I. Analysis of the five functions of the right brain
1.Imagination function
This ability means that things that have been seen once or heard once can be visualized in the mind.
2.Large amount of memory function
This is mainly reflected in the language aspect, and children with strong ability often speak 4 or 5 languages.
3.ESP ability
This ability is beyond the basic senses, and can also be said to be the sixth sense, young children sense other messages in the world around them.
4.Super speed automatic calculation function
The reason why some children are able to calculate the superior ability and right brain training has a lot to do with it, he is like a computer general existence.
Second, the baby’s right brain development methods
0-2 years old: focus on sensory training
Hearing
The right brain will make the toddler extremely sensitive to music, the sound of birds, rain, dishes, these will make the baby become excited. Parents can seize this point and play world famous songs to their babies in their normal life. You can also do some musical games, grab a handful of red beans in a plastic bottle and gently tap it to let your baby feel the sense of rhythm.
proprioception
You can train coordination and attention by changing your baby’s sense of space, motor posture, and body position. The easiest way is to take your child to play with the slide. Try to let him slide without holding or let him slide on his back, do not worry too much, as long as there is an adult to supervise, this will make the child feel a strong sense of proprioception.
Tactile sensation
Toddlers are very new to the outside world, and they explore by touching with their hands and depositing all the information they gather into their little heads. Don’t forbid your baby to touch because it’s too hot or too cold. This will hinder his tactile training, and only let him know what is hot, what is cold, and what is painful so he can remember it in his brain, which is very beneficial for information storage and extraction in the right brain.
Visualization
The main visual training for young children is to distinguish between objects. Doing some simple games, such as asking your child to pick out two of the colorful cards with the same pattern, or asking your baby to find the mother for different small animals, will not only help your child’s vision a lot, but also improve his cognitive power.
Sense of smell and taste
This training is relatively simple, let your baby enjoy smelling the food before eating, so that he can feel the pleasant atmosphere of eating.
After 2 years old: focus on image thinking training
1. Memory
Both the right and left brain have memory, but the right brain is more focused on the recognition of the image of objects. For children who have already started to recognize objects, you can use the comparison method, such as the game “Let’s find the fault”, first take the child familiar with the items in the original picture, and then let the child look at another similar picture, and let him say what has changed.
2. Language
For 2-3 years old children, the ability to express is still very weak, parents must strengthen the training, such as when reading picture books, let the child describe the content of the picture, perhaps the child will be relatively simple, but parents can do again interesting and vivid description, and guide him to imitate.
3. Picture Thinking
The right brain thinks as a whole and then individually, so when developing training, we should also focus on this point, such as finding a diversified picture with people, houses and animals, and let the child observe the whole first, and then ask him to explain what is in each corner.
4. Drawing
This is an excellent way to train the right brain, which can enhance the overall ability of young children, including vision, hearing, observation, language expression, etc. It can effectively stimulate the right brain cells and improve creativity. When training, you can guide your child to draw curves to stimulate the right brain development.
5. Cell activation
This is a way to continuously stimulate the right brain cells, when training, you can constantly send messages to the baby’s little brain, such as exercise imagination, you can take him to observe the white clouds, small stars, mountains, and ask him “what do you think this looks like?” Let your baby fully imagine.
Third, different stages of right brain development family games
1.0-1 years old
Do exercise
Listen to the soothing classical music and let your baby move his whole body with the help of parents: head (back and forth), arms (stretching and circling), legs (sitting, stretching and circling).
Note: Regular movement of these parts helps to make the body more flexible and coordinated, and can also develop the baby’s sense of space.
Dance to music
Accompanied by classical music, parents do not walk to hold the action, activities, hands and feet; can walk with the rhythm of random dance; more than 2 years old can learn to imitate the action of playing musical instruments, such as playing the piano and playing the piano.
Note: Classical music can develop the right side of the brain very well, the action accompanied by music, can develop the right brain thinking, active right brain function.
2.1.5-2.5 years old
Find the same
Initially, let your baby find out the cards with the same pattern or color; after that, you can let your baby find out the cards with the same pattern and different colors. If the baby finds the wrong one, parents tell him what the difference is when correcting the mistake, and describe it as vividly as possible, for example, the red circle is like an apple.
