The child does not love academic performance is poor, still do not want to do homework, attention is not concentrated how to treat

Before the summer vacation, my friend went to attend her daughter’s parents’ meeting. After the end, she was not calm. The reason was that the teacher said that her daughter studied hard and did not need to worry about the teacher, but her mind was always wandering in class.

She also finally found her daughter study hard, but it is not up the reason. The teacher’s focus in class is more than two times more efficient than his self-study after class. In the most critical time, the child can not concentrate on studying seriously, the effect will be poor, of course.

What is attention?

Attention is a kind of mental activity, is to mobilize all the sensory nervous system of the human body, such as hearing, vision, touch, all concentrated in one point. When one is focused, the body is relaxed, but the mind is focused.

In the state of concentration, you can automatically block all interference from the external environment, lose the ability to perceive everything around you, and focus on what you care about. A child with good concentration will learn new information quickly, remember it well, and be able to draw parallels.

Not only children, but also adults often have trouble concentrating, which leads to forgetting things and slow learning. We can observe that those who have achieved outstanding performance in their field of study, in addition to their own hard work, their attention is not poor, that is, we say have strong learning ability.

Why can children not concentrate?

Family environmental factors

If you look at children who are not paying attention, you will find that there is one or more family members who are always yelling, maybe it is the mother, maybe it is the elderly, or there is a lot of fighting in the family. When children grow up in such an environment, their attention is distracted to observe people’s expressions, because they do not know when a loud sound will suddenly appear again, and their attention does not extend to their inner root.

Habit factor

When children are young, even when they are just a few months old, some of their parents’ habits actually have an effect on their children. After the baby wakes up, in the state of not crying, try not to disturb her. Their brains are racing, and if the mother can’t stop touching or talking to her baby, her thoughts will be interrupted and she won’t be able to continue thinking and observing her surroundings,

Parents are tempted to interrupt their children playing with their toys and ask, “Would you like something to eat?” “, “Look how dirty the hands, hurry to wash hands”…… This is a very common situation. These acts of kindness can actually affect children’s concentration. To quote a famous child psychologist, “Don’t disturb your children unless they invite you.”

Now that you know how important attention is, what are some ways to teach your child to focus?

Correct bad habits

Parents should not interfere too much when children are eating or playing by themselves. When a child says she does not want to eat at the dinner table, the parents should tell her: the table is the place to eat, once you leave here, you can’t eat any more food, must wait until the next meal time, during which you may be hungry, you will be very uncomfortable, are you sure you don’t want to eat?

If the child insists on not eating, parents should strictly implement the content just said, not in order to let the child eat more, take toys to coax, develop the habit of playing while eating. The same goes for children playing on their own. Parents should just be there to observe quietly, without constantly interrupting them.

Practice mindfulness consciously

Word training: Parents can choose a short paragraph of text to read to the child, let the child count the frequency of a word, after reading to check whether it is correct.

Challenge game: Randomly distribute 25 numbers in a 5*5 square and ask the child to look for them in order of number size, each time as short as possible. This is a game that parents can play with their children, but also for adults who want to improve their concentration.

Word training: Parents can find thirty phrases that can be divided into two categories, such as animal and plant, and read them back to their children. Agree in advance that if they hear the word animal, they should pat the table with their right hand, and if they hear the word plant, they should pat it with their left. This game can most intuitively reflect the child is in a few minutes when the mind wandering.

Develop an extra-curricular interest

Can observe what the child is interested in, let the child do their interest in things, all say that interest is the best teacher, children do their own like things, attention will concentrate naturally.

If you can control your attention, this skill can be extended to other areas, such as studying textbooks.

If you do not find that the child is particularly interested in what, it is recommended that the child learn painting. In the process of painting, the child needs to constantly observe the subtle places of things, but also need to mobilize their attention, improve the child’s observation, attention, aesthetic ability, imagination and color matching ability.