How to cultivate and promote baby's understanding and memory

Watching the baby grow up every day, the mother is very happy. Mothers all know that education should start from childhood. Cultivating the baby's memory is conducive to intellectual growth. So what are the methods to cultivate the baby's memory? How to promote the baby's memory? The following editor will introduce you in detail.

How to cultivate your baby's memory

Classification Memory Method

For example, watermelons, apples, bananas, etc. are classified as fruits; puppies, kittens, birds, etc. are classified as animals; flowers, grass, trees, etc. are classified as plants. Children can recognize the characteristics and internal connections of things by classifying, comparing, and summarizing them, which not only cultivates children's observation and thinking abilities, but also improves their memory. Cultivating children's memory by using the method of classification memory is actually cultivating children's logical memory ability. When children analyze, compare, summarize, and classify, these thinking operations are also logical memory methods under certain conditions. Giving the simplest organization to the materials to be memorized can better improve children's memory level.

Segmental Memory

That is to divide the whole thing into several small sections according to the internal connection for memorization. For example, when training children to retell stories, you can adopt the method of segmented memory, dividing the story into sections according to the development of the plot, and taking one plot as a small section, so that children can remember and retell it more easily. The same principle applies to reciting, dividing the article into several central points, so that children can easily memorize it.

Use your senses to engage in memory activities

For example, when teaching children to identify and memorize various objects, you can let them look, touch, smell, and taste them carefully, so that they can gain a variety of perceptual knowledge through their senses, deepen their impression of the objects, and naturally remember them quickly and firmly. It is best to let children participate in learning activities through games, let them analyze things through multiple senses, let them better understand things, and thus deepen their memory.

Emphasis on the cultivation of oral memory

There is still a big difference between the memory of language and physical objects and pictures for 3-4 year old children. But when they are 5-6 years old, their verbal memory is almost as good as their memory of visual materials. This is the period when they develop their verbal memory ability rapidly. You should know that after children enter school, they are mainly taught by oral and written methods, so it is important to pay attention to the cultivation of children's verbal memory ability. You can improve children's verbal memory ability through various methods such as training children to tell stories and sing nursery rhymes.

Ways to improve your baby's memory

Eye contact: When you talk to your baby or give him/her an instruction, make sure you look him/her in the eye if you want him/her to remember what you said.

Game entertainment: Babies are happy to play memory games with mom and dad. During the game, everyone is relaxed and in good spirits, which can improve memory. The game content should be adjusted and updated according to the baby's age.

Rich senses: When an activity uses multiple senses, the memory effect will be better. For example, when taking your baby out to play, encourage your baby to use vision, hearing, touch or smell to fully experience the entire process of the play. After returning home, recall with your baby what he saw, heard, touched and smelled, so that your baby will be more likely to remember what happened and experienced.

Calling the name: When talking to your baby, it will be easier to attract the baby's attention if you say the baby's name first. When the baby's attention is focused, the baby's memory ability will also be significantly enhanced.

At what age does a baby develop memory?

Most parents believe that children start to have memory after the age of 3, but the memory we usually refer to is the child’s ability to remember things, that is, the memories of their childhood that children can recall when they grow up. This should not be confused with the child’s memory.

In fact, a child has different memories at each stage of growth, which means that a child may have memory in the womb. For example, when a child is in the womb, he will remember his mother's food preferences and use them as his own food preferences after birth; after birth, the child will remember the taste of his mother and use this as the standard for "recognizing his mother".

Why is it difficult for children to remember things before the age of 3?

Because the memory mechanism of children under the age of 3 is not yet mature, their memory capacity is limited, and they can only selectively remember the most important things for themselves. In addition, the memory neurons in their brains are updated quickly, and some memory "cells" will be lost in the process of nerve replacement. In addition, children have limited understanding ability and cannot fully understand the whole story. The storage time of memory is relatively short, and the memory can be retained but not for long.

What is certain is that a child's memory will gradually get on track and begin to develop rapidly after the age of 3. After this stage, children will have long-term memories of things that are more stimulating to them or of great significance, and will keep the memories for a long time after adulthood. In other words, after a child is over 3 years old, he may remember most of the things that happened around him.

Tip: Parents should not beat or scold their children after they reach the age of 3, and should not do shameful things in front of their children. If the children find out, it is likely that their brains will be "stimulated", and they will never forget these unbearable scenes, and it may also leave psychological trauma.