How to Cultivate Good Study Habits in Children

Successful education begins with habit formation. The core of education is not just imparting knowledge, but learning to be human. Habits are capital stored in one's nervous system, and a person who develops good habits cannot use up its interest in his or her lifetime;

Recently, Sun Yunxiao, an expert from the China Youth Research Center, pointed out, "Habits determine a child's destiny." The power of habit is huge, once a person develops a habit, he will unconsciously run on this track, if it is a good habit, it will benefit for life, the child hours is the best period to cultivate habits, there is a formula: early education spends a kilogram of gas = late education spends a ton of gas. It shows the importance of early education. Such as: a few years ago, when dozens of Nobel Prize winners gathered, the reporter asked one of the Nobel Prize-winning scientists: "May I ask you in which university to learn what you think is the most important thing." The scientist calmly said, "In kindergarten." "What did you learn in kindergarten." "I learned to give half of my things to my partner, not to take things that are not my own, to put things away neatly, to apologize for doing something wrong, and to observe things carefully." The scientist's surprising answer speaks directly to the fact that good habits developed as a child are decisive in a person's life, and of course, the same is true for the development of study habits.

I. What are study habits?

The study habit is the special tendency of a child to perform certain activities automatically in a certain learning situation. This means that at a certain point in time, a child will automatically learn.

For example, a teacher's child went to Shanghai to participate in a national competition, the teacher who led the team came back with great emotion and said one thing: that day on the ship, after dinner, the students were on deck to watch the scenery and play, after a while, without any prompting, no one asked for, it was time to do their homework, the teacher's child went to the cabin alone to take out their books, and began to study without anyone else. The teacher, who was leading the group, lamented, "That's just habit.

In my son I am also very touching, my son is learning Go, since the first day of learning Go, I insisted that every day after 7 o'clock with him to do Go exercises, play Go, to now about more than nine months, and occasionally there are a few times when I came home late, directly to let him take a bath and go to bed, did not play the game of Go, and I did not tell him that he does not play Go today, but my son will take the initiative to remind me "Mom, today is the day to take a shower and go to bed. But my son would take the initiative to remind me, "Mom, we didn't play Go today, you forgot". It's just a habit he's gotten into over the past few months, and when it's time, he'll do it.

Second, how to guide the child's habit formation in a scientific way?

Professor Sun Yunxiao's formula is to cultivate good habits with addition; overcome bad habits with subtraction.

How do you say cultivate good habits with addition? If you want to cultivate your child's love of drawing, ask him to draw a bunny today, then draw the bunny eating grass tomorrow, then add more grass or grass, then draw a few flowers on the grass the day after that, then draw white clouds and the sun in the sky the day after that. This day by day increase, the good habit of drawing will be naturally developed.

How to overcome bad habits by subtraction? Such as children can not sit on the bench is a normal phenomenon. A careful mother to observe writing homework son, a moment to drink water, a moment to pee, less than an hour out four or five times. The mom looked in the eyes but did not rush, but the next day before the child writing homework to the child made a suggestion: sit down before the thing to do well, I see you write homework out of 3 times is perfectly fine. The child in the mother's encouragement really less out once; a few days later, the mother again proposed to reduce once more, the child again easy to do. Parents' requirements in turn, until the child can focus on the homework to finish, not only to help children overcome bad habits, but more importantly, to protect the child's self-confidence. The good habits are not developed overnight, but in the long term.

Some parents have reported that their children do not pay attention in class, are not interested in reading, are careless in observing things, and have poor memories, all of which are factors that affect the formation of good study habits in children.

