How to develop children's intelligence

How to develop children's intelligence well is a question that many parents are concerned about. They want their children to lay a good foundation at the starting line and hope that their babies will become smarter and cuter. In fact, there are many ways to develop children's intelligence, and many small things can help children develop their intelligence. As long as parents are careful, they can help children learn and develop their intelligence better.

Toddlers are relatively young children, and they know nothing when they first come into the world, so they need to learn everything from scratch. If they are well trained from the basics and have good methods to learn everything from the beginning, their intelligence will naturally improve. The following will introduce relevant content and methods on how to develop children's intelligence, I hope it will be helpful to you.

Good habits, living skills and social interaction skills are also established in infancy. Babies are born with an innate reflex activity called an unconditioned reflex. Under the care of adults, he relies on these reflexes to sustain his own survival. For example, he can suck, swallow, and breathe, and can squint his eyes in strong light. He can respond to various inappropriate stimuli by crying, such as painful stimulation, inappropriate temperature stimulation, and inappropriate body position. Based on these innate, unconditional reflexes, they begin to receive "education" from adults and form a variety of acquired reflexes. If the mother always holds the baby in a familiar position when feeding him, then starting from the 9th to 14th day, whenever the mother holds him in this position, he will have sucking movements even if he has not started feeding yet. This is due to the complex stimulation of skin touch, joint sensation and semicircular canal balance produced every time the mother holds him, combined with the subsequent food (breast milk) reinforcement. Some parents pick up their children as soon as they cry. Over time, the children will develop the habit of being picked up whenever they cry. Conditioned reflexes such as sucking on a pacifier when crying and not being able to fall asleep without patting and rocking are all bad habits that children develop through "education" from adults after they are born. Therefore, the education of infants and young children should begin from the day they are born.

In order to better carry out early education and early intervention and promote the intellectual development of infants and young children, we have designed an early education and early intervention program for infants aged 4 to 5 months based on the general laws of perception, movement, language and social behavior development of infants and young children, so as to guide parents in clinical work to carry out early education and early intervention for their children.

Cognitive skills development

1. Visual training

(1) Train children to pursue objects. Use the sound of toys to attract children to turn their heads and look for the sound-making toys. Train 2 to 3 times a day, each time for 3 to 5 minutes, to broaden the child's visual breadth.

(2) Color perception exercises. Let your child look at pictures, toys and objects of various colors, and tell him or her the names and colors of the objects, which can greatly advance the baby's color cognition development process.

(3) The period of rapid development of infant vision is mainly before the age of six months. You can choose some toys or objects of different sizes, from large to small, let the children grasp them and look at them, and then put them on the table to attract the children's attention. Children can also be trained to look at objects at different distances to promote vision development.

2. Auditory training

(1) Directional hearing exercises: Encourage children to look for sound sources in different directions and distances in front, behind, left, and right to stimulate the development of children's direction sense ability.

(2) Intonation training: Use different intonations and facial expressions according to different situations, so that children can gradually feel the different emotional components in the language and gradually improve their ability to distinguish language.

(3) Allowing children to be directly exposed to various sounds from the surrounding environment can improve their ability to recognize sounds of different frequencies, intensities, and timbres.

Development of motor skills

1. Prone support exercise: Let the child lie prone with his arms bent at the elbows in front of his chest. Encourage and guide the child to raise his head and chest until he can support his body with one hand and lift his head and chest. Alternate between left and right hands to support the body, several times a day, for a few minutes each time.

2. Turning over exercise: train children to turn over from supine position to prone position. The baby lies on his back, and the adult gently straightens the baby's right hand toward the head with his left hand, and gently holds the inner side of the baby's right knee with his right hand. Let him bend his left leg, and use the back of his right wrist to make his right leg stick to the mattress or floor. Then gently lift his left leg and let him roll right into a prone position. Use the same steps to help the child roll from the left side to the prone position. Train 2 to 3 times a day, turning over to the left and right 1 to 2 times each. Gradually train your child to roll over successfully without help.

3. Practice sitting

(1) Pull-to-sit exercise: Children can be trained to pull-to-sit at 4 months old. The baby lies in a supine position, and the adult inserts the thumbs of both hands into the baby's hands for him to hold, while the other fingers gently grasp the baby's wrists, so that the child stretches both hands out in front of him, with the palms facing inward and the hands shoulder-width apart. Then gently pull the baby's hands forward to lift the child's head and shoulders off the bed. At this time, the baby will try to bend his elbows and sit up, maintain this position for 5 to 6 seconds, then gently let the child lie down, and repeat 2 to 3 times. It should be noted that the pull-to-sitting exercise is to allow the child to sit up by himself with the help of the parents. If the child is unable to bend his elbows and his head hangs down when an adult pulls him up to sit up, it means that he is not yet suitable for this movement. He must first do prone exercises to strengthen the muscles of the neck, back and upper limbs, and then practice again after some time.

