Раннее развитие ребенка: плюсы и минусы развивающих занятий

Every responsible parent strives to give his child the best, tries to take care of his future in advance. But today, concern for the future begins, without exaggeration, from diapers. We are talking about  the early development of a child, when "great goals" are set before an unintelligent kid. and laying the road to his genius.

But so is the very useful of it it it it will bring unpleasant in into the future?

The brain of a child can be compared to a blank canvas, on which patterns of memory, attention, creative and logical thinking, and many other patterns”are gradually emerging.

But the development of a child is inextricably linked with his personal experience: only when he encounters something, he puts in  "the piggy bank of knowledge" conclusions drawn or acquired skills, gradually expanding the base of their skills.

Accordingly, early development classes help the baby to get the maximum amount of experience with the minimum amount of time spent. The question is how to build such classes so that they are useful.

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There are only a few principles to follow:

    Focus on the basic level of the child.
  • This is the most important rule: before proceeding to developmental activities, it is important to assess the level of readiness of the child and strictly adhere to it. 

    For example, if the baby is still with  pronounces syllables with difficulty, lessons should be built not on learning colloquial speech, but on consolidating and expanding the "syllable skill". In  in a playful way, the child should be offered to repeat the syllables already familiar to him, and when it gets better — add new sound combinations to your activities.

    • Complexity of classes.
  • Many parents who independently develop their child do not take into account that the overall development of — it is a combination of a lot of knowledge and & nbsp; skills. For example, memory cannot be developed without prior development of concentration, distribution and stability of attention, and an increase in its volume.            

    Therefore, consider these factors when developing your lesson plan.

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With the right approach to  development of the baby, you quickly see the pluses:

Improve the child's communication skills — it becomes easier for him to communicate with his peers.

  • The ability to remember more and more information.

  • Ability to operate with both logical and abstract concepts — it becomes easier for the child to navigate in mathematical concepts and solve creative problems.

  • The ability to freely express one's thoughts, desires, complaints, describe emotions — this greatly strengthens the relationship with parents and friends and allows everyone to understand each other better.

  • The listed benefits of early development are impressive. But it should be remembered that this is possible only with a competent approach to classes and an individually formed lesson plan.

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Early child development: invisible but dangerous disadvantages

Unfortunately, with an unprofessional approach to early development of a child, you may not notice how the effect will turn out to be the opposite.

The most common "complications" are: parental attempts to turn a child into a genius:

The child develops aversion to learning any new knowledge and skills.

  • A plateau effect occurs, in which the child has successfully mastered the previous material, but is not able to move on.

  • Neurotic disorders caused by a high level of intellectual stress.

  • Disharmonious development, in which the child has achieved significant success in  one direction (for example, in  logical thinking), but at the same time he has a pronounced deficit in abstract, creative thinking.

  • Special mention should be made of the consequences that may affect the whole life of the child. This is a low self-esteem and doubt in himself, due to the understanding that he does justify the expectations of parents or teachers.
And in addition, each of the  listed "cons" requires corrective treatment by specialists in the field of child psychology, neuropsychology, defectology.

Therefore, the most correct decision would be to entrust early development to professional teachers. Their experience and ability will help your baby to develop harmoniously and comprehensively, and reach more and new heights.

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