Have you noticed a certain coincidence: when a child needs to study or do homework, he immediately wants to eat, drink, lie down? The child is simply looking for an excuse to avoid boring and difficult things. The reason for this is a poor concentration of attention, it is difficult for a child to concentrate on one important thing. Even an adult is not so easy to collect power in a fist and patiently finish the job, let alone a small child! There is so much fun around: street, friends, TV - what are the activities here? In such cases, the child can not do without special exercises.
To train attention, you should perform several simple exercises:
1. Save the pose. Children are very active and mobile, sitting at the table quickly tires them. To help your child maintain perseverance, play games with him:
- Monument - in this game you need to portray a famous person and freeze. Mom will guess the mysterious hero. The task of the child is not to move and not blink, otherwise he will lose;
- The sea is worried - a game familiar to many, we say such words: “the sea is worried once, the sea is worried two, the sea is worried three, the sea figure is frozen!” After the word "Freeze" the child should take the pose of a figure or object. Mom must guess who the child is portraying.
2. We reset the voltage. For a good concentration of attention, the child must learn to relax. Small exercises will help him in this:
- Inhale and exhale deeply 6 times;
- Stretch, stretching arms and legs;
- Massage the nose bridge, whiskey, rub your palms.
3. Keep quiet. There is another thing that prevents the child from concentrating - this is extraneous chatter. Somewhere he’ll ask not for business, he starts to “cry”, voicing replicas from cartoons, involuntarily leaving the essence of his work. You can get rid of this habit by playing games:
- We are silent - we teach the child to be silent for a long time, we say such words to the child: “Chock-chock, teeth on a hook, whoever says a word, that click!” and be silent with the child. The first to say the word has lost;
- Crocodile - with the help of facial expressions and gestures it is necessary to depict animals. The second participant will guess. The one who guessed more won.
4. We fix the look. In order to be able to concentrate children's attention, it is necessary to learn how to hold an object in sight for a long time. The following games are suitable for this:
- Darts - throw darts at the target; for safety, use Velcro balls;
- Target shooting in the dash;
- Cerso - throwing rings on sticks;
- Embroidery - for girls;
- Burning is for boys.
5. We switch attention. Whatever the child is distracted for a long time and quickly gets involved in work, he needs to learn how to switch his attention. In this, games with conditional signals will help him:
- Claps - upon hearing one clap, the child must raise his hands, two claps — squat, three — swirl;
- Confusion - you need to show the child body parts and name them incorrectly, the child’s task is to quickly name the name, for example: touch the chin and say “ear”, the child should quickly correct you, then touch your mouth and say “eye”, etc. During the game, accelerate the pace, just do not get confused.
6. Memory training. We teach the child to remember a place, things. To do this, play the game “Put in Place”. Arrange the objects, let the child remember them and the place where they lie. Then let the child leave the room and at this moment switch objects. The task of the child is to put everything in its place.
If after training the child can hardly concentrate, then it is worth paying attention to his health. Some cases may indicate hyperactivity disorder or attention deficit disorder. All this should not be ignored, be sure to consult with a specialist.
