Although the article is a bit long, it will be useful to children for life.

(Estimated reading time 10 minutes)

As a new parent, are you anxious about your child's behavior?

The above problems are caused by children's inattention!

So what is concentration?

Concentration, also called attention, refers to a person's mental state when he is absorbed in something or an activity. People's attention is influenced by many factors, and attention deficit is often the common feature of many students with poor learning.

Then why is the child not paying enough attention? There are probably the following points; Some research data show that children's concentration changes with age:

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Physiological aspect

Because the child's brain development is not perfect, the nervous system is not balanced in the process of excitation and inhibition, so the self-control ability is poor. This is normal. With proper education, most children can concentrate when they grow up.

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Pathological aspect

Poor development of fine movements, coordinated movements and spatial position consciousness will lead to ADHD in children, which is mainly manifested in inattention, hyperactivity, impulsive willfulness, emotional instability, abnormal behavior and learning difficulties.

In addition, children with hearing or visual impairment will be mistaken for deaf, not paying attention to listening or turning a blind eye, and lacking the will to learn. These conditions need to be treated under the guidance of experts to improve.

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Diet and environment

Candy, caffeinated drinks or foods mixed with artificial colors, additives and preservatives can stimulate children's emotions and affect their concentration. In addition, the high blood lead content caused by environmental pollution also has an impact.

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Family aspect

Parenting attitudes and living habits at home have a great influence on children's behavior, which is often the most important factor affecting children. However, people who are obsessed with the authorities often cannot objectively find out the crux of the problem. From the following aspects, we may find some reasons.

(1) Are you too fond of children and lack of code of conduct? Excessive doting will lead to connivance of children, and often let children do whatever they want. Without the concept of patience, restraint and overcoming difficulties, it is naturally difficult to calm down and carry things through to the end.

② Did you buy too many toys or books for your children? There are too many external stimuli. Playing with cars and looking for other toys, changed again and again, toys only bring temporary attraction to children, and they can't feel the fun of exerting imagination and creativity during playing.

③ Is the pace of family life too fast? When parents are busy with business and public affairs, they emphasize efficiency in everything. Children with slow pace are forced to spin around in the fast, fast and fast rhythm, and there is no time to finish one thing slowly and intently.

Are there too many activities at home? Too many children can't provide a quiet environment, and life is always spent in a floating atmosphere. Without a child with strong self-control, it is difficult to establish good concentration.

⑤ Have you accumulated any unpleasant experiences during your study? The textbooks provided to children are too deep or too shallow, which is not easy to arouse interest in learning, while poor guiding skills, or situations that often lead to opening on a whim and finally crying, will make children feel excluded from learning and naturally unable to concentrate on learning.

6. Does the child have emotional and academic pressure? If children feel that they can't meet their parents' expectations, etc. These pressures can easily make children appear emotional.

⑦ Are there too many criticisms and accusations against children? Too much criticism may give a child a bad hint and make him feel that he can't do it well anyway, so he won't concentrate when doing things.

Are children affected by too much bad information? Bad film and television works instill and pollute the bad behavior of older children, which will make them psychologically distorted and behave abnormally.

Ushinski, a famous Russian educator, commented on concentration like this:

Concentration is one of the five basic elements of intelligence, and it is the preparation state of memory, observation, imagination and thinking, so attention is called the door of the soul.

How to improve children's concentration according to these factors?

First: Encourage children to do only one thing at a time.

Children's attention is limited, and if they do many things at the same time, it will definitely cause confusion. In particular, when children complete a task, they are interfered by other things at the same time, which will damage the effective concentration of attention.

Second: guide children to make time plans.

Guide them to manage their time well. First, they can be clear about their tasks. Second, it can increase their sense of time. After adding a "tightening spell" to the goal, you can increase your "concentration" when completing the task.

If your child can do well every time and get better, you can try to increase the time to do the problem gradually.

Third, create a learning environment for children.

This environment includes two aspects. First, the room is quiet to ensure that children are not disturbed by other sounds when reading and writing.

Second: Clean single desk, and put away all the cartoons, stickers and small toys that are easy to attract attention.

Fourth: Don't interrupt children easily.

Don't interrupt easily when children are absorbed in what they are interested in.

For example, when children concentrate on playing with building blocks or studying toys, they can wait patiently for a few minutes to encourage them to keep thinking, although it delays the family's purchase plan.

As Montessori famously said, "Never disturb children unless you are invited."

Fifth, insist on reading training.

Reading training can require eyes, mouth, heart and hands to coordinate with each other in a short time and be highly concentrated.

If children can insist on reading training at a fixed time every day (10- 15 minutes), they can also increase their concentration ability in repeated attempts.

Sixth: Encourage children to cultivate interest.

Interest is the best teacher. Compared with other things, they are more likely to immerse themselves in things they are interested in, which is also to cultivate their attention unintentionally.

Eighth: cooperate with children to do some small games that can effectively improve their attention.

For example, repeating numbers

Adults began to quote a few simple numbers for children to repeat. Adults keep adding a number to make children repeat.

Only increase one digit at a time. For example, adults report "135", children repeat, adults report "1354", children repeat, adults report "13545", children repeat, and so on.

Insist on increasing one or more digits every day than the previous day. I believe that in continuous training, you can enhance your memory and increase your concentration time. There are many such games, so parents can check them online.

Focus: Exercise is the most effective direct method to improve children's concentration.

In medicine, the drug "altruism", which is often used to treat "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder", promotes the secretion of dopamine in the brain, thus improving the focusing ability of patients. This is the physiological basis of concentration. In fact, as long as you participate in physical exercise moderately, you can promote the brain to produce more dopamine, and at the same time secrete neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine, which is also good for attention and memory.

In order to verify this statement, researchers at the University of Illinois conducted an experiment. The experimental results all point to the same conclusion-physical exercise is conducive to improving children's concentration level. This is undoubtedly an important step to improve children's brain development.

Studies have shown that sports such as football, judo, gymnastics, volleyball, shooting and so on, which require complex skills and strictly follow the rules, are more conducive to stimulating brain vitality and keeping children focused to complete the dual challenges of physical strength and brain power.

This is because sports with strict rules and complex skills can help children learn to get rid of irrelevant information, keep their focus on learning rules, avoid mistakes, improve their skills and work hard, all of which meet the core requirements of good learning or working ability. In fact, this is the way to cultivate and point to specific content under the premise of high concentration.

However, because this kind of sports belongs to the field of difficult special skills, it requires high physical load; Any special sport has special requirements for physical fitness.

Without the support of basic physical fitness, special skills will be reduced to flowery boxing and embroidered legs, which is more likely to directly cause sports injuries. Parents must respect the law of children's growth and development in physical exercise.

For more information about the relationship between basic physical fitness and special physical fitness, please refer to how terrible it is for children without physical fitness to train special sports prematurely.

To win physical fitness, we can set different physical training goals according to children's physical differences, step by step, so that children can gradually adapt to training and improve their concentration. Parents can also encourage or guide their children and even accompany them to exercise, which can not only protect their safety, but also enhance parent-child communication. It is really multifaceted.