It is a common phenomenon for 3-year-old babies in kindergartens in modern China to memorize Tang poetry. Many babies can already memorize a lot of Tang poetry at a young age, and even many difficult Tang poems that adults find difficult to memorize can be easily picked up by young babies, which is truly admirable. Is it good for a three-year-old baby to memorize Tang poetry?
1、 Two year old baby recites' Red Cliff Memories' for parents to emulate
A two-year-old and nine month old baby can recognize 2000 Chinese characters and memorize more than 100 Tang and Song poems. They are not short poems, but rather high difficulty poems such as "Red Cliff Nostalgia" and "Water Tune Singing Head". Causing countless parents to marvel and emulate. But is this correct?
Do you remember your friend before the age of five? Do you remember what you did before the age of 5? Not to mention being 3 years old! Pediatricians say that memorizing Tang and Song poems to children before the age of 3 is not only futile, but also harmful to them! Learning English at the age of 2 and doing math Olympiad at the age of 3 are popular early education programs that take advantage of parents' eagerness for their children to succeed and earn a lot of money! According to statistics, most children who can recite poetry at the age of two or play chess at the age of three tend to return to calmness as they grow up.
2、 Why is it harmful for children under 3 years old to memorize Tang and Song poems
Because children under the age of 3 who memorize Tang and Song poems only engage in simple imitation and forced memorization, this type of compulsive memory can damage the child's brain, suppress their memory in the early stages, make them overly nervous, and cause harm to both their physical and intellectual abilities. The underlying reason is that this compulsive learning can prompt young children to mobilize their entire body to cope, just like how primitive humans experience an increase in heart rate and blood flow when faced with attacks from others. This is actually an emergency response that the human body mobilizes to preserve its survival and evolution. However, if children maintain this tense state for a long time, it can damage the memory parts of the brain and may also lead to a decrease in their immunity, causing various diseases.
In addition, early childhood education experts remind that high-intensity learning at an early age can cause children to become tired of learning. Not only can it fail to achieve the desired learning effect, but it can also lead to feelings of fear and resistance towards learning. Once children start school, it is difficult to reverse their boredom.
3、 So, what should parents aged 0-3 do better
In some countries abroad, maternity leave for mothers is set at 1 or 3 years. From the perspective of children's developmental characteristics, children aged 0-3 should mainly be accompanied by their parents.
1) The importance of companionship for children aged 0-3 is beyond imagination:
The United States launched an experiment in 2000. Among the children investigated in the experiment, one group is the children raised at home who have never lived in the nursery, one group is the children left in the nursery, and one group is the children whose condition has improved after being picked up. The experiment uses different methods to measure the early development of these children. It was found that children who grew up in daycare in the early stages had problems with language, social emotional abilities, emotions, and psychology. Children who grow up in daycare in the early stages have significantly smaller brain volumes compared to those who receive normal care due to a lack of opportunities for interaction and communication, including smaller gray and white matter volumes in the brain. However, for young children who leave daycare in the early stages, the care conditions are improved, and the white matter in the brain partially recovers, but the development of the gray matter is difficult to improve.
In addition, early childhood education experts tell you that children aged 0-3 need stable and secure attachment relationships. If they spend most of their time separated from their parents, they will lack a sense of security, leading to a crisis of trust. They will not trust others in the future and will not be trusted by others.
2) How should parents of children aged 0-3 accompany their children
In addition to communicating and talking to their children more, and giving them sufficient love, parents can also engage in parent-child games with their children, such as playing ball games and building blocks. These parent-child activities not only exercise the baby's eye, hand, and foot coordination abilities, but also develop the baby's creativity and cultivate their hands-on and brainpower abilities, which are beneficial for future knowledge learning.
At the same time, it is the responsibility of parents to bring 0-3 year old babies closer to nature. Because there is an area in the cerebral cortex of young babies that requires them to listen to wind, rain, bird songs in a natural state... The different frequencies of these sounds can stimulate the development of children's visual and auditory systems.
I understand that parents always use how many Tang poems their children have memorized to test whether their children are smart or just a little prodigy. In fact, reciting Tang poetry by a three-year-old baby not only gives parents some vanity, but also has many harmful effects. Therefore, do not let your baby receive this kind of training so early.
