Learning is never too late and never too early; all parents should remember this. In this article we will talk about how you can begin to develop a baby from the earliest years and even months of his life. It will be about what it is and why there are cards for the development of the child.
When to start?
So, first you need to decide on the timing, when can you begin to develop your baby. Some mothers will be surprised, but this can be done already from the first months of the child’s life, when the baby’s vision more or less comes back to normal and the child can already concentrate attention and hold his gaze on one subject. The baby can start learning with the help of cards from the age of four months, but it is best to do this from six months, when the baby can already sit and with great pleasure perceives communication with the outside world.
First cards
What should be the first cards for the development of the child? There are a few simple rules. First, all drawings for the smallest children should be monochrome, as simple as possible. For example, it will be just a red tomato or a green leaf. You should not buy a crumb drawings, for example, with professions or other complex pictures, anyway, the baby can not yet recognize them. It is also important that the background is simply white, the child will better perceive the drawn. No need to expect from the crumbs that after a couple of dozen classes he will already independently show where the green cube lies, and where the yellow ball is. This will happen after about a year, or even a year and a half. However, leaving classes or leaving them “for later” is not worth it; he remembers everything that he sees and hears small. The sense of such exercises will definitely be.
We study further
When the baby is already a little older, you can begin to complicate their activities. Now cards for the development of the child can be more complex. Drawings may consist of several colors; a colored background may appear. You can also enter into the training several blocks of cards with different orientations. So, today we repeat the cards “Household items”, and tomorrow - “Fruits and vegetables”. Mixing themes is not recommended for easier perception and mood of the baby in the right way.
Letters and numbers
After the baby turns one and a half years old, you can begin to study letters and numbers with it. For this, cards for the development of the child with the necessary symbols written on them are suitable. However, it should be said that contrary to previously relevant methods, today scientists say that letters are crumbly easier to learn not only by themselves, but in words. For example, today we are studying the word “mother”, where there are two letters - “a” and “m”. When the letters are repeated in the words, they must, again, be spoken again in order to better learn. Such cards can also be purchased at the store, but you can also do it yourself. So, for example, starting to learn a word, you can draw it or write it on a piece of paper with your child, thus making your own cards for further training.
Doman Cards
Today, Doman's educational cards, which can be purchased at any children's store, are very popular. The American neurophysiologist in the first half of the last century made a discovery that was surprising at that time, informing the public that a baby can learn various knowledge from completely different areas even at a very young age. It is never too early to do this, because the brain of the child is still, as they say, “tabula rasa” - completely clean and ready to absorb everything that is provided to it. Glen Doman has developed a technique that affects immediately the hearing and vision of the crumbs. He recommends educating kids with the help of various thematic cards, with the help of which you can get knowledge from various fields of science. They can teach to read, count, understand the world and its objects.
Rules for Doman cards
However, Doman put forward strict rules for his teaching material. His educational cards for children had to be printed on thick cardboard, their ideal size should be A4 (however, today this rule is not the main thing, there are much smaller cards). The text on the cards should be printed clearly, in large letters, necessarily using red ink (this is necessary so that the color attracts the baby, helping him to remember what he saw and written). If on the card one thing is depicted, but not a composition or a bulky drawing, the background must be white so that it is easier for the baby to concentrate on the main thing. Doman also has rules for images. These can only be realistic drawings. Various cartoon options are not suitable. It looks more like a photograph than a drawing. This is necessary so that the baby does not get confused in what he sees, realizing that the figure contains what he sees without problems in real life.
The essence of the lesson
However, parents should know that it is necessary to correctly use cards for educational activities. Here it must be remembered that the main purpose of the lesson is the examination of pictures. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about if the baby wants to take the card and consider it better, it is not worth forbidding to do so. However, the lesson itself should be held in accordance with several rules. So, first, about 10 seconds are given for each card, this is enough for the baby. Next, one card is placed and the second is shown. The parent can simply read what is written there, that is, give an explanation for the drawing, or it can complicate the task somewhat. For example, to give more accurate information about what is painted there: where the given subject is used, why it is needed, etc. However, it should be remembered that all knowledge should be as encyclopedic as possible, you do not need to voice your own speculations or fantasies, he all this will be remembered and once reproduced. You can also learn foreign languages with the help of these cards, simply indicating the drawing, for example, in English. It must be said that it is better not to mix developing cards, but to leave them in their thematic categories. For one lesson you need to show no more than one block of cards, or even less. For a day, you can conduct two or three small classes, however, again, from one thematic category.
General rules
It must be said that children's educational cards can be used not only at home. You can teach children in this training manual in various developmental classes, in kindergartens, etc. However, it is important to remember that the enemies of any training are boredom, tiredness and lack of interest. If a teacher (will it be a mother or a teacher) sees that the kid is not interested, it is better to postpone the lesson until a better time. It is also necessary to pay attention to the wishes of the baby: if he wants to work out longer, do not blame him for this, let it be so, do not be afraid to break the rules. However, it is also necessary to have a sense of proportion, do not force the crumb to do what he does not want now, anyway, there will be disastrously little benefit from such an activity.
About the pros
Although today most parents are still rather skeptical of this teaching methodology, it has already gained popularity not only in European countries, but also in the vastness of our homeland. With the help of cards, the kid remembers everything he saw and said - he trains his memory, learns abstract thinking and the ratio of objects, trains his eyesight and hearing. Such an early education will definitely make the baby talk much earlier than this can happen. Well, of course, this is another way to spend time together with the baby and communicate more closely with him.