What are some ways to improve children's memory?

It is very important for parents to understand how to improve children's memory, because it is directly related to how fast children learn knowledge and affects their academic performance. In fact, there are 6 ways to improve children's memory. First of all, parents must understand their children's memory characteristics.

Method 1: Understand the child’s memory characteristics

Parents should understand their children's memory characteristics and know the factors that affect their children's memory, so that they can find more effective ways to help their children improve their memory. Do not make too high demands on your children, and do not force them to remember. Instead, develop their memory step by step within their abilities.

Before children are 3 years old, they can easily remember things that interest them and that have distinct characteristics, but this kind of memory often lacks purpose, so the memory is retained for a short time. After the age of 3, children's unconscious memory gradually develops. They can clearly remember the names of objects, the names of their friends, the locations where they put their objects, and simple ancient poems and nursery rhymes. The memory retention time is significantly prolonged and can be maintained for several months.

In addition, parents should also understand the factors that affect children's memory, such as the child's emotional state, the child's perception of the things to be remembered, the child's knowledge and experience, the characteristics of the objects of memory, the number of objects to be remembered, etc. On this basis, parents should encourage their children to observe more things and enhance their intentional memory.

Method 2: Provide adequate nutrition for your child’s brain

Nutrition is also a factor in children's poor memory, because strong memory requires a sound brain and a good brain environment. Therefore, parents should arrange their children's diet reasonably and adjust their dietary structure.

1) Reasonable diet: In terms of diet, parents should ensure that their children consume enough protein, which is beneficial for enhancing their children's memory. Protein is mainly found in lean meat, egg yolks, seafood, soybeans, etc. Parents should also let their children eat more carrots, which will help ensure their children's brain metabolism. In addition, it is necessary to rationally match vegetables and fruits and take in enough vitamin C and trace elements to help improve children's memory.

2) Drink enough water: Studies have shown that when children drink a lot of water, the water content in their blood will increase, the osmotic pressure will decrease, the blood volume will increase, and the synthesis of antidiuretic hormone in the hypothalamus and the release of antidiuretic hormone in the neurohypophysis will be reduced, which is not good for children's memory.

3) Quiet external environment: While ensuring the nutritional supply of the child's brain, parents should also provide a good external environment for the child, because the environment in which the child is in also has an impact on memory. Parents should prepare a quiet environment for their children so that their emotions can be relatively stable so that they can concentrate on memorizing.

Method 3: Stimulate children’s interest in memory

"Where there is no interest, there is no memory." Goethe's words hit the nail on the head about the baby's memory characteristics. Wise parents should never force their babies to remember this or that.

Interest is the best teacher. Guided by their interests, children will gradually increase their enthusiasm for memory and often show strong memory for things they are interested in. Therefore, parents should consciously stimulate their children's interest in memory. Starting from the child’s interests, the memory effect will be more ideal. Parents should learn to respect their children, get along with them on an equal footing, and guide them to remember. In this way, children will live in a relaxed and harmonious environment and feel comfortable. Their interest in memory will become stronger, and the effect of memory will be more ideal. They will not only remember quickly, but also remember firmly.

Therefore, parents should encourage their children to memorize things easily and happily under the guidance of their interests, rather than forcing them to study and memorize. If the child has a poor memory and the parents force the child to memorize, it will only get half the result with half the effort.

Method 4: Help children master the law of forgetting

The laws of memory are also the laws of forgetting. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered through experiments that forgetting is inevitable in the learning process, but there are scientific laws to follow. Forgetting always occurs quickly at first and then slowly. As time goes by, the speed of forgetting gradually slows down and the amount of forgetting will also decrease.

Parents should teach their children to grasp the best time to memorize based on this law of forgetting. After children have learned knowledge, they should be guided to review in a timely manner. As time goes by, the number of reviews can be gradually reduced, and the intervals can also be gradually extended.

In addition, parents should guide their children to choose different memory methods according to their age. For younger children, it is best to let them review every day; for older children, the interval can be longer.

Before children take an exam, parents should help them strengthen their review, familiarize themselves with textbook knowledge, and engage in conscious memorization to increase the effectiveness of memorization, while also improving their confidence in memory.

Method 5: Help children find the best memory time

There are four peak times for human memory: after waking up in the morning, 8 to 10 am, 18 to 20 pm, and before going to bed at night. During these four time periods, the brain nerves are in a highly excited state, the thinking is sharp, and the memory efficiency is high. Parents are the people who are closest to their children and understand them best. They should observe their children carefully, find out the best time for their children to memorize, and let their children memorize knowledge in the best state to achieve ideal memory effects.

Parents can divide their children's study time into several different stages, and then analyze which stage the child's condition is best and which time period is most suitable for memory, so as to find the best time for memory and let the children memorize, recite and understand the knowledge points during this time, repeating them until they remember them firmly.

Method 6: Let children master the correct memory method

Parents should consciously teach their children some scientific memory methods, which will help their children achieve twice the result with half the effort. The following methods can be used to effectively cultivate and develop children's memory: intuitive image method, game memory method, classification memory method, understanding memory method, associative memory method, organ participation method, etc.

Children’s poor memory is usually only temporary. I hope parents will have enough patience to help their children improve their poor memory. Parenting experts remind us not to force children to memorize things.