6-year-old Dongdong is smart, but he is always “distracted” in class and has a lot of small movements; he doesn’t do his homework until he is watched, and starts to write only when he can’t delay any more, and he also writes and plays and needs his mother to watch him. He often sees “6” as “9” and “d” as “b”, and does not do well in school, and is the “smart and stupid kid” in the eyes of his teachers. Obviously, Dongdong is an inattentive child, so how to develop children’s attention early? “Attention” is a familiar mental phenomenon, usually called “concentration”. When children listen to the radio or watch TV cartoons, they will concentrate on them, while listening to or ignoring the people and things around them, which is attention. Attention is divided into active attention and passive attention. Developing children’s attention should begin in preschool. This is because the main task of preschool lies in preparing the child for formal learning through a number of learning activities. A good attention span is one of the necessary conditions that will enable the child to concentrate on learning after school. How to develop your child’s attention? Initially, the child’s good behavior should be developed in terms of habits of life. The requirements should be specific and the purpose should be clear. The approach should not be a stormy one, but a small one. For example, ask your child to go to bed and get up on time; eat on time, do not leave rice in the eating bowl; restore toys once used; do things carefully and well, or start over …… leave the details without education. But not all the small things to manage, but choose those “small things” that have essential significance to the growth of children and the formation of quality. Interest is the motivation for observation and concentration. Things that the child has never seen or heard of before can attract the child’s attention with a unique charm. Therefore, you should take your child into nature to see exotic flowers and curiously shaped buildings to develop his or her interest. It is important to help children determine the purpose and task of observation, because children like to look around, do not have a strong sense of purpose, can not grasp the main points, and therefore do not gain. Therefore, parents should intend to put forward some requirements and purposes to their children, inform them of the methods, guide them to grasp the essence, from the shallow to the deep, and concentrate on it. The more interested a child is in something, the easier it is to develop a stable and focused attention. Parents should not keep their children in their rooms all day to study, but encourage them to engage in various activities in which they can discover and develop their abilities and interests, and use them to develop their attention span. When children encounter difficulties and interruptions in learning, or encounter content that does not interest them, attention alone is not enough; they must consciously develop self-control and subordinate their attention to the purpose and task of the activity. Parents can develop their children’s self-control by having them concentrate on one thing for a period of time, such as painting, practicing the piano, practicing calligraphy, etc. Don’t call it this thing one minute and that thing the next. It is better to have a fixed time and a fixed place for training in order to form a kind of orientation of mental activities. Irregularity in work and rest, irregularity in life is the main reason for children’s distraction. Learning is mental work, to consume a lot of oxygen in the brain, if the child is eager to become a dragon, all day long forced children engaged in monotonous learning activities, will certainly cause the child’s brain fatigue and mental distraction. Psychological experiments have shown that: 3-year-old children’s attention span can be maintained for 3 to 5 minutes, 4-year-old children 10 minutes, 5 to 6-year-old children only 15 minutes. Therefore, it is very important to reasonably set your child’s work and rest time, so that your child can clearly define when you can play to your heart’s content and when you must focus on completing your study tasks, and develop a good habit of combining work and rest.