Modern moms are so knowledgeable about the existence of a variety of early development techniques that they begin to study their basics even at a time when the baby is in the womb. Every young mother considers it her duty to teach the baby to count and read as early as possible, but the main thing is not speed reading, but memory. If the child has a bad memory, then all efforts are reduced to zero. This is really so, because memory serves as the basis on which all mental skills will be piled up in the future. Figures and letters the kid will learn and at school, but the development of the memory of children of preschool age should become a priority for mothers.
Why train memory?
It's no secret that the development of memory in childhood can be considered a guarantee of good learning in the future. The child will be easier and more familiar to learn new material. But there is another reason, explaining the need for memory training in children at an early age. The fact is that in a young child, consciousness is not limited to a variety of taboos, as in adults. He easily animates in his fantasies unreal for adults images. These are the characteristics of the memory of preschool children, so it is during this period that one should teach his memorization skills in a playful form.
We train the memory
Memory is our associations and images, and we remember best what surprises, astonishes, shocking. A giant tortoise of sand, adhered to the beach with his dad, a taste of exotic bananas in the USSR, which somehow managed to get to mom - such moments are stored in memory forever, unlike chemical formulas and grammar rules. That is why the answer to the question of how to develop a child's memory, will be the following - develop in the child figurative and abstract thinking. Despite the fact that there are several types of memory, they all "work" the same way - the brighter the image, the greater the confidence that it will be remembered. Here are some tips on how to improve a child's memory since childhood:
- "Decorate" the information so that the child does not hear, but represents what you are telling him;
- consider the amount of new information;
- learn with the preschooler poems, songs, tongue twisters and sayings;
- more often ask questions about what he saw or heard today (from his grandmother, father, on TV);
- discuss the tales that you read together, discuss the heroes and their actions.
There are special exercises-games that help to develop memory in children. But if the child develops normally, then there is no special need for them. Quite enough active communication with parents and peers. Since the age of ten months, you can play with the baby in "find a toy", "what's missing?", "Where's Mom?". With a one-year-old child, it's interesting to play "repeating" when your mother performs some kind of action, and the baby should repeat it. Remember, the attention that parents give to the development of memory
The help of nature and not only
Products containing certain substances are quite capable of improving a child's memory. Without protein, iodine, omega-3 fatty acids, the brain is not able to work fully. Magnesium, zinc and iron are no less important. But it is not always possible to diversify the preschooler's daily diet so that vitamins for memory for children come in the form of syrups, lozenges, gels, and dragees. The form depends on the age of the child. If you decide to stop your choice on vitamin-mineral complexes that improve memory, pay attention to the presence of vitamins dyes, fragrances. Well, if there are no such components in the vitamins.