Little Peanuts @鱼想天开's son is a Lego fan, but she is not here today to talk about robot training classes, but to reflect on the various educational toys, we have given them too much educational significance. What do you think about the author's opinion? Welcome to the comment area to talk about your opinion.
This article was developed by Little Peanuts @鱼想天 in the Little Peanut Writing Project. The original title is: Is Lego really good for our children?
Looking at the living room floor, on the sofa, on the coffee table, the small parts scattered around, and a semi-finished product on the ground, suddenly could not help, and must write "How much benefit does Lego have for children?"
The phrase "Lego", especially LEGO, refers to all kinds of assembled toys that have appeared after Lego.
My son started to participate in LEGO robot training from the time of kindergarten work. I don’t go into the history of LEGO. Baidu is just fine. I believe that if you are willing to read this article, there are children in the family who are fans of Lego or assembled toys. It must be said that the training of LEGO robots is still very professional. Its teaching philosophy is based on the learning theory of the child psychologist Piaget. The courses developed are both fun and educational. Since it is so good, why do I have to say "Don't exaggerate the benefits of Lego for children?"
Listen to me slowly.
Since my son came to Lego in kindergarten, every time he went to a place with a toy store, he must buy Lego toys. At the beginning, I felt that this was very good, indicating that the training was effective. The child liked to play with the assembly, that is, exercised the ability to work, and developed intelligence. Especially when the child is young, seeing a small child can patiently spend a lot of time to complete a finished product of precision components, parents will feel particularly fulfilled. I think this feeling should be the main reason why parents are willing to continue to buy Lego toys for their children and continue to register for robot training.
However, after a few years, the child grew up, and I slowly found some misunderstandings.
First, it will not mean that the hands-on ability is good.
My child's hands-on ability is good, the level of hand-made is the leader in the boys, and I usually like to assemble a small piece of furniture. Are these abilities related to LEGO? I thought it was there before. The small parts of the assembled toy are very fine. If the child is so small, it will play with them. The ability of the fingers to move fine must be trained.
But later, after he was in elementary school, I found that it was not the case, at least not all. During the course of his studies, he showed a lot of disharmony between hands and feet, no power in his wrists, unbalanced bodywork when writing, and the same chores as he could, and he could not see a little bit of a strong hand. Later, I checked some books and communicated with the teachers of the sports promotion classes he participated in. I slowly reversed my previous views. Playing toys is definitely not equal to the ability to do it.
Hands-on ability is actually a complicated mental action. It requires children to have ideas to achieve, to have the ability to perform, to have the will to complete, and to have the strength of the body to cooperate. It needs to be deliberately trained, cultivated, fed back and consolidated in some activities, not just by playing with a toy.
In general, we will focus on the cultivation of children's hands-on ability from an early age. Although they try to miss it in the process, they are also quite right. Now seriously rethinking, the events that really have a positive impact on his hands-on ability include: art classes in kindergarten, deliberate exercise in everyday life, such as woodworking, painting, crafts, cooking and housework.
Second, when Lego became a commercial toy, it actually killed the imagination.
Today, the most popular of LEGO is not to use its parts to build an architectural work - this is the original intention of Lego blocks - but the heroes of the Lego in Toys R Us. Higher, stronger, bigger, more expensive! If you continue to buy Lego toys for your child for several years, I believe that you will also feel such a delicate toy. The child can just complete it according to the instructions. Whether it is viewed from the shelf, or the ultimate fate of escape, it It’s really just a toy. Moreover, precisely because of its excessive sophistication, it lacks the most important imagination of the child in the game and toy process.
Waldorf's early childhood education system, which pays more attention to art and humanities education, will pay special attention to this. In Waldorf's early childhood education, the toys played by early children are rough and faceless. The story to be read cannot be a beautiful picture book. It is the most likely space to provide children with imaginative participation.
Third, the education orientation is giving Lego a heavier position. Is this really beneficial?
In the province's Xiaoshengchu enrollment brochure, the recruitment of "robot special students" was listed, so the Lego robot training in the provincial map was immediately in jeopardy. During the holidays, I enrolled my child in a short-term class to learn scrach programming. It was obvious that some parents were eager to get the robot to gain the extra strength of the robot in order to get extra points at the beginning of Xiaosheng.
However, during the training, I regretted that my son can master the programming skills very quickly after so many years of LEGO training, but he lacks the quality necessary to succeed in one thing: for example, patiently polishing his program. Perfect; for example, doing basic work.
I have also seen a mother who is arrogantly slapping her child because he has a bad relationship with the members in the group group and does not want to learn again. The mother and the child play each other in the corridor how to deal with emotions and express their opinions mistakenly. How can children learn to communicate and cooperate in groups when they learn in such interactions?
Most teachers of LEGO training are fairly amiable, especially with children. However, I have also observed that the higher the class, the teacher is male-dominated, and the students are mainly boys. In addition to technical teaching, there is really little education and communication. Some LEGO teachers will also reflect that a certain classmate in their class is very difficult to get along with, but they have not received training in education. In fact, they do not know how to deal with this situation. The LEGO robot is really just a business training program, without the educational role that parents expect.
Fourth, there will be a lot of children who will play together, and the children with natural deficiency are also a lot of
The influence of electronic media on children has not been much to say, and it is possible to calm down and observe the surroundings. In fact, these assembled toys are the same. A child squatting on the floor for a long time and spelling a Lego nine-headed dragon is completely different from his state of playing outside for an hour. Look at the face of the latter and you will know.
Once my son was convincing me to buy a more advanced LEGO, I was really annoyed and asked him: "Under what circumstances can you not play Lego toys?"
He said: "If I have a garden with a variety of insects, I don't want to be happy, I will go to observe insects."
His answer caused me a lot of reflection. Sometimes, adults want to play mobile phones, throwing TVs, computers or another mobile phone to their children. Similarly, sometimes throwing children into a pile of parts toys is more than worrying about playing with him, exercising, and climbing mountains. .
So, is the child falling in love with the assembly, or do we want them to fall in love with the assembly?
A lot of things are just a means and a tool, and it is only about the boundary between being too good or not. This article is not written to criticize Lego. Lego is a kind of toy, but it can be replaced by many other things. I just share my personal views with my personal parenting experience and hope to make fewer mistakes on the way to parent-child education.
Source: Chinese and foreign toy nets
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