For parents to put forward the child these bad learning habits produce confusion, the following from the cultivation of interest in learning, attention training, the cultivation of the habit of reading, the cultivation of the habit of active learning and memory training in five aspects of the parents to introduce some of the methods of family education:

(a), cultivate the child's interest in learning

The child's interest is often generated in the childhood. Different age groups, due to their different qualities, children's interests often have their own uniqueness. The development and expression of a child's interest is often a precursor of his talent and quality. Parents should always ask their children what their interests are and guide them to develop them. A scholar once compared a child's interest in learning and motivation to a small spark that a parent sows in a child's heart. When parents will be this kindling in the child's heart when lit, as in the face of the need to light a pile of firewood, a small kindling fell on it, the wind will be blown out, the wind is small burn up, firewood too tight impermeable to the wind, too loose and gathered fire, firewood wet not yet, at this time, you have to be careful to take care of this small flame, to "coax" it a little bit to ignite. "with it a little bit of ignition up, strong up, and finally become a blazing fire.

So, how to cultivate children's interest in learning in home education?

1. Enhance the thrill of learning and cultivate direct interest.

Famous physicist Yang Zhenning once said: he did not agree with some people say he is "hard" learning, because he never felt "bitter" in the study, on the contrary, the experience is endless "joy". On the contrary, he experienced endless "joy". Learning if you can bring joy to the child, then the child will love to learn, the younger the child, the more interest in learning is based on direct interest. For example: some children like to draw, it may be that he is happy to use colorful crayons on the paper, looking at the colorful lines on the paper to extend, expand, his thinking, imagination, followed by arbitrary travel, rotating; may also be the teacher often praised him, although his drawings are not very good. So how can we make learning a joy?

First, more praise and less criticism. You have to be good at finding the good in every child. Some parents open and close their mouths is "so simple will not, just know to play", this is a hate iron, but do not know the good steel has been blunted in the criticism, over time the child always feel that they are very poor, there is always a mistake, there is a sense of depression in the learning, and then aversion to learning. If the child is really doing wrong, of course, we should also give criticism, so that the child to understand why the adults to criticize him, so that he understands the reason.

Secondly, it is important to make sure that the child has a successful experience right from the start. Adults should try to make the child master knowledge as much as possible, and let the child learn to understand at the beginning, which not only enhances the child's self-confidence, but also makes him experience the joy of learning.

2, clear learning purpose, cultivate indirect interest.

Experience of good parents also proved: the purpose of learning education should be linked to the child's thinking and reality, adhere to the patient and meticulous positive education, through vivid images, infectious examples, using a variety of forms, the purpose of learning and life purpose of the link, so that you can receive good results. For example, some children are learning to dance, she does not like the basic dance exercises, can not eat the pain, but she is interested in learning dance can participate in a variety of performances to perform the results of the activities, this interest can be prompted by the child to engage in the basic skills of the activities practiced. Therefore, parents should not only make full use of their children's direct interest to motivate them to study diligently, but also enhance their children's indirect interest through education on the purpose of learning. The motivating role of interest in activities has been recognized by many psychologists. Piaget, a Swiss child psychologist, described interest as "the regulator of energy". China's famous psychologist Pan Peas believes that "interest is the most realistic and active component of learning motivation". If a child is interested in learning, it can stimulate his enthusiasm for learning and push him to achieve good results in his studies.

3, use the child's curiosity, cultivate interest in learning.

The child has a curious, inquisitive, active holding point, adults should make full use of it to stimulate the child's interest in learning. Some children take the alarm clock apart, some children keep asking why, parents who do not understand the characteristics of the child to see this as naughty, mischief, the child to take criticism, cold, ignore the attitude, will damage the growth of the child's wisdom buds, thwarted their enthusiasm for knowledge. In addition to the child's question to answer positively, if not then you can tell him to understand and then tell him, but said to do not perfunctory. If the parents are lying to him, the child does not understand the question he will not ask, this will poke the child's enthusiasm and curiosity.

4, the creation of an external environment conducive to the cultivation of interest in learning.

Only fertile soil can grow good crops, and only a good family environment can produce intellectually excellent, intelligent and lively children. First of all, parents should set an example and love learning. Parents are the first teachers of children, teaching by example is more important than teaching by words. If parents urge their children to study hard, but they often play mahjong all night, then I'm afraid the child is not interested in how to study, but how to play good cards; I'm afraid that learning is not scientific knowledge but playing cards tricks, if parents hold a book after dinner, with a cup of tea, sitting at the desk, writing, children learn by example, and will often read and learn.

