The year when your child gets 3 is the
so-called “year of letters”. Some children pay real attention to letter, even
when their parents ignore.
1. 3 years old and mentality starting point
3 years old is the important milestone to
mark that the forebrain flourishes. This is the mentality area, so the ability
of thinking increases dramatically. Until this period, education focuses on
teaching children how to memorize things but from this period on, the education
should be moved towards teaching them how to think mentally. You must know this
beforehand, that if you let your 3-year-old children play more mentality games;
he/she easily becomes children who have a high ability of mentality or high IQ.
Thus, in this period, the games for children are not simple twisting a screw,
or playing with battery-powered toys, etc. only, but let them play games that
they can apply their thoughts to solve problems. The suitable games are those
which cause children to think out, build or create new objects. For example, 3
wooden triangles in 3 colors seem to be very useful ones.
3
years old and mentality starting point
Try most so that children can use their
fingers to solve tasks that require remedial or technological gestures. For
example, let children use scissors, or glue, play with folding papers, rope,
etc. (a long rope fastened into a big circle, knitted over by fingers to turn
it into different shapes), or uncorking, etc. If you let your children play that
kinds of game, the can use their fingers dexterously. Vice versa, without using
their fingers, they will become clumsy.
2. Assist kids 50% so that they can experience, 3 year-old time is the
time of independence
Ability of thinking by themselves will help
kids to be more independent, and they will have their own thoughts for the very
first time.
Independence forms gradually. At first, it
is only the half-dependence when the child leaves mother, or looks forward to
mother’s assistance and that processes go around. However, this half-dependence
is very important. At 3 years old, children won’t expect their mother to do all,
but they want to do by themselves. They want to express their own wills, or
emotions therefore their parents reckon them as “naughty” or “hostile”.
Let them accumulate their own experiences
from outside. But a 3-year-old kid hardly accumulates experiences from the
outside. It comes down to the mother’s responsibility to create children’s
experience at utmost. For example: take the children to many places such as
zoos, aquariums, beaches or mountains. However, only taking them to those
places can’t reach the educational purpose. In those places, children have to
absorb exact definitions, and a good conception as a mentality basement.
Ability
of thinking by themselves will help them to be more independent.
3. Improve lingual abilities by talking/reading to children
It is said that 3-year-old children have a
strong desire of eliminating all lingual barriers. It is because they are in
the period of lingual development since they are 2. In the whole life, this is
the period in which the children can memorize words the most. Thus, parents
should teach them as many words as they can. And how to develop lingual
ability? The most important thing is that you have to talk to the children as
much as you can. Talking to them seriously, using correct words as talking to
an adults. And also, you should talk into topics so that children can think and
assume. For example, you shouldn’t talk in short “Shut up!” If you say “I am
talking on the phone”, the children will understand the reason why you ask them
to keep quiet. Use causal sentences such as “We should bring the umbrella with
us. It is forecasted to be rain today”.
In addition to talking to children, read to
them a lot (stories with pictures, not manga). Children love being read to that
much. Try to keep reading from 5-10 stories to them.
Concurrently, through reading, children
will pay more attention to letters, and they will desire to read by themselves.
That’s the most wonderful thing. The year when your child gets 3 is the
so-called “year of letters”. Children pay utmost attention to letters, although
parents ignore, they keep on asking “Which letter is that? How to read it?” and
they will memorize the alphabet soon and then can read by themselves fluently.
So, which books are suitable to
3-year-olds?
Ghost stories are definitely unsuitable to
children. The more the stories are close to the children’s daily lives, the
more attractive they are. Choose books which have simple contents about their
daily lives. The fact proves that books which are chosen and borrowed the most
are ones having contents close to them.
