Every child has infinite imagination, but the imagination of children needs the care and cultivation of parents. What should we do as parents? Now I'm going to take care of your baby and cultivate your child's imagination, hoping to help you.

Ways to protect and cultivate children's imagination

1. Increase children's basic cognition

Imagination belongs to children's cognitive ability, and the cognition we are talking about here is certainly not about children's cognitive ability. What we are talking about is the basic cognition of the characteristics of concepts and things, which is a necessary condition for children's imagination. For example, if children don't know anything and don't have any knowledge reserves, what can they use to form their imagination? Of course, the knowledge referred to here is not the cultural knowledge learned in books, but the knowledge (physical cognition) accumulated in family daily life or outside activities, which is the basic cognition.

When children are young, their cognition of things can only stay on the surface or local external features, without any sense of classification. Therefore, children's imagination seems unreasonable in the eyes of adults. For example, when they see a ship swimming in the water, they also imagine that bicycles can swim in the water, and their imagination becomes strange. When you accompany your child in daily life, you can increase your child's basic cognition through what you see and hear in kind or through some pictures, which will enrich and expand your child's imagination.

I need to explain to parents here that many parents often use cartoon pictures when they give their one-or two-year-old children a basic knowledge. These pictures are rich in fruits and animals, which are common or rare? Wait, but some pictures are too cartoon. Sometimes we have to think about some animals when we see them, so that we can see what they are. When children are too young, they have never seen and known these objects, and they don't have much cognitive foundation. Let children see such cartoon pictures, which will confuse their children's cognition. Therefore, many children regard birds as butterflies and penguins as other animals, which is very unfavorable for their basic cognitive accumulation. I hope parents can pay more attention to this point, and it is best to start with real pictures. When children are older and have a certain amount of cognitive foundation, they can look at these somewhat abstract cartoon pictures, which is not only conducive to cognitive accumulation, but also beneficial to imagination, because it can let children know that animals can be beautified like cartoon pictures, so beautiful.

2. Protect curiosity

Some people say that curiosity is the greatest thrust of human development, and curiosity is the originator of innovation. If people have no curiosity about anything, there will be no motivation for development. Curiosity can be the best thrust for children to acquire curiosity, and it will also bring many security risks to children. Therefore, parents need to reasonably prohibit some dangerous things, but also protect their curiosity and fully satisfy their curiosity. The more curious children are about things, the more they will stimulate their imagination and innovation. Not long ago, I just wrote an article about children's curiosity, "Your actions are killing children's curiosity". Interested parents can find this article in the past sharing or viewing historical news under the column of Xiaomeizi's sister WeChat official account Zhiboshu.

3. Let children imagine boldly

Children often have many strange and unrealistic ideas in their daily lives, and children will take imaginary things or things as real and desire things or things as what they already have or have experienced. At this time, parents often limit or correct their children's thoughts according to their own thoughts. They always think that children's thoughts are unrealistic, that children's fantasies are unreasonable, and even that children are lying. In fact, this is a manifestation of parents' ignorance of children's psychology. We should never blame and limit children's thoughts. We should correctly guide children's imagination and eliminate unfavorable psychological factors in the process of imagination. No matter what children imagine, give them more encouragement and recognition, give them more room to freely develop their imagination, and let them imagine freely.

4. Give children more stimulation

Let children know, know and touch things, and increase children's stimulation of things, which is the basis of imagination and an important step to enrich imagination. By stimulation, we mean not only physical objects, but also language stimulation. For example, when you see ice cream for the first time, you just have a basic understanding of its appearance. If you take an ice cream in your hand and eat it, you will. This kind of stimulation will enrich children's imagination, make children's imagination more realistic, and be more conducive to forming concrete images and feelings about things in the brain.

5. Leave the right for children to question

Many of our parents always stay in the exam-oriented education in the past, and their learning and training for children are always too rigid. One is 1, and 2 is 2, so they don't have any doubts about their knowledge. When you teach children that 1 is 1, children will never imagine 1 as chopsticks and other things, which will imprison their imagination.