(2), effective attention training

Good attention is an important factor that can not be ignored with the growth of young children. Early childhood to develop a good attention, is to grow up to become an adult to achieve a career basis, but the nature of young children is active, playful, it is difficult to concentrate on doing a certain thing. Therefore, in the "concentration" of the targeted training, we must create a "layer by layer, unexpected" sense of gradient, so that the child's mind will not be scattered, here are some of the experience of cultivating young children's attention:

1, retelling exercises

Let the child read the book for 5-15 minutes (according to the age of the child to control the time), immediately close the book and ask the child to "retell" the story according to your requirements. In order to prevent the child to feel your requirements, "retell" content can be flexible: such as can ask a few main questions, books on who, what are doing. Who is in the book and what are they doing? What color clothes are the people or animals wearing? What other things are in the book. You can ask the child to draw a picture of the animal he sees. Finally, you can let him re-read the book again, after a few times, gradually the child will gradually understand the must of concentration.

2. Jigsaw and tangram exercises

This is the most effective concentration exercise in two-dimensional space, and it requires the child to maintain continuous judgment, observation, imagination, and analytical ability over a long period of time. The challenging nature of the game brings a sense of accomplishment, which is a great motivator for a child to focus to the end. In my son is still 2, 3 years old, I bought a kind of the simplest puzzles, at first I put together for him to see, and then slowly he will put it together, and then buy some pieces of more puzzles and a kind of square puzzles to let him look at the picture to put together, this time he will be very focused on looking at the picture to put together the puzzle, and sometimes in order to increase his interest, I race with him or my son to put it together fast, so he will be I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do that.

3, dominoes practice

About seventy percent of the "difficult to concentrate" children, through this game of dominoes stacking, their patience has been greatly improved. Dominoes training is actually a test of the child can, will be a single action to adhere to how long a training - in the future, we can not expect the child faced with all the learning subjects are varied, interesting, challenging habits within the encounter repetition of the training will not make the child commit the "old mistakes "The same old problems will be encountered in repeated training. Dominoes training, whether on the concentration of the mind, the duration of the concentration of the mind, is an excellent exercise, and dozens or even hundreds of dominoes instantly pushed down the thrill, but also to promote the child on the training of the "monotony" of the tolerance, only to end up with a sense of joy and achievement, the child can over the concentration of the monotony produced by the.

4, anti-interference exercises

When the child's attention has been greatly concentrated in a non-interference environment, parents can consider putting "sources of interference" in his "attention training" space, for example, when he is doing a puzzle game, parents can watch TV, for example, when he is doing a puzzle game, parents can watch TV, for example, when he is doing a puzzle game. Can watch TV on the side, for example, when he is reading a book, you can make a slight interruption, the child in this process will have the phenomenon of attention to disperse, there will be repeated, but ultimately his ability to resist interference will gradually rise. (Here we need to remind that if your child's attention is focused, not in this "attention training", you must not go to disturb him. Let him do his own thing.)

(C), develop the habit of reading books

The influence of books on children can not be underestimated, books not only teach him knowledge, take him to understand the world, but also on his language skills, thinking skills, understanding, character development have a positive impact. Good reading habits will make him lifelong, benefit. There are ways to raise a child who loves to read. Such as every night before going to bed, read a book to tell a story to the child, often take the child to the bookstore or library to read books, first of all, parents should often hold up a book to see themselves, to give the child subtle influence and inculcation. My son is very fond of reading books, as long as he gets a book he can sit for more than half an hour, such a habit is in our family environment, his father likes to read, often buy books back, but also give my son with a book, I also do not have time to prepare for the kindergarten class to write the information to bring home to write the child in such an environment also like the books. So what can be done? I have a few practices here for parents to refer to:

(1), with the reading is to accompany the child to read the picture in the book, you can see the picture with the child to make up a story to train the child's interest in the picture, the parents can read while pointing to the corresponding picture, and then slowly transitioned to read the text of the book, so that the child's interest in the text.