(2) Sitting practice: Train your child to sit up at around 5 months old. Place the child on a sofa with armrests or a small chair with a backrest, or put some pillows and quilts behind the child to let him practice sitting up. Gradually reduce the things the child leans on. Do this 1 to 2 times a day for 2 to 3 minutes each time.

4. Hand movement training

(1) Reaching: By reaching out, children’s visual range can be extended, allowing them to sense and understand distance and develop hand-eye coordination.

(2) Training grasping: Choose toys of different sizes to train children’s grasping and promote hand flexibility and coordination.

(3) Developing playing methods: Through games, teach children to play with toys in different ways, such as shaking, pinching, touching, knocking, lifting, pushing, throwing, and taking, so that they can learn various hand skills from the games.

5. Leg kicking exercise: When the child is 4 months old, you can purposefully train the child's leg support. The adult takes a sitting position and holds the child under the armpits with both hands, so that the child's legs support the body to keep it upright. The adult holds the child and does the leg kicking movement. At the beginning, the adult can pick up the child, then put the child down and let the child's feet step on the adult's legs, then pick the child up again and put him down again to train the child to kick and jump. Leg kicking exercises can promote the full development of bones and muscles in both lower limbs. It should be noted that the lifting and lowering movements should be gentle and slow, the force should not be too great, and the time should not be too long. Generally, it should be done twice a day, each time for about 1 to 3 minutes.

Cultivation of habits and life skills

1. Sleep: Children should be taught to have a regular schedule from an early age. After 4 months, the child's daytime sleep time can be gradually reduced by 1, that is, sleeping 3 to 4 times during the day, each time for 1.5 to 2 hours. If your child does not wake up at night, try not to disturb him. If the child wakes up and his diaper is wet, you can change his diaper or hold him to pee. If the child needs milk or water, you can feed him, but try not to talk to him or tease him, and let him fall asleep as soon as possible. Pay attention to your child's sleeping posture and change the position of his head frequently to prevent him from sleeping with his head tilted.

2. Diet: Eating regularly can coordinate the nervous system, endocrine system, digestive system, etc., and establish a conditioned reflex to eating time. For example, when it is close to feeding time, the gastrointestinal tract begins to secrete digestive juice in advance and produce a feeling of hunger, which helps to increase appetite and promote digestion and absorption of food. After 4 months, the number of feedings per day can be reduced to 6 times, with 4 to 5 feedings during the day, with an interval of 3 to 4 hours. At night, feed the child according to his needs. Generally, one feeding is enough. If the child does not wake up at night or is unwilling to eat, he does not need to be fed. You can start to gradually train your child to learn to swallow food with a spoon, in preparation for weaning and eating with a spoon. You can start by feeding the baby boiled water with a spoon. If the baby does not choke, you can gradually start feeding the baby fruit juice, vegetable juice, thin paste, egg yolk paste, fruit puree, etc. with a spoon. Method: Hold the child in a reclining position against your chest, use a small spoon to gently put food into the child's mouth, and feed the second mouthful after the child swallows. You don't need to use too much at the beginning, 1 to 2 spoons is enough, and then gradually increase the amount. You can train your baby before feeding to prevent spitting up. Every time you feed your child, tell him or her the name and taste of the complementary food he or she is eating.

3. Cultivate hygienic habits: When children put dangerous or unclean things in their mouths, adults should stop them immediately and say to the children in a serious tone: "No." And remove the items put into the mouth. Children will gradually understand what they can eat and what they cannot put in their mouths from adults' behavior, expressions and tone of voice.

4. Cultivation of independent ability: You can put some toys next to the child and let him play alone for a while. When the child has difficulties, adults can give appropriate help and guidance, support and encourage the child to display his or her abilities.

Cultivation of social skills

1. Know yourself: Hold the child in front of a mirror, talk to the child in the mirror, and guide the child to look at himself and his parents in the mirror and the corresponding actions, which can promote the formation of the child's self-awareness.

2. Children should be taught the names of things around them anytime and anywhere. With more listening and more practice, your child's speech ability will soon undergo amazing changes. When talking to children, we should not only consciously use different tones of voice, but also combine them with different facial expressions, such as smile, anger, indifference, etc., to train children to distinguish facial expressions, so that they can have different reactions to different tones and expressions of adults, and gradually learn to express their feelings correctly.

3. Pronunciation training. When talking to a child, you should sit directly opposite the child so that the child can clearly see your mouth shape and expression. Speak slowly and clearly.

4. Hide and Seek game: It not only exercises children's perceptual ability and cultivates their attention and reaction flexibility, but also promotes the interaction between children and adults and stimulates children's happy emotions.

Have parents learned how to develop children's intelligence? You may as well give it a try. In fact, every child is very smart. As long as parents give a little guidance, the child's intelligence will be greatly improved. I hope the above methods can help your children become smarter and cuter.