Concentration is the key to success in learning and doing things, and it is crucial to a person’s life. As the saying goes, “those who are book-obsessed will be skilled in literature, and those who are skill-obsessed will be good in art. The cultivation of children’s concentration should start at an early age, preferably from infants and toddlers, according to the characteristics of different age groups of children, the use of different methods, training throughout the game and life, concentration will become stronger and stronger. First, the characteristics of the child’s concentration at different times Generally speaking, in a good educational environment, 3-year-olds can concentrate for 3 to 5 minutes; 4-year-olds can concentrate for 10 minutes; 5 to 6-year-olds can concentrate for about 15 minutes. This time refers to the amount of time a child has to spend on something “taxing and demanding” such as studying or writing. Even adults can only last up to 25 minutes. So when we adults do things, the best strategy is to do 25 minutes and take a 5 minute break. This way the mental concentration is more efficient. However, under play conditions, the attention span of 2 to 3 year olds can last up to 20 minutes, and 5 to 6 year olds up to 96 minutes. This is roughly the case for kindergarten activities. Second, the child’s concentration is not strong causes of children’s concentration may be caused by the following reasons: 1, the child does not sleep enough or feel fatigue, the heat, thirst, illness or some cause of emotional distress, etc. will affect the concentration. 2, the child is not good at shifting attention. For example, after listening to an interesting story, the child may be affected by some of the episodes and ignore the mother’s questions, appearing distracted phenomenon. 3, caused by external interference. Such as: the environment is busy, noisy, etc. so that the child’s attention is not easy to focus. 4, education content, method does not meet the child’s age characteristics. The educational content is too deep for children to understand, or too shallow for the lack of freshness, which cannot attract children’s attention. In addition, the teaching method is not flexible enough, do not pay attention to the motion with the static, or the activity requirements are not clear enough, etc. will affect the child’s attention. In addition to the above causes of inattention, children who are physically unwell, have poor vigilance or perceptual development, are naturally active, or have problems with the nervous system or brain microfunctions may have poor attention spans. Most of these conditions are the result of the way they are taught and the environment in which they grow up. In addition to addressing physical problems, parents should recognize that concentration is a behavioral habit that can be trained, learned and developed. Therefore, while complaining about their children’s inattentiveness, they should also reflect on what they are doing wrong. The behavior that destroys the child’s concentration 1, regardless of the timing of concern, interference, urging The baby came back from kindergarten soon on the ground happily building blocks, a face as focused as if in a big project. When the baby is playing happily, the mother took a glass of water over and asked the baby to drink water. A short while later, she asked her baby if she was tired and if she wanted to take a break; after a while, she shouted at her baby to start packing up her toys and prepare for dinner …… The baby’s “big project” plan was thus interrupted by her mother’s “concern and greeting “interrupted many times. Parents believe that children can not sit still, a moment to play this, a moment to run and jump, do things are often difficult to stick to the end. But perhaps it is the parents who let the baby develop such a bad habit! Parents reflect on whether they are often in the child’s whole body into the play or do things when they will be untimely interruptions, interference? To be able to concentrate on the baby, parents should protect the baby to do things “coherent”, so that the baby can enjoy the “from start to finish” sense of continuity and success. 2, provide too many toys to the baby Parents want their babies to have fun and enjoy themselves, they will give their children a lot of toys at once, so that he can play with what they want to “hand to hand”. But in fact, too many toys for the child at once, the child faced with these choices, the natural “greed” to play a little here and there. So many toys actually more distracting to children, inattention is in many of these behaviors gradually formed Oh! 3, lack of patience Many times, the reason why children are difficult to focus on one thing, it is likely because parents originally lacked patience, too much urging next to the child. The child will be more interested in things to observe, parents should let go of the child to have more time and space, let him enjoy the fun of discovery and focus on the joy, do not rush him to hurry up Oh! 4, when playing the game too much interference, forcing The baby is happy to build blocks to play on their own, the father had to participate, but also to the baby built cars to give some “guiding advice”, the baby game of fun is thus by the father’s fingertips to put off. Originally parents want to participate in it is a good thing, but self-righteous behavior interference often only deprives the child’s freedom to play. 5, do not give the baby alone or quiet space The baby is