Continuation: If children want to be smarter and smarter, they must improve their thinking ability from an early age.

I have several students. They were in the same class in kindergarten and primary school, and they were in the same school in junior high school. When they were young, they all looked smart and cute. However, their academic achievements are far from each other now. In the junior high school graduation classes, some are in the top ten, and some are in the bottom dozens. What a surprise!

From the family point of view, their parents can't give them direct help in their studies. At most, they just ask a tutor when their grades are very backward. As far as I know, the students with good grades have never had a tutor or attended a cram school; Students with poor grades have been attending cram schools since primary school.

It can be seen that their external conditions are basically the same, such as the same educational environment and roughly the same family environment. Then the main reason that can open their academic distance is personal.

some people will say: some children are smart and some children are not! Some children have good memories, and some children have poor memories!

According to my understanding of these students, those children with good grades are really smart, as shown in the following aspects:

2. They have rich imaginations. For example, they will give their teachers nicknames behind their backs and tell their grandma or mom that Mr. Wang is the "King Tiger", and while talking, they do Tiger Claw with their hands and dance in the air, because the tiger has the word "king" on its head. Teacher Liu is a "snot". As he talks, he wipes his nose with the back of his hand, because his nose always stays. Tian teacher is a "candy bar". He licks his lips with his tongue, because sugar is sweet. These children are really irritating and ridiculous!

They like to make up stories for children, and they are very happy and dancing when they tell them. They also compete with each other to see who can make children laugh much more, which is very similar to the current talk show.

Therefore, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion that these students with good grades are outstanding and so smart because they have strong thinking ability since childhood.

From now on, we can also draw the conclusion that parents should start from cultivating and improving children's thinking ability for those children whose academic achievements are not very good! This is fundamental!

Let's explain it from the fifth thinking level mentioned in the last article:

1. The fifth thinking level: using meaningful ideas

Parents can use some opportunities around them to communicate with their children, such as after school, after dinner, during floor time, etc. Guide children to say what they think about what is happening around them. For example, when parents see that their children don't eat much of a dish in dinner and seem to dislike it, they can ask him: Why don't they like this dish? If you were asked to do it, what would you do? At this time, no matter what the child says, he should be greatly praised for his creativity.

When a child reacts to a situation, parents ask him how he feels and what he thinks. Are you happy? Sad? Still angry? In short, parents let their children express their feelings at this moment by asking questions.

When children play a role game with friends, parents encourage them to see if they can make up a story with the same motivation and emotion.

2, the sixth level of thinking ability: logical thinking

In fact, children have basic logical thinking ability at the age of 3 or 4. Sometimes, when children start a new level of thinking, they need support to make a leap.

Then, in the dialogue with their children, parents should listen to whether their children can logically link their ideas with yours, which can let parents know whether they need to give their children some extra help.

Mom and Xuan Xuan are talking about school. Xuan Xuan said, "I don't want to talk about school any more. I want to tell you about my favorite computer game." Xuan Xuan wants to change the topic, but also creates an appropriate logical transition for the topic to be changed. Explain that Xuan Xuan's logical thinking ability is good.

If, while he was talking with his mother about school, the topic suddenly changed and he talked about a cartoon character. At this time, the mother will help the child to logically connect various viewpoints by further asking the child's thoughts.

Parents should encourage their children to express their feelings with logical thinking. Ask the child, "Why do you look so sad today?" | "What happened at school today that made you happy?" "Who angered you and made you furious?" Upon hearing these questions, children will say, "Because". Children will naturally follow the questions and express the reasons for this emotion one by one. The child replied, "I am sad today because the teacher yelled at me!" " At this time, the child has logically linked the two viewpoints of "I am sad" and "yelling at me".

Therefore, expressing emotions logically is the entrance for children to improve their logical thinking ability.

3, the seventh level of thinking: multi-factor thinking

At the age of 4 or 5, children are ready to give multiple explanations for a behavior or emotional reason. In spontaneous daily conversations, children sometimes naturally practice multi-factor thinking, most of which do not need parents to supervise them. If a child is stuck with a question, parents can provide him with possible answers and let him make a choice.

For example, Mom: "Who do you want to bring home to play today?" Hao Hao: "Just call it Fan Fan." Mother asked, "Why is it called Fanfan?"

Hao Hao: "Fan Fan is very funny. We like to play the same game." Mom: "Oh, that's good. What games do you play?"

Hao Hao: "We both like to play the same computer games." Haohao's answer is very casual. Mom can keep asking and let him come up with more reasons. Mom: "Oh, what else do you like about Fanfan?" Hao Hao: "He is very good. We like to talk together. He will also give me some game cards to play with." With the mother's inquiry and support, Haohao's reasons have expanded from one to two or three.

This practice of parents is to encourage their children to use their brains to think and develop their multi-factor thinking ability by constantly asking in-depth questions.

4. The eighth thinking level: comparative thinking and grey zone thinking

Comparative thinking is closely related to grey zone thinking. Comparative thinking requires the use of "Geng" or "Bi", for example, Haohao is better, smarter, more handsome, taller than Xuanxuan, and so on. Comparative thinking includes comparing all different things. Grey zone thinking means that children can understand different emotions, different events, different phenomena or their relative influence to different degrees. For example, Hao Hao is almost as smart as Xuan Xuan, but he is the cleverest of all.

Comparative thinking and grey zone thinking are developed in the age group of 6-1 years. Parents should consciously help their children improve their thinking ability in the gray zone. Otherwise, they will think in an all-or-nothing way and live in an all-or-nothing world.

Sometimes, we will find that children aged 4-5 will use comparative thinking. No matter what age, as long as your child can compare, he is ready to understand the thinking in the gray area.

Parents can still use emotional expression to urge their children to think in a gray area. For example, ask, "How angry are you today compared with the other day?" Child: "Oh, a little." Q: "Baby, how happy are you to go out to play today?" Child: "I am so happy today!" "

In short, the development of gray areas is very important for children's emotional development and intellectual development, because it can help him to transition from single-level thinking, that is, seeing the world as black and white to fine thinking. Only people with fine thinking can understand the differences and complexity of things and better understand the increasingly complex academic content.

Therefore, parents consciously help their children to improve their thinking ability at all levels before school age, so children have a super-developed brain, and it is difficult to learn well.