What games do children (0-3 years old) play?

As the saying goes, thirty makes eighty. 0-3 years old is the most critical period for a person's intellectual development. How to grasp this critical period is unclear to many parents. Many parents adopt the traditional way of child-rearing in order to work, thinking that their children can eat well and leave them to the elderly and nannies (illiterate) for full care. This way, which only stays at the level of nurturing and raising, is not conducive to children's intellectual growth. Some parents are too eager to see their children become talents, and they can't wait for their children to study and do math problems when they are still young. This way of encouraging children is not conducive to the healthy development of children's body and mind.

Dr. Lin Shaoyong from the Department of Child Health of Guangdong Maternal and Child Health Hospital pointed out that it is children's nature to love to play. The correct way to raise children aged 0-3 is to let them learn through games, communicate with them more and play games.

Classic game building blocks are the first choice, with a wide range of applications, suitable for children over 9 months. 9-month-old children can sit still alone and turn around flexibly. At this time, children can play with simple building blocks, such as building high. In the process of climbing, you can not only train your child's hand-eye coordination ability, but also train your child's finger fine movement ability. A little bigger, you can let children play with more complex building blocks, such as letting children play with shaped building blocks, or building different shapes with building blocks. Children's finger coordination and spatial imagination can be trained in the game.

Lin Shaoyong hit the nail on the head and pointed out that building blocks are one of the few toys suitable for children on the market. Although all kinds of toys on the market are beautifully made, interesting and exciting, and many of them are high-tech, most of them are not suitable for children aged 0-3. Children are not fit to play with complicated toys.

Lin Shaoyong suggested that parents might as well make some simple local toys at home and play games with their children so that they can really learn in the game.

Homemade toys 1: fishing. Suitable for children aged 1- 1.5. Required materials: several pieces of hard paper (cut into the shape of a fish), several paper clips (made of fish hooks), threads, small wooden sticks (made of fishing rods) and magnets (glued together with hard paper). This game can train children's comprehensive ability, especially finger coordination and cognitive ability (including color, shape, movement, etc. ), as well as language skills.

Homemade toys II: Homemade pictures. Suitable for children aged 1.5 -2 years. Materials required: paper, brush. Parents can make some targeted pictures, such as drawing a complete horse and a horse with a missing leg in front of their children at the same time, and let the children point out the difference between the two pictures. This kind of targeted pictures can train children's observation ability, and also instill the concepts of categories and numbers, which is enlightening to children.

Homemade toy 3: Golf club (or gateball). Suitable for 1 children over half a year old. Required materials: a plastic bottle, the bottle mouth can be plugged with a newspaper rolled into a column to extend the overall length; A little ball. Parents can instill concepts such as the rules of the game into their children, and at the same time, they can also train their children's arm strength, hand-eye coordination, and more importantly, they can give them more opportunities to learn to run. This game has a lot of exercise and is especially suitable for overweight children.

As long as you have a brain, you can come up with creative games that are beneficial to the healthy development of children's body and mind. Dr. Lin has always stressed that games are not just as simple as playing with toys, nor are they children's private affairs. Games are very important. Toys are just a teaching aid, a physical bridge to help parents and children communicate, and play an auxiliary role. Singing children's songs, playing story solitaire and other games are also good choices, although there is no physical bridge support.