Four Good methods of baby’s logical thinking training

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Smart Lang

A grown adult has detailed and systemic logical thinking, and careful and rigorous reasoning capacity always represent with intelligent outstanding persons: from the great Detective Sherlock Holmes to business elite in today s Society, all have admirable logical thinking! Therefore, currently many new parents who have good education background and excellent integrated literacy also increasingly be concern with the training of baby logical thinking capacity. Well then, how to get the baby to understand and grasp the representational and abstract logical thinking ability?

1. Distinguish the instinct, cognize the difference.

Child psychologists pointed out that the baby unable to form an abstract logical thinking, especially around 3 years old. but it does not mean that the parents in this period can ignore or even give up the baby s thinking skills training and systemic training of abstract logical thinking. Instead, foreign scientists consider that logical thinking traning should start from earlystage. when the baby started babbling and try to communicate with people gradually, which should be the best time for baby s abstract logical thinking training.

Understanding the difference of survival instincts between the adult and baby will be beneficial to help the baby to create the basic structure of logical thinking and growth; to provide reasonable and rich information of social, lifestyle, experience and scientific knowledge; to help parents better to understand the language external performance and body external performance in baby s logical thinking; be beneficial to achieve communication of information between parents and baby in order to achieve good training for baby.

2. Real experience of logical training.

Foreign pre-school children experts and child psychologists had come up with some effective methods according to the characteristics of growth and development of young children. These methods can improve logical thinking ability of babies in their daily life.

A. Classification learning

The best way to train your baby of logical thinking ability is to teach baby to find relationships between all kinds of things and try to classify them . Classification learning can make baby learn to classify some of the commonly used items as a category according to the same identity and similarity, such as color, shape, size, purpose, and so on. Mom can show picture books to baby , and let them separate different categories from books, for axample: What is the character? What is the animal? What are the plants? What is stationery? And so on, then try to make out the different occupations and identity of these characters. In this process, parents should pay attention to guiding the baby to find a basis for classification. thus can be beneficial to baby s focusing on small details of things, enhance the powers of observation from childhood.

B. Correlation method

The core factor of Logical thinking is to find the internal relations among everything. In daily life, parents can use a variety of ordinary household items or simple personal relationship to inspire the baby s logical reasoning ability. Such as dinner time, mother can ask baby: What is the use of folks and bowls? Are they the same category as the mop at the corner? After dinner, Dad and baby can stand in front of the mirror together, father could ask: Look in the mirror, who is shorter? Who is higher? baby always call me dad , then what the baby is for dad? This effective method can use and extend the relationship among somethings which baby has known very well. and then to explore other relationships among the nature world and inspire baby to the future desire to explore.

C. Sorting

Understanding the concept: sort order , not only help improve the baby reading skills and learning ability in the future , but also being an important way of logical thinking training for baby. When we are training baby, the order can be from big to small, far to near, etc., even can be reversed order. And then help the baby to grasp first , Second , third and other ordinal numbers, and also teach baby how to count patiently. There are a lot of 2 ~ 3 years old baby can easily count from 1 to 10, even more, but not so much counting as reciting. Therefore, parents should materialize figures, such as one boy, two teachers, three flowers, etc., Make baby gradually transition to the silent counting from reading the number while pointing by fingers. In addition, parents should also make baby understand the various group things , such as large groups, small groups, so that your baby has a certain understanding of each group that all have cerntain parts. A large group contains many small groups, small groups are combined into large groups, such as, People son baby, plant trees coconut tree and so on.

D. Spatial methods

Some parents tend to consider that babies born to know up and down, left and right, inside and outside, fornt and behind and other spatial concepts, This is ,however, not the case actually. In daily life, parents should take advantage of every opportunity to lead babies acquire some spatial concept. Such as when preparing dinner at home, MOM can tell baby: Please put the chopsticks on the table, please put the small spoon in a bowl. However, for the baby, parents needn t rush to force him/her to grasp left and right . More foreign experts considerd that commonly children around the age of 5 to 6 may be able to clearly distinguish between left and right .

Logic exercises and find fault with it

Actually, It s not unattainable for parents to enhance the baby s logical thinking ability. We can play some Find Fault games to achieve more with less effort. For example, parents let babies listen to story seriously and and design some cute little errors specific to baby s age and ability. You can say what a cold day today! Dad back home and sweat heavily , The weather was great, the baby went to kindergarten wearing a raincoat .. And so on, through a simple kind of game, let your baby find out the error, you can nurture logical thinking and achieve the purpose of exercise.

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Four Good methods of baby’s logical thinking training