Is it necessary to take early childhood education? Is it necessary for babies to take early childhood education classes?

What is early childhood education?

First of all, early education is not early education

Early childhood education is becoming more and more well-known, but it is always used in a narrow sense. It is obviously inappropriate to equate early childhood education with learning the content of exam-oriented education. To be more precise, early childhood education refers to the early education that each child needs when he or she is developing individually: family education during the period of 0 to 6 years old, not early education. The growth cycle of a child has its own rules. As the saying goes, childhood only comes once and is precious.

Second, the foundation of early education is the family

When talking about early childhood education and good early childhood education, its foundation must be based on the family. In other words, if parents have requirements for their children, then first of all, they must also "teach by example". If parents cannot even do these basic things in their daily lives, but instead hope to do it through educational institutions, it is tantamount to looking for fish in a tree. Each of our personality or behavioral traits is influenced by one or both parents, which is precisely derived from their daily words and deeds, which will also affect the children's formation of their own thinking patterns and values.

Again, early childhood education is personalized education

Most parents only act according to their own ideas and wishes, so they educate their children by "copying the same pattern". But this does not mean that the children are receiving effective education. Every child is unique and not all the same. On the basis of respecting the growth of children, creating an environment with their own growth rules and a good family education atmosphere can lay a solid foundation for the future growth of children.

It is actually biased to understand early childhood education narrowly as "classes in an early childhood education center" or "playing with children at home."

So, what does early childhood education teach? I will now popularize it for you:

Early childhood education begins with educating parents

Early childhood education first educates not children, but parents themselves. The growth of children is based on the self-growth of parents, because all educational choices are the embodiment of parents' thoughts. If you cannot mature from a couple in a world of two to a parent in a world of three, then you are likely to make a wrong judgment on early childhood education: one is that early childhood education is equivalent to exam-oriented learning; the other is that early childhood education is not necessary. Only when parents can correctly understand early childhood education, will they realize that accompanying their children to grow up is the core value of early childhood education, and the role of parents cannot be replaced by anyone, which is also part of early education. Only when parents learn how to get along with their children and understand their children's behavior in the process of getting along, and constantly improve themselves and the family's upbringing atmosphere, can they give their children the growth elements they need to grow in the family environment. This is the first step in early childhood education.

Gaining growth opportunities through external

As the implementers of early education, parents cannot take care of all family education. Because, after objectively analyzing themselves, parents will realize that their abilities are not enough to complete the early education of their children in some aspects, and they can use external resources to complete the early education of their children, such as early education institutions. However, this supplement must be combined with the characteristics of the child and the ability of the parents to form a benign complement. For example, a parent who does not know how to play with his child may need to use a parent-child class to expand his thinking and learn how to play with his baby. This is a process of completion.

Early childhood education is not about attending an early childhood education institution

Early childhood education means "early education", not "attending an early childhood education institution". In order to pass through the narrow birth canal of the mother, the fetus is born before the brain is fully developed. All human behaviors and thinking activities in the future are controlled by the brain. After the baby is born, the brain nerves continue to develop, and the neural network grows, breaks, and reorganizes all the time, leaving useful neural pathways and removing useless ones. There is an easy-to-understand word to describe this process, which is "use it or lose it". The significance of early education, in the final analysis, is actually to provide children with an environment and methods that can promote the development of brain nerves as early as possible, that is, to provide children with a rich environment needed for growth. Before the age of one, the main focus is to stimulate the development of children's various senses and physical abilities (the development of human early sensory and motor functions determines the development of other development areas and advanced behaviors in the future. To give a few simple examples, vision is related to people's reading ability; hearing enables people to receive language signals; touch allows humans to understand things through touch; speaking, holding a pen and writing also rely on motor functions, etc.). At the age of one, give children more opportunities for interaction and socializing to promote thinking processes, language training, emotional understanding, etc. The poster's child is one and a half years old. Children of this age need more social opportunities because at home, the people who interact with children are often only family members. Children need to understand some social situations and social rules outside the family through interactions with other people (including peers and adults), learn to understand other people's emotions and feelings, and learn to solve problems by themselves. In this process, because of the expansion of vision and the increase of interaction, children's knowledge input and language learning will also be enriched. Therefore, if parents can provide their children with a rich environment for early growth at home, then there is no need to go to early childhood education classes. However, if parents have no idea how to provide early education for their children and hope to get professional advice, then they should seek help. Mothers can seek information through expert lectures, mother forums, the Internet, books and other channels, and early childhood education classes are a more specific channel for obtaining professional help. The premise is to choose a professional early childhood education institution. The services provided by professional early childhood education institutions should not only be a 45-minute course, but also professional guidance on how parents can create an early education environment and how to conduct parent-child activities. Of course, the early childhood education industry is booming, and there are many early childhood education brands on the market. The measurement of their professionalism is a bigger topic, and we can only discuss it separately. In summary, a person's knowledge accumulation becomes richer and richer with age. But the ability to learn is strongest at birth, and gradually decreases with age. Therefore, the education of children should start from the age of zero. Of course, we can also not use such a heavy word as "education" - to put it simply, from birth, parents should try their best to provide children with rich visual, auditory, tactile, movement, spatial changes, language input and other aspects of stimulation, so that children can feel loved, valued, understood, safe, confident, and happy. This is the meaning of early childhood education. If you can achieve the above, you don't need to go to any early childhood education class.