Attention is an important element of infant mental development and is the “window” through which infants explore the world. Attention is divided into intentional and unintentional attention. An infant who hears a knock at the door while looking at a person and immediately looks for the source of the sound is unintentional attention, while focusing on something new is intentional attention. Attention is closely related to infants’ perception and memory, and is a precondition for learning. Second, the developmental pattern 1, 1 to 3 months old infants, the earliest manifestation of the occurrence of infant attention is the unconditioned orienting reflex, which may appear after birth. After 2 months of age, if something shiny or colorful appears in the field of view, the infant will make a joyful sound or open his eyes to gaze. 2. From 3 to 6 months of age, infants scan their environment more easily as their head motor skills strengthen. The infant’s visual attention develops further, with a greater preference for meaningful objects, such as a preference to gaze at the mother and favorite foods or toys, a greater number of small objects, and a longer attention span for more complex and detailed objects. The ability to discriminate differences and the ability to switch attention after gaze is enhanced. 3. 6-12 month-old infants, 6-12 month-old infants with increased activity, attention is no longer as before only in the visual aspect, but in a more extensive and complex form, and governed by knowledge and experience, their attention has a certain selectivity, these are the budding of intentional attention. For example, attention is more often expressed in grasping, sucking, listening, manipulation, and motor selection. As infants grow, their interest in new and different things increases. Interest in new and different things increases, resulting in exploratory behavior and attention. 4. After 1 to 3 years of age, with the development of language skills, they can understand many words. Verbal activities dominate infants’ attention to choice, and young children can focus their attention on objects expressed in words by adults, such as concentrating on activities such as listening to stories, reading books and watching television. Moreover, as they grow older, infants’ attention can be progressively clearer and longer. Generally speaking, infants of 1.5 years old can only pay attention to things of interest for 5 to 8 minutes, 2 years old can pay attention for 10 to 12 minutes, and 2.5 years old infants can pay attention for 10 to 20 minutes. Note 1: To evaluate whether the child’s attention is focused at this stage, you can no longer use his eyes as the only criterion – this is also a misconception of many parents. The child grasps with his hands, bites with his mouth, kicks with his feet, and so on, indicating that he is “concentrating on research”. 2, this stage of the child’s attention to choose the scope of greatly expanded, he has his own choice, no longer just follow your orders, so it is no longer “where you point him to look”, so many parents identify the child as “inattentive”, which is actually This is in fact a great injustice. 3, parents of children at this stage need to learn to take advantage of the child’s gradually rich attention selectivity, throwing their children, training and education, where he points you “hit”, rather than the other way around, have to make him listen to your command. Otherwise, it is to help the seedlings to grow. 4, to understand the law of infant and toddler attention development, is the basis for some of the methods and time we take in early education, so as to be more conducive to the growth of infants and toddlers.