difficult to quiet many times because of the influence of the surrounding environment, if parents are always in the baby reading books, playing with toys, around, or talking loudly, or playing television programs, how can the baby quietly? Therefore, it is appropriate to give the baby some alone time and space, mom and dad can pay attention to the child from afar to avoid danger, parents’ activities try not to affect the baby. If the baby is willing, then the parents can also stay quietly by the baby’s side, the baby is playing on the floor, the mother can sit next to the sofa to read a book, and spend a good afternoon together. Babies are generally more focused in the company of adults. Giving positive encouragement and affirmation to babies in this process helps them to establish good concentration and ensures that they are interested in participating in such activities. 6, impatient with the baby’s repetition Sometimes mothers find that their babies often repeat the same thing, for example, he wants to draw a kitten, but mothers find that he always seems to be dissatisfied with the kitten, painted and thrown away to redraw it again. It was hard for mom to understand her baby’s obsession. After seeing him repeatedly, she suggested that he could stop drawing and go watch cartoons or sing songs to soothe himself. This child may be a bit of a perfectionist, but if your baby shows special attention and interest in something, then parents should try not to interfere to give advice and let the baby “do it himself”. The baby is so focused on doing one thing over and over again, completely ignoring external objects, a situation experts call “repetitive practice”. Children are young and usually have trouble concentrating for long periods of time, so they usually keep moving from one thing to another. But once he encounters something that attracts him, the baby will forget to devote himself to it, showing a high degree of concentration. At this time, parents do not just go to interfere with him, so that he has been in a situation of forgetfulness, to develop a habit, then the baby will do things in the future will be very focused. Fourth, how to train children to focus 1, visual attention training Let the child look at some photos or animal pictures, and ask some questions. For example, show your child a photo and ask him to say what people are in the photo, how many men, how many women, how many adults, how many children, what each of them is doing, what they are holding and so on. For example, let your child observe the fruits on the table, and then let him say their names, colors, etc., but let your child observe things constantly change, otherwise your child will feel disinterested. 2, auditory attention training to tell the child a story, agreed in advance, after the story to ask questions for him to answer, if you can tell him the questions to be asked in advance before the story (if these questions can arouse his interest), I believe the effect will be better. This is like listening to a teacher, if you have done a good job in advance, to find out what you have questions, when listening to the lecture will be particularly attentive, because it is with the desire to find the answers to listen to. Of course, doing this, at first the child may only focus on finding the answer and ignore the rest of the content, but the number of training, the number of questions raised, so that the child will focus on the whole story. 3, action attention training is by allowing the child to complete a specific action to achieve the purpose of training attention. For example, teach him to do some gymnastic movements, dance movements or some game movements, can achieve this effect. You can do the game “please do this with me”, everyone around a circle, the previous person to do what action, the person next to him to learn to do this action, the third person and learn the action of the second person, and so on, who can not keep up with the penalty of singing, you can let the children together to do this game, but also the whole family to come together. Do. 4, mixed attention training In fact, the eyes to see, ears to hear and do actions combined, both visual and auditory training, but also training the action, this mixed attention training is difficult, a little inattention may be chaos, so do this type of training to start with the simplest actions, can not be too hasty, you can say while demonstrating to the child, let the child follow, such as saying a The name of the object, let the child point it out, etc. 5, the right medicine In addition to the child’s attention training, there is a point that can not be ignored, that is, to find out why the child’s attention can not focus, so you can prescribe the right medicine, according to the child’s weaknesses, on the one hand, to help him exclude and solve some of the factors that prevent him from concentrating, on the other hand, with the attention training to improve the child’s self-control. In fact, sometimes children are not able to control their own actions and behaviors that are not related to learning, which means that they are not able to distinguish what they should not do in class, so it is necessary to help them establish this concept of discipline, and then with some training. At home, you can set a good place and time for learning, and ask him to focus on learning, not to do other things, and not to talk casually, and every time you do it to praise and encourage, I believe that over time will certainly receive results.