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With the improvement of living standards, the younger generation attaches great importance to children’s education, especially those born in the 80s and 90s. Beautiful Mom’s friend Xiaoshu is one of them. one. When she was pregnant with her son, she had these words from the Japanese picture book master Nao Matsui deeply ingrained in her mind, "Reading to children is like traveling to the Land of Storytelling hand in hand with them. *** Sharing a happy time full of warm words," she believed deeply, so she started reading picture books to her son from the newborn period. Even during the most difficult confinement period, when she didn't get enough sleep every day, she still insisted on reading 10 books every night. minute.

However, her sister is completely opposite to her. She thinks that the child is still young and cannot understand when read to him. When the child grows up, he will naturally read if he loves to read, so he hardly reads picture books to him. Children listen. As a result, the distance between the two cousins, who were only one month apart in age, gradually widened four years later. According to Xiaoshu's observation, the difference between the two cousins ??is mainly reflected in these five aspects:

1) Richer vocabulary

The biggest educational effect of reading picture books is to give children sensibility with a wealth of knowledge. 0-2 years old, although the baby cannot understand words well, if parents read picture books to the baby every day, the baby will gain the experience of listening to language with ears, just like eating, the baby will eat the language he hears bit by bit. , although I don’t remember exactly what I ate, it will slowly transform into energy and eventually grow into bones, blood and flesh. As time goes by, the baby will have the ability to understand language. By the time they are 2-5 years old, they can learn some new words from picture books and stories every day that are not used in daily conversations. Over time, children who read picture books every day will master a natural vocabulary. It is richer than children who do not read picture books.

Xiaoshu knows this very well. Her son can pronounce various syllables when he is 3 months old. When he is 1 year old, he will produce some single words from time to time. By the time he is 2 years old, he can express comparisons. Short complete sentences. Xiaoshu usually likes to make various children's snacks for her two cousins. When she asks the two little guys how they taste, her son Noonuo will say, "delicious" or "delicious" or "very sweet". And her sister's son Liuliu can only say "delicious".

2) I am very close to my mother and talk about almost everything.

A mother once told me that watching TV can also enrich her child’s language experience. I retorted to her, "But people on TV can't hold your children." The most trustworthy bond between people is love. An Italian educator said, "It is not enough to love children, they must also feel loved." The mother puts the baby on her lap, reads picture books to the children with warm and vivid words, and vividly reproduces the world in the pictures. Conveying one's own values ????to children not only enriches the children's thoughts, but also feels the mother's body temperature while listening, and instinctively feels that they are loved.

Xiaoshu said more than once that she had such a close relationship with Nono thanks to her insistence on reading picture books. Nono returned to work after she was 2 years old. She got off work at eight or nine every day. She didn't spend much time with her children in a day, but she never missed reading picture books because it was the most enjoyable part of the day for both mother and son. happiest moments. Thanks to this, the lively and elf-like Nono shares some interesting things about the kindergarten with her mother every day, talking about everything like two friends. And his cousin Liuliu won't talk to his mother about kindergarten. He doesn't usually talk to his mother. When he comes back, he either watches TV or plays with toy cars.

3) Richer imagination

When a child reads a picture book or listens to his parents reading a picture book, various scenarios will appear in the child's mind, fully mobilizing his brain. The information and knowledge gained were used to construct what his ideal story would look like. In this process, children will also connect what they see or hear in the pictures with things in the real world, which can fully cultivate children's imagination and thinking ability and improve children's sensitivity to external things. Xiaoshu observed that Nuonuo usually likes to make up various short stories, and then tell them vividly to his cousin Liuliu; in his "paintings", the flowers are round and the leaves are triangular; when playing with building blocks, he will He can play all kinds of ingenious tricks and always remain standing as long as he is not pushed. However, his cousin Liuliu's creativity and imagination are obviously much inferior.

4) Stronger memory

Japanese neurosurgeon Hayashi Shigeyuki (a leading expert in the field of brain cognition) believes that “the brain has the ability to enhance memory by overlapping information from all angles. Mechanism, and hippocampal neurons in the brain have such characteristics that they can maintain excitement through multiple information stimuli to enhance their functions. ”

Therefore, when learning, the important thing is not to look at the words. Read silently, but read aloud while looking at the pictures. If parents can read picture books to their children passionately every day, the hippocampal neurons will remain excited, thereby enhancing memory. This can be seen from Nuonuo. Normally, when the little cardinal teaches Nuonuo new words, he can remember them in an instant. If he asks them again the next day, Nuonuo can say them out in an instant, but Liuliu has to teach four or five You have to remember it several times, and many times you can’t tell it when asked the next day.

5) Higher concentration

When you first start reading picture books with your baby, your baby's attention may be relatively scattered. After reading one or two pages, your baby will just play with himself. Yes, but as long as you persist every day and use exaggerated expressions when reading, your children will feel that reading picture books is a very interesting and fun thing, and their concentration time will become longer and longer. According to Xiaoshu, when Nono was 1 year old, he could only concentrate for seven or eight minutes. When he was 2 years old, he could only concentrate for about 20 minutes. Now at 4 years old, he can concentrate for about 35 minutes. According to brain science research, the average concentration of an adult is 40-50 minutes, and that of a child is about 30 minutes. It is already very good for a 4-year-old child Nono to have such a score. You must know that every time his cousin draws or I can only play games for ten or twenty minutes.

Maybe you will say, I also know that reading picture books with my children will benefit them throughout their lives, but I am running around for life every day, and it is already very late when I get home, and I have no energy to read with my children. In fact, you don’t need to spend a lot of time. Just take 10 minutes every day. Hold your child on your knee and convey your mood and love to your child. Language is emotional and warm, and your child will gradually learn from interesting stories. Appreciate the joy of reading, slowly hide these happy times and warm memories in your heart, and gradually become a child with creativity, thinking, memory and concentration.

Hit the key points! Psychologist Nicholas pointed out that reading before going to bed can improve memory. This is because the brain has not stopped activity during sleep, and the hippocampus, the area responsible for memory, will constantly replay the knowledge learned during sleep! Therefore, it is best to read picture books with your children before going to bed!