2. Sensory sensitive period-how do children know the world?

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Senses are an important channel for children to know and understand the world around them and construct their own world. Sensory sensitive period determines how children know the world. Many studies have shown that children have been familiar with and adapted to the environment with the help of hearing, vision, touch, taste, movement and other senses since the fetal period.

after birth, perception is an early development field in children's psychology. On the basis of the development of sensory perception, advanced psychological functions such as memory, representation and thinking can be developed. Therefore, the development of sensory perception is of great significance to the individual development of children, and it is the foundation of children's physical and mental development.

visual sensitive period: the same eyes but different worlds

"The light coming from the high window on the dark wall brings the baby the first surprise and joy."

? -Roman Rolland's John Christopher

What Roman Rolland described was the first sensitive period-the visual sensitive period after the baby was born. The sensitive period of vision is the sensitive period that our children have when they come to the earth. This is the first way for them to perceive this new world. At that time, he had a strong sensitive period of visual perception.

What is the world like in the eyes of a newborn baby? It is not the color world we see, but a black and white world. Newborn children like black and white bright and dark colors. Children like to look at silhouette, shadows and adult expressions. They are all learning. Experienced parents will find that after the baby is born, if you hold a black and white geometric card and move slowly in the baby's line of sight, the baby's eyes will move with the movement of the picture. This is a simple visual tracking, which is helpful to the baby's visual development. Therefore, it is recommended to prospective parents that the first toy to buy for their children is a black-and-white card. Black-and-white cards just meet the visual needs of newborn babies through different types of black-and-white contrast with clear boundaries.

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How old can the child see colors? After about 3 or 4 months, the baby will enter the color world and begin to be interested in bright colors. At this time, you will find that many babies like red very much, and people wearing red clothes will be excited and happy. Of course, some babies will like orange, not necessarily. At this time, parents need to add color stimulation to meet their children's visual sensitivity. From this stage on, we can use colorful pictures to attract the baby's attention. At this time, the baby's visual tracking ability is stronger.

In addition, we can also use balloons, bed bells and other movable toys to interact with the baby, which is a very good way to meet the baby's visual needs and exploration needs, because dynamic things can attract the baby's interest far more than static things. However, we'd better not present a static thing for the baby in one direction for a long time. It's easy for the baby to get tired of staring at a thing that won't move for a long time.

A better way is to put the baby on a slightly inclined plane and take him outdoors, so that he can see the world of flowers, birds, fish and insects and the colorful world.

If you see this, please try your best to satisfy your child's visual sensitivity period. Even if your child is old, please read this book carefully, try your best to make up for the unsatisfied sensitivity period in the past and satisfy the sensitive period that your child is in now. Because if the child's sensitive period is not met, what will be the result?

Missed the period of visual sensitivity-the tragedy of little Totti

Let's talk about a case of missing the period of visual sensitivity. There was an Italian baby named Totti. The baby was just born, and his eyes were slightly red. His mother was worried that the child's eyes would be infected, so she covered the child's eyes with a bandage for two weeks. Two weeks later, the child's eyes were not red at all, but when the child was full moon, the mother found that the child's eyes could not be followed, just holding a small red ball and moving slowly, and the child's eyes did not feel, so the mother took the child to see an ophthalmologist. Ophthalmologists have come to the same conclusion after many consultations: physiologically, this is a completely normal eye, but it is blind. Why is a completely normal eye blind? Because little Totti missed the sensitive period of vision. Later, the researchers did many similar experiments on animals, sewing the eyelids of newborn kittens together for two weeks. After two weeks, the results were the same, and they became blind. But a normal big cat, she recovered her sight in 4-6 weeks. Therefore, this is the tragedy of missing the sensitive period. If we miss a sensitive period, we will not reach the level that belongs to human beings in any case, because the organs of life strictly implement the principle of "putting into use and discarding".

Let's talk about another case. In some underdeveloped areas, in order to protect children, caregivers close the curtains, or put a small towel on the bag for fear that children will be stimulated by light, which leads to amblyopia of many children. The effective treatment stage of amblyopia is within 12 years old, but amblyopia is difficult to reach the most basic level of human beings through treatment. Therefore, many small patients can be seen in the eye clinics of major hospitals. Because of different degrees of amblyopia, parents take them to see their eyes. If we trace back to the source, 1% is related to the visual sensitivity period. So, if you have a newborn baby around you, please open the curtains during the day and close the nightlight at night, so that the children can feel the alternation of light and shade during the day and night to satisfy the sensitive period of their vision.

So just through the case of visual sensitivity, let's see if we should satisfy the sensitive period of children. Only by knowing children can we love children. If we don't know children's love, we may hurt them, and this kind of injury will be hard to find once we miss it. What are we waiting for? Let's follow the footsteps and learn together.

the next chapter is:

taste: the world is taste

hearing: hearing warmth and safety

touch: you can't know until you touch life

smell: smelling smells adds motivation.