(2), acting is to read a story or children's song for action, such as how the rabbit did, how the elephant saved the rabbit, the big bad wolf and how to do, according to the plot of the show, the family several people played, a performance can be repeated several times after the role of the swap. Let the child realize that the children's stories in the book can do the game, so that he loves to read the book more.

(3), questions First of all, ask your child questions, parents of small nursery classes can ask some simple questions, such as who is in the story, what they are doing, who do you like and so on. The first thing you need to do is to ask more questions about why and how, so that the child can fully think about it. Secondly, let the child create a story. Parents should tell half of the story and leave the ending for the child to create, so as to cultivate the child's imaginative ability. Finally, let the child ask questions, please the child does not understand the place, do not understand the place to put forward to ask the parents. Cultivate the child's habit of learning by asking questions when they don't understand. Using the above methods to guide children to like reading and love books, the effect is still relatively good. Parents may want to try.

(D) Develop the habit of active (independent) learning

Let's listen to an example: a mother buys back a pineapple, the curious child is attracted by this never-seen-before thing, the mother may have two ways of treating the curious child.

One way is for the mother to tell the child, "This is a pineapple, and you can eat it. The outside of the pineapple has hard, sharp spines, so don't touch it! It's heavy, you can't lift it, but it's round and you can roll it. Smell it, doesn't it smell good? Now let's take it to the kitchen and cut it up, cut it up and soak it in salt water and it will taste nice and sweet."

Another way is for the mother to tell the child, "This is a pineapple," and then place the pineapple on the floor in front of the child, while she goes about the business of taking care of the rest of the purchase. The curious child will certainly "act" on the pineapple, for example, he may reach out and touch the pineapple, then quickly pull his hand back and shout to his mother: "Mom, this pineapple is very prickly, I was pricked by it."

The mom responded, "Yes, son, pineapples sting, it doesn't matter." So the child tries to grab the pineapple's leaves again and picks it up, but the pineapple is heavy and the child quickly puts it down, "Mom, this pineapple is heavy, I can't pick it up." "Yes, the pineapple is heavy."

The child may try to roll the pineapple again and ends up actually rolling it, he is so happy, "Mommy, I rolled the pineapple." Mom is happy too, "You're so good at that!" "Mom, I smell a nice aroma, is the pineapple edible?" "Yes, child, pineapple is a fruit, it is edible." "How do I eat it?" "Peel off the skin, cut it into slices, soak it in salt water, and you can eat it." "Let me try ...... really delicious!"

Which of these two ways do you advocate? Which one do you commonly use? What's the difference between them and do they produce different results?

Let's analyze: the first way, the child quickly learns that the pineapple is thorny, it is heavy, it can be rolled, it is very fragrant, it is to be soaked in salt water before eating. This was told to him directly by mom, not something the child discovered on his own. In the future, when mom brings home another novelty, the child may wait for mom to tell him about it as she did this time.

The second way, the child eventually understood that pineapple is thorny and can sting the hands, that pineapple is heavy; that pineapple can be rolled because it is round; that it smells good, that it is golden brown when cut, and that it is fragrant and sweet when dipped in brine and then eaten. All this is discovered by the child through his own attempts, the child not only understands the characteristics of the pineapple, he also learned the way to recognize the pineapple, you can touch it, you can carry it, roll it, smell it, cut it, taste it, the next time the mother may bring back some other different properties of the thing, the child may again use the methods he used to explore it, to recognize it, and in the process so that the child understands that These are all things with different properties, and you have to recognize them in different ways.

The results of the two methods are very different: in the first way, the child learns quickly, but he is passive; in the second way, the child also learns, slower, but the child learns at the same time to recognize the way things are, but also learns to choose different ways to recognize the way of thinking according to the nature of the thing, and, more importantly, he has experienced the active learning, the initiative to explore the fun and sense of success. The most important thing is that he has experienced the joy of active learning, active learning and a sense of success, and over time, the child will be able to form the habit of active learning.

