According to the research team on the infant brain of Dr. Reynolds, GD, Psychology Department, University of South Carolina, USA: The ability to remember always requires a repetitive and long enough process.
From 3.5 months of age, children begin to develop the ability to remember by seeing similar points long enough, from 30 seconds. By 5 months of age, children only need 20 seconds to be able to note similarities and to register primitive memory in cognitive activities.
* Suggested practical instructions for parents:
When playing or talking with your child, you should spend at least 30 seconds in each action and repeating these actions many times a day will help your baby learn and develop memory from 5 months old.
ORIENTATION FOR YOUNG BRAIN
When participating in play or learning activities, children will follow a closed process of "directed approach" strategies to understand that activity from their parents or people playing with them. The targeted approach strategy includes 4 goals:
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Children will observe the parents' facial gestures to understand the parents' emotions, which then turn into the baby's own emotions (As shared by Prof. Wellman in 2014).
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The child will listen to how many times the mother repeats the same words to describe this activity. With each repetition lasting 20-30 seconds, the child will begin to remember a puzzle piece. If enough puzzle pieces are put together, the child will understand how this game works or is (According to a report by Prof. Saffran 2003; Reynolds 2005)
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At the same time, children gradually develop awareness of the repetitive existence of certain activities. For example, when a child sees his mother pushing a toy car to get it going, and he sees his mother pushing a lawnmower. Of course, gradually the baby realizes that the pushing action is to create movement.
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Imitation is a goal that children always want to experience and also to prove whether their definitions about it are correct.
All of these goals are re-evaluated by the child from the parents to make sure they are "worth learning". Children find ways to attract their parents' attention, such as asking you to read the same book over and over again, or screaming when you pick up a toy. This is the baby's way of checking whether his emotions, language and imitation are correct. Babies can use language gestures to communicate such as smiling, rambling, asking questions and always making eye contact. In the above ways, your baby always pays attention to understand you. That's the action your baby is learning.
STRATEGY “ORIENTED APPROACH”
One piece of advice is that parents should increase interaction for children to experience the 4 goals they are aiming for. For example, parents can express their faces with different emotions such as happiness, excitement, surprise.
Besides, parents emphasize and repeat some ideas that parents want children to learn. In addition, parents can increase forms of fun for children to participate in such as counting objects, taking things out of the basket and putting things back.
For example: The game consists of 2 identical cartons, in turn you put a large toy on box 1 and a small toy on box 2. Now let's sort the toys together.
* You choose a toy and bring it to bin 1 and compare it, then to bin 2, you make a gesture of comparing the 2 items and look surprised, oh wow, this is tiny and you put it in The box is designated to contain small toys and says "Let's drop 1,2,3! Buzz! Buzz!". And now it's your turn... your baby will imitate and act like mom. When your baby is about to drop the toy, don't forget the command "1,2,3 drop, Buzz."
The activity helps children practice memory and learn to compare big and small. You can also use this game to train your baby to clean up their toys after each time they play.
When your child imitates the language or actions you do, encourage him or her to do it. You should not worry about your child doing something wrong. When he experiences something wrong, he will return to the process again to evaluate from the beginning. This is necessary for the learning process.
During the reassessment stage, you should create conditions to respond and communicate well with your baby. This will help your child confirm and relearn easily.
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