This documentary records the process of an expert team led by a pediatrician, Dr. Guti Singh, exploring various behaviors of babies before they are two years old.
The second episode of the documentary is entitled integration into society, and the main content is about children's social ability.
The study found that babies born a week ago showed strong interest in faces, and when they saw people, their brain activities were significantly more frequent.
7 months to 1 year, distinguish between good and bad.
Babies from 7 months to 1 year can tell the difference between good and bad. The researchers performed a puppet show for the children. The red puppet tried to climb the mountain, the blue puppet pushed it down, and the yellow puppet helped it climb the mountain.
After the story, the researchers asked the babies to choose whether they wanted a yellow puppet or a blue puppet. All the babies chose a yellow puppet. Researchers believe that this is the starting point for children to learn to trust others.
About 2 years old, self-awareness and empathy appear.
From about 19 months, the baby began to pay attention to his image in the mirror. At the age of 2, the baby will be very concerned about what is on his face.
It can be seen that as early as 3 years old, the baby is already developing his social skills, so how should parents cultivate their children's social skills?
1, interact with your baby more.
Lawrence Cohen, a child psychologist, said that compassion, emotional intelligence and love are all learned from intimate relationships.
Although babies may have limited understanding ability, they can perceive and learn emotions and emotional intelligence from their parents' emotions, actions and tone very early.
Therefore, parents should spend more time interacting with their baby, talking to him and making eye contact.
2. Create social opportunities for your baby
It is mentioned in the documentary that the baby has developed self-awareness and empathy as early as 2 years old, so if possible, it is best to help the baby find a companion to play with before 2 years old, so that the baby can get in touch with other people as much as possible.
3. Guide the baby to understand the most basic emotions and social rules.
Finally, although the baby can't understand what socialization is before the age of 3, it is absolutely necessary for parents to guide the baby to understand the basic emotions and learn simple social rules.
For example, when the baby is afraid, say to him, "Are you afraid?" After several times, he can understand what "fear" is and guide him to say "thank you" when the baby is helped. After repeating it several times, he will know when to say "thank you".
In addition to retelling the scenes when things happened, parents can also use the scenes in picture books to teach their children and share this set of "The First Picture Book for Cultivating Children's Happiness".
This picture book is the most successful work of Joey Cowley, a national treasure writer of New Zealand children's literature. The brochure of this picture book is very small, and the contents are all told in the first person. It is very close to the baby's life, easy to understand and more suitable for younger babies.
This picture book has three themes: emotional health, social communication and physical health, and each theme is divided into eight sub-themes. A * * * has 24 volumes.
Mainly through the personal experience of the protagonist, tell the children how to ease their emotions when we are afraid, angry and sad. What problems should we pay attention to when socializing? And what healthy habits need to be developed in daily life.