What are the sensitive periods of babies?

Babies have a lot to learn since they are born, and these learning stages belong to the baby's sensitive period. Children learn different things at different ages. If they want to learn better and faster, parents must grasp the items that need to be learned at each stage. Things like talking, eating, and walking must be completed during the sensitive period. So what else does this include besides these sensitive periods?

Language sensitive period

Range: 0 to 6 years. When a baby begins to look at the shape of an adult's mouth when speaking and makes babbling sounds, his language sensitivity period begins. Learning a language is a difficult task for adults, but young children can easily learn their mother tongue because they have a natural sensitivity to language. Therefore, if a child is still slow to speak at around two years old, the child should be taken to the hospital for examination to see if there is any congenital disorder.

Language ability affects children's ability to express themselves. Therefore, parents should talk to their children frequently, tell them stories, or use "rhetorical questions" more often to strengthen their children's ability to express themselves and lay a good foundation for their future interpersonal relationships.

Sensitive period of order

Range: 2 to 4 years. Children need an orderly environment to help them understand things and become familiar with the environment. Once the familiar environment disappears, he will be at a loss. During her observations, Montessori found that children would become afraid, cry, or even lose their temper when they were unable to adapt to the environment. Therefore, determining the "demand for order" is a very obvious sensitivity of young children.

Young children's sensitivity to order is often manifested in their requirements for sequence, living habits, and possessions. Montessori believes that if adults fail to provide an orderly environment, children will "lack a foundation for establishing a perception of various relationships." When children gradually establish an inner order from the environment, intelligence is also gradually constructed.

Sensory sensitivity period

Range: 0 to 6 years. From birth, children use their senses such as hearing, vision, taste, and touch to become familiar with the environment and understand things. Before the age of three, children absorb things around them through their subconscious "absorbent mind". Children aged 3 to 6 are more able to analyze and judge things in the environment through their senses. Therefore, Montessori designed many sensory teaching aids, such as. Hearing tubes, tactile boards, etc. are used to sharpen children's senses and guide them to generate their own wisdom.

Parents can also prepare a variety of sensory teaching materials at home, or randomly guide their children to use their five senses to feel the things around them in life. Especially when children are full of desire to explore, their needs should be met as much as possible as long as they are not dangerous or do not infringe on others' property.

Parents can use their children's sensitive period to cultivate their interests and hobbies

Sensitive period of interest in subtle things

Range: 1.5 to 4 years. Busy adults often ignore the small things in their surroundings, but children can often capture the mysteries. So if your child becomes interested in tiny insects in the dirt or the tiny patterns on your clothes, it's a good time to cultivate your child's habit of being interested in small things.

Action sensitive period

Range: 0 to 6 years. A two-year-old child can already walk, and is at his most active and lively stage. Parents should allow their children to exercise sufficiently so that their body movements become correct and skillful, and help the left and right brain develop in a balanced manner. In addition to large muscle training, Montessori places more emphasis on small muscle training, that is, the education of subtle movements of hand-eye coordination, which can not only cultivate good motor habits, but also help the development of intelligence.