How to develop a child's concentration and stability of attention

"Be attentive!" "Concentrate!" If you have to pronounce such phrases, it means that it is time to pay attention to the development of concentration and stability of attention, to promote the formation of mindfulness. Whether the child is ready to study at school, what is his cognitive activity, how successful his education will be at school, it all depends on the characteristics of the development of attention .

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Attention is closely related and difficult to separate from other mental processes. It depends on how accurate and detailed the reproduction will be. The focus and duration of mental activity depends on how developed attention is. Attention helps in training memory and will.

Sustained attention begins to actively develop only by the age of 9-10. Until this time, attention is, as a rule, of an involuntary, unstable, short-term character. It is easy for children to concentrate on what they like and are interested in, otherwise it takes enough effort to concentrate. Therefore, it is important to form the child's habit of being attentive, since insufficient attention development entails a number of problems.

Signs of inattention:

• The child cannot concentrate on details, makes mistakes due to inattention
• There is an inability to hold attention and listen to speech addressed to the child
• Increased distraction
• The child cannot complete the task on his own, without outside help and reminders
• Negative attitude towards tasks that require tension from the child
• You can avoid such problems if you take into account the individual characteristics of the child and apply exercises that are aimed at developing attention.

There are many effective exercises for training concentration and stability of attention, for example, Crossing out letters...

This exercise is based on the Bourdon test, which is aimed at identifying the development of concentration, stability, and also the switchability of attention. You will need a piece of paper with letters in random rows. Instead of letters, you can use numbers, shapes. You can take text from a newspaper or a magazine text.

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Developing, training attention is just as important and necessary as teaching a child to read, write, and count. Formation of the habit "Be attentive" allows you to develop mindfulness as a personality trait. The exercises can be used not only in working with children, but also for training concentration and stability of attention of adults. Please share in the comments if the information received was useful to you.

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