In fact, our children in China are still very solid in learning cultural knowledge, but we always lack imagination. We always attribute these faults to learning knowledge or school education. Actually, this is not the case. We will find that the great men and wizards in the world are knowledgeable, but they still have good imagination, and the knowledge they have learned has not imprisoned their imagination. When you understand the educational background of these great men and wizards, you will also find that their knowledge and imagination are not only completed at school, but also under the guidance, cultivation and influence of their families. Therefore, you can't get rid of the responsibility of parents' education anyway!

We should know that knowledge and age are not the reasons that imprison imagination, because these great men have retained their doubts about knowledge while learning knowledge, and believe that there must be more room to surpass existing knowledge, which makes imagination more powerful and directional because of knowledge. Our problem is not that children learn too much knowledge, but that they are always too rigid and crammed. For example, I remember that when I was a child, I wrote an article silently, even if I missed an irrelevant word, I had to deduct points. It was always what the teacher said and what the parents said. The child had no chance to refute and question. This is the culprit that imprisoned the child's imagination. Please leave room for questioning and refuting. Only in this way can the child dare to have more ideas and try more things. It is because of questioning that great people in the world have overthrown those wrong theories. !

8 ways to cultivate children's imagination

1. Reading stimulates inspiration

Reading is the key to intellectual development and also helps to stimulate children's imagination. Choose books with a lot of colorful pictures. The text content is not important to children. Try to let children make up their own stories according to the pictures. Parents can also help children create plots together, and they can also play roles to increase interest and participation.

2. Create your own story

Sometimes, a short story about yourself can be very attractive. You can create a short story from the surrounding environment, give full play to your imagination, and even make your child a superhero in the story. In the end, he will also tell you his story, in which he himself is the protagonist.

3. Singing, beating and whistling

Structured music types are really good, but the process of preparing toy musical instruments for children, making them dance with music, singing with him and even encouraging him to improvise is a very creative process, which can stimulate children's imagination infinitely.

4. Limit screen time

With the popularity of electronic products, many parents like to play mobile phones or IPAD for their children. Playing games or watching videos can attract their children's attention and reduce the pressure on parents to take care of their children. However, experts suggest that parents should minimize the time their children spend in front of electronic screens. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 years old should not play with mobile phones, IPAD or other electronic products, and children over 2 years old should be limited to 3 minutes in front of the electronic screen every day.

5. Play role-playing games

Role-playing games are not only a way to kill time, but also help children learn how to manage their daily lives during the performance. Role-playing can help children develop their language and social skills, and even help them express their emotions, such as sadness or fear.

Parents can help their children prepare more props needed for role-playing, such as clothes and articles for some special roles, so that children can feel more substituted when playing roles.

6. Accept children's little quirks

Sometimes children's behavior is hard for us to understand. Maybe your child wants to wear his little cloak to kindergarten one day. You may find it hard to accept, but children don't think so. When you want to object, calm down and think about it first. Will anyone get hurt if he does this? No, then why not accept it?

7. Welcome children's imaginary friends

Many children will have an imaginary friend of their own. Some parents will worry about whether there will be problems with their children or even tell them that the friend does not exist. Experts believe that this is the embodiment of children's creative thinking. When children have fears or worries, they will ease their emotions in this way. Usually, you can let your child continue with his? Friends? Play, when this? Friends? Let the child have bad behavior, so it should be corrected.

8. Set some restrictions

It's really interesting to break the rules occasionally, but it's important to let children know that we have rules that we must abide by, just like an imaginary train will eventually enter the station. For example, you can allow children to play the game of pirate ship under the dining table, but they can't play at mealtimes.

The importance of children's imagination

Early childhood is the most imaginative period for babies. Stories told by parents can stimulate the development of babies' imagination, and rich imagination often comes from association. Many babies can associate one thing with many related things when you talk about it, which is the beginning of imagination. Cultivating your baby's imagination from an early age is very important for your baby's future growth!