in time to enhance their self-confidence. When my children are learning to paint, I save their works and take them out often. Let him see and compare for himself, experience progress and build confidence. Also give children an opportunity to show themselves on appropriate occasions and exercise their abilities.
5. Support children and promote a wide range of interests in children
A child’s interests are like a child’s stomach. They are born ready to accept any “food”, but due to the external environment They have been nurtured silently for a long time, and they show different levels of interest in different things. It is the responsibility of every parent to guide their children to love reading. Once a child develops a strong interest in reading, he will ignite the fire of wisdom to seek knowledge. In this way, you will pave a sunny path for your child's success. Cultivating children's interest in reading can change their temperament and cultivate their noble minds. As parents, we must do our best to explore children's interests and create a good atmosphere for them. In addition, children's own interests should be respected and children should be encouraged to actively accept interests. Parents should often take the initiative to let their children participate in some extracurricular interest classes. This can not only enrich their children's knowledge and broaden their horizons, but also cultivate their children's interests.
At the same time, it can also develop children's thinking, thereby improving their ability to analyze and solve problems.
In short, how to discover children’s interests? No one can discover their interests better than parents. Therefore, parents should create opportunities to expand their children's horizons. It is a child's nature to develop children's interests through games. Some educational games can also stimulate children's interest in a certain thing. At the same time, because the child is relatively young, he often only relies on curiosity and enthusiasm for things he is interested in at the beginning. Therefore, parents should guide him to explore and think from his interests, and gain scientific knowledge from his interests, so that he can maintain his interest for a long time. Being indifferent to children's interests is a taboo for parents. Learn to encourage children. Parents are the first authoritative evaluators in children's minds, and they are eager to be recognized by their parents. If parents always "beat" their children, they may destroy their desire for knowledge. Therefore, when children do well, parents can praise them in a timely manner, but when children do poorly or fail, they must first discover their children's creative side and then encourage them.
In kindergarten, as a preschool education worker, I know very well that Confucius has long said that teachers should "teach students in accordance with their aptitude." In the practice of early childhood education, I have deeply realized that in addition to "teaching without fixed methods", it should also conform to the characteristics of early childhood education and achieve "teaching without fixed times". Children's life is the classroom, and there is no clear boundary between learning and playing. Learning is also playing, and playing is also learning. Therefore, the education of young children should be flexibly arranged according to specific situations.
First of all, the education of young children should ensure that homework is not scheduled. The "0-year-old plan" emphasizes that children should learn through play and learn through play, so that they can learn knowledge and skills without knowing it. Therefore, there is no absolute homework time for young children. Teachers should flexibly control it according to the specific situation. I remember once organizing a game for children: "Baby Rabbit is so capable", which lasted for fifteen minutes. At that time, the children's enthusiasm was fully mobilized and strongly expressed, and their desire to continue playing was very strong. But because I considered that I could not overtime and assign homework, I gently stifled the children's desires, causing some children to express feelings of loss and dissatisfaction, and they did not do their homework well. Later, after being reminded by experts, I suddenly realized.
Secondly, children’s activities are colorful, their interests are rich and broad, and their curiosity is endless. Therefore, the education of young children should be carried out anytime and anywhere without time constraints. As long as children are interested, their curiosity and attention should be utilized in a timely manner to allow them to perceive, understand and remember, thereby making up for the shortcomings of classroom teaching. When organizing outdoor walks for children, I often guide them to pay attention to the things they see around them and provide cognitive education, such as trees, bamboos, flowers, street signs, shops, etc., so that they can name them; when meeting older people, let the children say : "Hello grandpa!" and "Hello grandma!" to carry out polite education; sometimes organize children to carry out practical perception activities. Some things can be touched and smelled by children to deepen their perceptual understanding. Supplement and expand teaching content as appropriate, and conduct education through multiple channels and in multiple directions.
Thirdly, "teaching without time" is also reflected in the fact that the education of young children should not be restricted by age periods. For children who are still young and have slow reactions, they should be carefully and patiently given individual tutoring; for children who are older than other children, have strong comprehension and develop quickly, the learning content can be deepened appropriately, and there is no need to follow the rules and follow the steps. I once discovered that a child had a strong language recognition ability, so I consciously guided her to learn more Chinese characters. Every time, she was very involved and could master it quickly. By praising and encouraging her, I used her enthusiasm to drive the class and enhance the learning atmosphere. This shows that in teaching, we must be good at distinguishing and treating different situations correctly, using strengths and avoiding weaknesses, using points to lead, and using aspects to promote points, so that the potential of each child can be brought into play.
In short, whether it is family education or kindergarten education, attention must be paid to the cultivation of children's interests. As a teacher of early childhood education, education cannot be understood as simple classroom teaching, but limited to a certain time and space. Flexible methods should be adopted to achieve "teaching without timing" and strive to improve the quality of education. There are many ways and methods to cultivate children's interests, hobbies and specialties, and they cannot be generalized. Each parent should teach students in accordance with their aptitude according to their own different conditions and children's different performances. The whole society should work together, so as to cultivate the talents that the motherland needs. Talent.