Note: As the age grows, you can keep increasing the difficulty.
4.Above 2 years old
Throwing paper balls for basketball
Crumple waste paper or newspaper into balls and throw them into boxes and baskets.
Note: Accurate shooting requires babies to learn how to control their hands, while making judgments about the distance.
Prize Draw
Put some toys, fruits, bottles, etc. in the box and let the baby touch one and say its name. To make it more difficult, parents can ask for “edible things”. To keep the baby interested, you can reward him for the food he gets.
Note: Train your baby’s sensory system by judging through touch and sight.
Ask him “What does it look like?”
Show your baby a cloud in the sky, or a picture or a block and ask him “what does it look like” to stimulate his imagination and creativity and encourage him to come up with a variety of answers.
Note: Do not ask “what is this”, it is easy to trap the child’s thinking to come up with the only answer. When doing this game, in order to let your baby give full play to his imagination, there should be no other visual stimuli next to the pictures or blocks.
Use your left hand more often
Play “rock-paper-scissors”, whoever wins the toy or food will belong to whoever; use your left hand to draw, grab things, play with toys and so on. All these games can make babies use their left brain more.
5.2 years old – 3 years old
Listen to sounds and guess animals
Parents can play some music, or their own imitation, let the baby to guess what small animals. You can also teach your baby to imitate. For example, “woof woof woof”, is the dog.
Note: Train your baby’s ability to hear and imitate.
Note: Before the age of 3 is very important to develop the right side of the child’s brain, is the initiation stage, because in general, the right side of the brain develops earlier than the left side of the brain, probably before the age of 3 began to develop. Therefore, parents can develop their children’s right brain through various games.
6.Above 3 years old
Different ways to play with a leather ball
1. Shoot the ball to see who is accurate;
2. Shoot the ball with left and right hands, either high or low;
3. Place the ball 10-20cm above the child’s head, let the child top the ball, top a certain number of rewards;
4. Place several toys or bottles on the floor as targets, and roll the ball with the left hand aiming to knock down the most to win;
5. Let the baby use the feet to carry the ball from one place to another.
Note: The process of moving the limbs stimulates the brain nerves, and the interaction between the two can promote the development of the cerebral cortex as well as nerve cells.
Adaptation of songs
Parents can adapt a common phrase in life into a familiar song. For example, use the rhythm of “Happy Birthday Song” to sing “Baby eat well”.
Note: You can develop creativity by adapting your own material; you can develop a sense of rhythm by singing and listening more often.
More of this and less of that
Show your baby 2 or more pictures, then add (subtract) one picture and ask your baby to say what is more (less). Start from easy to difficult and progress step by step.
Note: This game exercises young children’s memory, and it is image memory, not abstract memory. The right brain is in control of image memory and can identify different images. babies over 3 years old already have the foundation to identify and remember concrete images.
7.4 years old and above
Guess the figure in a row
Show your child a more complex diagram with many things hidden inside, such as birds hidden in the canopy of a tree, and ask him how many birds there are. You can also show him the complete picture first, then a part of it, and then ask him to say where that part is the whole.
Note: The left brain controls the part first and then the whole, while the right brain controls the whole and then the part. This game changes back and forth between the whole and the parts, which can train the coordination function of the left and right brain.
Paper cutting
Put a piece of paper on a card with simple shapes and let your baby cut it out by himself. It doesn’t matter if it looks good or not, but it is important to exercise the coordination of the left and right hands and the ability to work with them.
Note: Pay attention to the safety of using scissors.
Making bracelets
Cut the envelope horizontally to create a circle. Encourage your baby to use different colors to draw various shapes on it, and then put it on your hand as a bracelet.
Note: The emphasis is on hands-on, parents should help encourage. This game not only requires tactile and visual together, but also exercises the child’s design of colors and graphics.
8.5 years old and above
Left and right hand game
The left and right hands flex different fingers at the same time, such as the left index finger and the right middle finger, gradually increasing the speed.
Note: The game of left-right asymmetry can constantly stimulate the baby’s left and right brain, which helps development.
Note: 3-7 years old is the golden period of right brain development for children, because around 6 years old, the child’s brain development is basically completed. When this stage is over, it will be more difficult to develop the right brain.