First of all, a reasonable sleep
During sleep, a lot of blood flows to the brain, delivering a lot of oxygen and nutrients, so sleep is very important for the development of the brain. When people are sleeping, the brain keeps working. Sleep gives the brain time to process information, which can strengthen the connection between brain cells and different areas of the brain, thus "consolidating memory". The process of sleep is also the process of strengthening memory. The observation of the brain by Harvard Medical School through fMRI technology shows that the brain seems to be able to transfer information from one area to a more effective area for storage during sleep. Therefore, sleep can not only make the brain keep memory, but also consolidate and promote memory, thus improving learning ability.
Children should have enough and regular sleep. Research by NSF (National Sleep Institute) shows that lack of sleep directly leads to lateness, inattention in class, bad temper and unhappiness. The biological clock in the brain controls the time to fall asleep and wake up. The biological clock is related to age and varies from person to person. Therefore, it is incorrect to emphasize going to bed early and getting up early. The Opinions on Strengthening Physical Education for Teenagers and Strengthening Teenagers' Physical Fitness issued by our government points out that the sleep time of primary school students is 10 hour, junior high school students are 9 hours, and senior high school students are 8 hours. In order to ensure that students have enough time, some primary and secondary schools in the United States have adjusted their class hours. For example, in public schools in Minneapolis, the class time was adjusted from 7: 15 to 8:40 a few years ago, and students could sleep an extra hour on average. In this way, the number of students who are late is greatly reduced and their grades are improved.
It is necessary to provide children with an environment conducive to sleep. In order to ensure that children form good habits, adults should also observe the schedule. Generally speaking, the living area of China people is not large. If adults are night owls, it's hard not to affect children. In addition, children should not drink caffeinated drinks such as tea, coffee and cola, which will excite the brain and make it difficult to fall asleep.
Second, exercise every day.
Physical exercise can not only enhance physical fitness, but also promote brain development. A comparative experiment of 546 primary school students in Canada shows (Shephare, 1996) that one hour of physical exercise every day is helpful to improve self-concept, promote learning and make children love school more. Other data also show that physical exercise can promote blood circulation, cell growth and hormone secretion. Saving the time of physical exercise for learning will not make children learn more. You can try if you don't believe me.
Third, listen to music.
Music helps to develop more agile neural networks (Eric Zhan Sen). Music helps us to think by stimulating and integrating neural activation patterns, which integrate and connect multiple brain regions to improve the efficiency and effect of the brain. Studies have proved that music activities are of great significance to promoting spatial reasoning, creativity and mathematical induction.
Research also shows that music can enhance emotional intelligence, sensory motor system, stress response system and memory system. Experts suggest that music education should start as early as possible and every child should have a music skill.
Fourth, reduce the time of watching TV.
Watching TV for a long time will weaken the function of the left brain. An Australian professor said: "When watching TV, the left cortex of the brain, which is responsible for vision, analysis and calculation, will be distracted because attention moves with the picture." On the other hand, the right cortex receiving color signals will lose information inhibition, which will reduce the channels between the left and right cortex, showing the inertia state of brain structure destruction. "Research shows that TV plays a negative role in children's analytical thinking process when reading, which reduces their reading ability. Children who rely heavily on TV, their language ability, abstract thinking ability, especially the ability to master the mathematical symbol system, will inevitably be seriously weakened.
Fifth, strengthen hobbies or specialties.
Nowadays, the society needs more and more imaginative and creative people, and needs more and more people with strong adaptability to the environment and outstanding problem-solving ability. Li Chengxian, a Korean doctor, thinks it's easy to do this: as long as you find what you are interested in and concentrate, the rest of the problems will be solved automatically. Do what you are interested in, and children will bury themselves in research. This process makes the left brain and the right brain coordinate and merge, the whole brain is stimulated in the same way, and the brain circuit becomes smooth. We often encounter such a situation, that is, children are particularly excellent in one aspect, and others will "learn as soon as they learn." It can be seen that brain training can be transferred to other aspects of learning.
Parents should encourage and cultivate their children's specialties in one aspect, and let them play or play games to their heart's content. Doing, playing and learning can improve children's endurance and mental concentration, so that children can become the masters of their own brains.
One of the misunderstandings: the breakfast mode of milk+eggs
If there is no cereal for breakfast, such as steamed bread, noodles, rice porridge, etc., it is easy to affect the height development of children. Secondly, milk can be used as water for children, and parents can give their children a small amount of water to clean their mouths after drinking milk.
Myth 2: Give children more calcium tablets to supplement calcium.
Infants and young children are not short of calcium, but lack of vitamin D to promote calcium absorption by the human body. Therefore, using a small amount of cod liver oil drops in the child's mouth for moderate complementary food supplement will have a better calcium supplement effect than eating calcium tablets.
Myth 3: Children should wear more clothes.
The temperature is as high as nearly 30℃, and some children in kindergarten are still wearing woolen pants. In fact, children tend to have more calories during exercise than adults. Parents only need to let their children wear as much as themselves.
Myth 4: Bean products are vegetables.
Bean products can be regarded as meat dishes. If children only eat minced meat and tofu, they will be short of vegetables. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are the right combination of meat and vegetables.
Myth 5: Children need bananas for dry stools.
It's no use just eating bananas. The most important thing is to help children develop good defecation habits, and defecation time should be fixed.
Myth 6: Children can't bask in the sun.
Some parents put scarves and hats on their children when they are sunbathing, and some even sunbathe through the glass. The correct way is to dry the back of the head, wrists, ankles and buttocks of children to prevent illness.
Myth 7: Viscera equals liver.
Viscera is of great benefit to children's development, and many parents try their best to give their children liver, thinking that this will do. In fact, the internal organs also include the heart, lungs and waist. The liver often contains harmful ingredients and should not be eaten more. Therefore, parents should give their children more other organs.
Myth 8: Eating snacks is harmful to health.
Give children more snacks and supplement nutrition. Especially children, it is best to give them snacks after meals until they go to bed. Children in primary schools can also use this method to enhance their development.
Myth 9: Vegetables are nutritious after peeling.
In fact, vegetable soup with skin is very nutritious, such as radish soup with skin and towel gourd soup. Vegetable leaves are more nutritious than vegetable stems. For example, cooking vegetable soup is very nutritious.
Myth 10: Children don't like meat.
In fact, children don't like to eat chewy meat, such as chicken, beef and mutton, but children like to eat chewy meat, such as bullfrog, shrimp and astragalus.