Most parents may have unconsciously adopted the first way of treating their children, which actually deprives them of many opportunities to learn on their own initiative. In our daily lives, there are often opportunities for children to learn on their own initiative, and it's up to us parents to take advantage of them. There is another example. For example, a three- or four-year-old child likes to help distribute chopsticks at mealtime, and at first he may take one pair at a time, this pair for his father, another pair for his mother, and finally one pair for himself. An anxious mother may say to him, "Silly boy, you take more at a time, a **** take 3 pairs of 6, don't you need to make more trips?" In fact, waiting for him to summarize on his own gives the child a chance to learn to think with his head.

He may have to go back and forth like this for a few months before he figures out that it's okay to do the same thing every time, can't it be combined? So he tries to take more, but either more or less, and this goes on for a few more weeks before he really figures out that it's just right to take 6 at a time. In this process, the child learns to think for himself, summarize and solve problems by himself, and experiences the fun of thinking. Taking a little time to wait for your child is actually worth it, right? Therefore, I give parents the following suggestions to help your child establish the habit of active learning:

Don't schedule your child's time full according to your wishes, leave more time for your child to make his own arrangements, if he is still young and can't think of any activities that can be arranged on his own, you can give him a few more suggestions for him to choose from; more encouragement for your child to take the initiative in exploring, not too much unnecessary "Not allowed"; in the child to concentrate on doing a thing, do not interfere with him, as far as possible, do not urge him, and do not follow the child around constantly reminding him that he can not do this, can not do that; in the child problem solving encountered difficulties, do not be eager to help him, you can give him more suggestions; do not be in a hurry to tell the results to the child, to give the The child should be given enough time to find out on his own; don't do the job of checking homework and packing up the schoolbag instead of the child, and don't get into the habit of watching the child do his homework all day long, but let the child do these things on his own.

(5) Cultivate children's memory

Memory is a treasure trove of knowledge, with memory, intelligence can continue to develop and knowledge can continue to accumulate. Below are provided a few games that will help enhance your toddler's memory.

1, in order to say the name

To 6 things in order on the table, let the child look at dozens of seconds, and then cover up the requirements of the child from memory to say the name of these 6 things in turn.

2, identify the color

Let the child close his eyes and say what color clothes, hats, shoes and socks you are wearing. If you also close your eyes and say the color of the clothes, hats, shoes and socks he is wearing, it will arouse greater interest in this game.

3. Finding objects

Hide eight different small objects in front of your child, and then ask him to find them one by one.

4. Look at the pictures

Put 4--8 pictures with different contents on the table, tell the child to look at them for a while, and then cover them. Ask the child to narrate the content of the pictures he/she sees as accurately as possible.

5, airplane landing"

Put a large piece of paper on the wall as a map, and draw a large area on the paper as an "airfield". Make an "airplane" out of the paper, write your child's name on it, and press a pin on it. Let the child stand a few steps or a dozen steps away from the map, first told him to observe the terrain, and then, blindfolded, let him approach the map, and the "airplane" will be landed on the "airfield".

6, look at the window

This game is suitable for when you take your child out. When you pass by a store window, ask your child to take a closer look at what is displayed in the window. When you leave, ask your child to tell you what he or she has just seen.

The above said so much are composed of some factors of good study habits and some specific methods, parents in the training or training, pay attention to is to let the child to concentrate on learning, rather than learning to touch here, look at there or delayed into the learning state, some in the study there are always a lot of meaningless pause, drawing drawing stood up, or a few words of gossip! Some of them always have many meaningless pauses in learning, stand up after drawing, or make small talk. These children seem to learn, but in fact the learning effect is very low, not only wasted time, but also will develop a bad habit of doing things absent-minded. Over time, it will cause slow thinking, attention to reduce tension, affecting intellectual development, so that academic backwardness, to the formation of procrastination style, learning, work are not efficient. So in the requirements of the child, do not just meet the child "a sit is a few hours", but to educate them in the specified time mental focus, efficiently complete the task, even if only 5 minutes of time is good.