Parents usually worry about their children's memory power. They want that the child should have good memory so that they can do better in studies and other study related activities. They want that their children should have super memory so that they could excel in the study related competitions.
However, children's memory grows as they grew up. Their brain starts distinguishing between various things and categorise them and stores them in the respective compartments in the brain. In the early childhood kids brain could not have the capacity to distinguish between various things. All items look same to them.
The only differentiation they do is between life and non life things. They memorise things that did not move and things that move on their own. However slowly they develop distinction among living things and differentiate between human beings and animals. In the latter stages they come to know about moving non living things and non moving non living things.
In the early childhood everything for children look like a wonder. So they ask lot of questions about the things in the world. Why a thing did not move, why a bird flies, how the train moves and etc. Slowly they understand from various sources how things work.
Coming to the memory, it depends mostly on concentration. When we concentrate on a particular thing for some time we will memorise them much. The attraction of thing, the excitement being given, happiness a thing provides and other factors would make things to memorise.
Children did not forget things like train, flight, school building, things in their house, shows on the TV, friends, close relatives, regular visitors, pets, parks, play grounds etc. Because they will have a regular impact on their sensual organs.
However, parents worry about the memory of the children when they fail in exams, could not recollect what they have read and other things related to study. Here one thing has to be observed. Kids could easily recollect the stories told in the school and the shows on the TV. But they might not do the same with regard to mathematics, science, language and other things.
When the children fail in exams parents start worrying about the memory power. They ask the children to read more and more. Some even try memory boosters that did not work.
But these will not help in making the children to memorise the lessons at school. Parents must note that the lessons would be in an orderly manner and they have to be reproduced as they are. Children fear to recollect the same sentences in the same sequence as given in the lesson. They make them to fear about reading and this looks like loss of memory to the parents.
In such circumstances parents must note that it is not the failure of the children but it is the fear factor that causes the damage. When parents go on pressing the children to memorise the lessons, the children become more worried and lose their confidence.
We will discuss about how to improve the memory of children in the post.
However, children's memory grows as they grew up. Their brain starts distinguishing between various things and categorise them and stores them in the respective compartments in the brain. In the early childhood kids brain could not have the capacity to distinguish between various things. All items look same to them.
The only differentiation they do is between life and non life things. They memorise things that did not move and things that move on their own. However slowly they develop distinction among living things and differentiate between human beings and animals. In the latter stages they come to know about moving non living things and non moving non living things.
In the early childhood everything for children look like a wonder. So they ask lot of questions about the things in the world. Why a thing did not move, why a bird flies, how the train moves and etc. Slowly they understand from various sources how things work.
Coming to the memory, it depends mostly on concentration. When we concentrate on a particular thing for some time we will memorise them much. The attraction of thing, the excitement being given, happiness a thing provides and other factors would make things to memorise.
Children did not forget things like train, flight, school building, things in their house, shows on the TV, friends, close relatives, regular visitors, pets, parks, play grounds etc. Because they will have a regular impact on their sensual organs.
However, parents worry about the memory of the children when they fail in exams, could not recollect what they have read and other things related to study. Here one thing has to be observed. Kids could easily recollect the stories told in the school and the shows on the TV. But they might not do the same with regard to mathematics, science, language and other things.
When the children fail in exams parents start worrying about the memory power. They ask the children to read more and more. Some even try memory boosters that did not work.
But these will not help in making the children to memorise the lessons at school. Parents must note that the lessons would be in an orderly manner and they have to be reproduced as they are. Children fear to recollect the same sentences in the same sequence as given in the lesson. They make them to fear about reading and this looks like loss of memory to the parents.
In such circumstances parents must note that it is not the failure of the children but it is the fear factor that causes the damage. When parents go on pressing the children to memorise the lessons, the children become more worried and lose their confidence.
We will discuss about how to improve the memory of children in the post.
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