How to concentrate?
Attention refers to a person's psychological activity and the ability to focus on something. It is an old and eternal topic. A Russian educator once pointed out,‘Attention is the only entrance of our hearts and everything in the consciousness must go through it.’Therefore, being able to concentrate on something is called attention.
Inattention, that disorders concentration, has a huge impact on school-age children. Not improved or treated in time, they will delay the primary time of learning cultural knowledge. Their education and employment in the future, even their life will be affected.
As for children, Inattention is caused by many factors, of which zinc deficiency is the most common one. Being vulnerable to environmental disturbance, they can't listen attentively in class, leading to distraction. They frequently change their objects, can't concentrate when they do their homework. Parents describe it as‘carelessly doing while playing’. It seems they are far away from parents’ instructions. They listen in the eyes of parents, but do not listen in the absence of them. Things begin well but end badly. They constantly drink water, eat, or urinate, interrupting homework and extending time obviously. Stunned, some children stare at one place or the teacher, daydreaming, but they don't know what are in their minds. When the teacher asked questions, they often didn't know the content of the question was.
The dangers of inattention
1. Concentration time of them, who are easily distracted, is shorter than that of normal children;
2. They answer what isn’t asked, can't describe things or give reasons;
3. They can’t catch up with the new level of the course, are unable to keep up with progress, and their performance declines gradually;
4. Procrastination brings a little knowledge of the lectures, because they are attracted by irrelevant things. That causes consuming time and low efficiency;
5. Even when they go for the exam, they neither remember what they have learned nor write correctly, resulting in bad test scores.
Many parents and teachers don't know how to solve this problem or lay hands on it. We must first learn about why inattention appears during classes. Generally speaking, the main reasons are as following:
Physically, the brain development is imperfect, the excitement of the nerve system can’t be controlled in a balanced way and self-control ability is poor.
This is normal. As long as the education is right with their growth, most of the kids can be adjusted.
Pathologically, some children suffered from brain damage. Their auditory or visual disorder will be mistaken as a deaf, for they don't listen or ignore something. Under the guidance of specialists, these situations will be improved.
Environmentally, candy, caffeinated drinks or food laced with an artificial pigments, additives, preservatives, may stimulate the child's emotions and affect the concentration. In addition, the child's learning environment is noisy, and too much interference can affect a child's attention.
Educationally, 1) Are parents’ attitudes are consistent? 2) Are children spoiled? 3) Do they have too many toys or books? 4) Is the pace too fast that they can not adapt to family life? 5) Are there many activities at home so that a quiet environment can’t be provided? 6) Has there ever been unpleasant experience in the process of learning? Many parents have emotional stress on children. There is too much criticism and they scold children.
Psychologically, in order to get attention or to escape from the overweighted burden given by their parents, some children subconsciously achieve a goal through some strange behaviors for they have study pressure, they are in bad mood. Such mental illness will affect the concentration.
After having analyzed the above reasons, we provide the following ways to improve children’s concentration:
1. Creating quiet and comfortable learning environment is very important to them.
2. Make full use of the child's curiosity and combine his interest with attention.
3. Let them exert their imagination and relax themselves, to burst out the enthusiasm of learning.
4. Train children to raise their attention from three aspects: vision, listening and touching.
5. Use some interesting games to build up their attention.
Inattention, that disorders concentration, has a huge impact on school-age children. Not improved or treated in time, they will delay the primary time of learning cultural knowledge. Their education and employment in the future, even their life will be affected.
As for children, Inattention is caused by many factors, of which zinc deficiency is the most common one. Being vulnerable to environmental disturbance, they can't listen attentively in class, leading to distraction. They frequently change their objects, can't concentrate when they do their homework. Parents describe it as‘carelessly doing while playing’. It seems they are far away from parents’ instructions. They listen in the eyes of parents, but do not listen in the absence of them. Things begin well but end badly. They constantly drink water, eat, or urinate, interrupting homework and extending time obviously. Stunned, some children stare at one place or the teacher, daydreaming, but they don't know what are in their minds. When the teacher asked questions, they often didn't know the content of the question was.
The dangers of inattention
1. Concentration time of them, who are easily distracted, is shorter than that of normal children;
2. They answer what isn’t asked, can't describe things or give reasons;
3. They can’t catch up with the new level of the course, are unable to keep up with progress, and their performance declines gradually;
4. Procrastination brings a little knowledge of the lectures, because they are attracted by irrelevant things. That causes consuming time and low efficiency;
5. Even when they go for the exam, they neither remember what they have learned nor write correctly, resulting in bad test scores.
Many parents and teachers don't know how to solve this problem or lay hands on it. We must first learn about why inattention appears during classes. Generally speaking, the main reasons are as following:
Physically, the brain development is imperfect, the excitement of the nerve system can’t be controlled in a balanced way and self-control ability is poor.
This is normal. As long as the education is right with their growth, most of the kids can be adjusted.
Pathologically, some children suffered from brain damage. Their auditory or visual disorder will be mistaken as a deaf, for they don't listen or ignore something. Under the guidance of specialists, these situations will be improved.
Environmentally, candy, caffeinated drinks or food laced with an artificial pigments, additives, preservatives, may stimulate the child's emotions and affect the concentration. In addition, the child's learning environment is noisy, and too much interference can affect a child's attention.
Educationally, 1) Are parents’ attitudes are consistent? 2) Are children spoiled? 3) Do they have too many toys or books? 4) Is the pace too fast that they can not adapt to family life? 5) Are there many activities at home so that a quiet environment can’t be provided? 6) Has there ever been unpleasant experience in the process of learning? Many parents have emotional stress on children. There is too much criticism and they scold children.
Psychologically, in order to get attention or to escape from the overweighted burden given by their parents, some children subconsciously achieve a goal through some strange behaviors for they have study pressure, they are in bad mood. Such mental illness will affect the concentration.
After having analyzed the above reasons, we provide the following ways to improve children’s concentration:
1. Creating quiet and comfortable learning environment is very important to them.
2. Make full use of the child's curiosity and combine his interest with attention.
3. Let them exert their imagination and relax themselves, to burst out the enthusiasm of learning.
4. Train children to raise their attention from three aspects: vision, listening and touching.
5. Use some interesting games to build up their attention.
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