How to discover children's interests and hobbies How to cultivate children's interests and hobbies

When my child was young, I always wanted to cultivate some hobbies for him, but I was afraid that he would not be satisfied after signing up for a class. How should I discover my child's hobbies? How should I cultivate my child's hobbies?

1. Compare with children of the same age to find advantages

As the saying goes, "There are five fingers on one hand, each with a different length." Another saying goes, "There are a hundred people, all kinds of colors." It can be seen that people have their own personalities and differences. According to the "Multiple Intelligence Theory" proposed by Gardner, a famous professor at Harvard University in the United States, although everyone has eight intelligences, these eight intelligences are not developed in a balanced manner. Everyone has advantages in certain areas. Developing the potential in the areas of advantage will achieve twice the result with half the effort and make it easier to succeed. Therefore, parents can find out what advantages their children have by comparing them with children of the same age. Usually, advantages reflect the children's natural endowments. Children are interested, have sufficient talents, and are happy to learn.

2. Discover your child’s interests through the programs they watch

TV programs are full of sound and color, and they are visual and vivid, which makes people feel the beauty of sound and color, and the wonder of audio-visual. Children have a dominant concrete and figurative thinking, and usually like to watch TV programs. Many children are even obsessed with TV. When parents accompany their children to watch TV programs, they can observe which artistic TV programs their children are interested in, such as singing, dancing, painting, martial arts, handicrafts, etc., and compare the length of time the children pay attention to them, the degree of excitement, and the number of imitation behaviors. Generally speaking, the programs that they pay attention to for a long time, are highly excited, and have many imitation behaviors are the areas of interest to children; vice versa.

3. Select the field of art for the gifted class

When the child reaches the appropriate age, parents can take them to enrichment classes to observe various art activities, especially art activity scenes with early childhood training, to observe what art forms the children like and what art fields they are interested in. If necessary, parents can let the children try out the training activities and let the children choose the enrichment classes they are interested in independently.

As long as parents discover their children's interests from the TV programs they watch, find their advantages by comparing them with children of the same age, and send them to gifted classes to observe and choose art fields, they will be able to discover their children's interests and hobbies, and cultivate their children's artistic expertise in a targeted manner.

Understand your child’s interests:

First of all, you should communicate more with your child and ask him what he likes to do. The child will tell you directly and readily, for example, he likes singing or dancing. Cultivate his talents according to his interests.

What are the advantages of children:

In addition to communicating with your children, you should also observe them more often. Some children will dance when they hear songs, which shows that they have good musical and dancing cells. They can consider learning vocal music, singing, dancing, piano, etc.

How to cultivate in life:

If the family has better conditions, you can start training from daily life, buy a piano, and let the child start practicing slowly.

Attend training courses:

Taking a training class is the fastest way to quickly develop a hobby or interest. There are all kinds of training classes now, whether it is for musical instruments or dance forms, as long as your child has no objection, enroll him or her in the class.

Reward your child:

Some children may resist attending training classes or learning talents. We can adopt a reward system, such as giving them something to eat if they go to class, giving them a toy if they are praised by the teacher, and so on.

Participate in the competition:

If the child has outstanding talents, he or she can also participate in the competition. First, it can help the child gain honors, second, it can make the child more active and interested in learning this thing, and third, it can also get very good rewards (competition prizes)

How to cultivate children's interests and hobbies

Let your child choose:

If the child is interested in everything, parents can pick out a few hobbies that they want their children to learn and let the children make their own choices. Interest is the best teacher, and I believe that children will definitely learn well from what they choose.

Choose hobbies that your children are good at and let them learn:

Finally, you can cultivate your children according to the interests and hobbies you are good at, so that you can supervise and guide your children's learning of their interests and hobbies. Otherwise, if you know nothing about it, you won't know how your children are learning.

Don’t take up all your time:

Don’t do anything for your children so that they will have enough abilities in the future. If they don’t have even one day of free time, whether it is weekends or winter or summer vacations, their emotions will be very negative, which is actually not good for their studies. It is best to have a half and half split.

Cultivating and paying attention to children's learning interests from an early age can play a vital role in their future learning and life. Learning interest helps children grow up healthier and happier. Interest plays a driving role in learning. Only when they are interested can they be willing to do things that they are interested in, work hard, and think, thereby cultivating children's ability to think independently. Learning interest can stimulate children's potential. If a child is interested in a certain aspect or a certain thing, he will take the initiative to study and study, thereby cultivating children's thinking habits. Children's potential is infinite. Only with interest can children's inner potential be continuously discovered. Learning interest can cultivate children's ability to deal with problems independently. As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher for children. When children's learning interest is strong, they will have the motivation and passion to think about and solve problems. They are full of curiosity about things and have a strong desire to solve problems, thereby motivating children to solve problems. Learning interest can help children develop good learning habits. When children's interest is strong, they will take the initiative to learn. Over time, they will develop good habits. Good habits are an important foundation for learning. When good habits are formed, children's learning initiative will naturally improve. In short, learning interest plays a very critical role in the growth of children, indirectly affecting the development of children's character and other aspects, and helping children to continuously improve and perfect themselves.

I suggest you sign up for two at most. Nowadays, the investment in children's education is constantly increasing, and many parents will sign up their children for some interest classes to help them develop other abilities! However, in reality, we will find that some children lose more than they gain because they sign up for too many interest classes.

Too many interest classes can easily make parents tired of picking up and dropping off their children, and the children will also be tired. Generally speaking, children's interest classes are mostly concentrated on weekends, and some children also go to learn their interests after school from Monday to Friday. If you enroll your children in too many interest classes, parents will be exhausted from running around like they are rushing around.

Just imagine, after a hard-earned weekend, neither adults nor children can relax and rest. What is the point of such interest-based learning? It is particularly important to point out that some children take too many interest classes on weekends and do not get to rest. On Monday, the consequences of fatigue are exposed in the classroom, such as lack of concentration, too many small movements, distraction during lectures, and low mood.

If you want to learn hobbies well, you need to persist for a long time, and you can only achieve it by doing less but better. For children, there are two stages in hobbies that parents need to pay attention to.

One is the false interest stage, that is, when children see their classmates or friends learning, they also want to participate, just out of curiosity and because it is fun. After participating in learning, they become familiar with and understand what interest is, and their interest will gradually decrease. In addition, they are prone to give up if they cannot endure the hardship.

The other is the true interest stage, that is, the child truly gains physical and mental pleasure or a sense of accomplishment from learning a certain interest or hobby, and has developed a good habit of conscious learning.

Generally speaking, at the true interest stage, children have already started and have a certain foundation. As long as parents continue to affirm and encourage their children's performance, it will stimulate their enthusiasm for continued learning. Therefore, only by learning a few but not too few can we persist in learning one or two interests for a long time.

Interest learning is only a beneficial supplement to children's extracurricular life. Parents should not be greedy when enrolling their children in interest classes. Therefore, we should maintain a rational attitude towards the choice of interests and never follow the trend. If you see other children enrolling in many interest classes, you will also enroll in more.