Hello, I'm mother Kirin.
Some time ago, I bought a lot of sticker books for Qiqi and Yiyi online, and then they posted me like this-
I sent this photo to my friend Vera. She laughed "ha ha ha" and comforted me by saying, "Children especially like stickers, and everyone in the family likes them!"
It turns out that different worlds have the same puzzle: "Why do children like to stick stickers?"
On July 7th 1 1 when my family went out to travel, I was about half a year old and found a sticker on the wall of a homestay, which made me interested in this thing. Later, during the Chinese New Year, they saw me sticking stickers on windows and walls, which instantly opened up a new world for them to develop stickers.
Their love for stickers reminds me of my love for stickers when I was a child.
Therefore, stickers are definitely not the patent of modern children, but their hobbies. So, why do children love to post? I thought about it when I had July 7th and 1 1 day.
My family first saw the sticker when I was about half a year old. At that time, they just felt colorful and patted the wall, unlike now, when they look at a picture book, they think it is a sticker and want to tear it off.
Meet the needs of hand development in sensitive period.
In fact, this should be closely related to the development of children. Before 1 year-old, children are basically in the period of mouth desire, and more often they use their mouths to "explore the world".
With the development of his great movement, his small hands are becoming more and more flexible. Screwing the bottle cap, grasping the spoon and grasping the food with his hands are all "showing off" his "special skills", among which stickers have such functions.
With colored stickers, it is easier to attract the baby's attention with rich colors. If it is something similar to an animated character that children are familiar with, it is more likely to be favored by children.
Of course, it's better to put this sticker on my mother's face and be happy-every time they put this sticker on my face, they jump around happily, probably suddenly finding that it conforms to their "understanding of beauty."
There are many kinds of sticker books on the market now, such as puzzle stickers, shadow stickers and focus stickers. All these need children to observe, compare and think before they can complete.
At first, I thought it was difficult for two-year-old Qi Qi and Qi Yi, so I didn't give them a sticker book. But then I found that sticker books have other uses.
Teach children to know things with stickers.
Two-year-olds are not particularly focused. Sometimes I take them to read at home, or play outside, and often listen to two or three things and run away.
There are many different items in the sticker book. Sometimes I tell two boys the names of things and ask them to tear them off. They will play seriously and concentrate, so they will know and say a lot of things.
Exercise children's fine hand movements.
I have seen the analysis of some children's poor handwriting after school by parenting blogger big J. She said that this is not only related to letting children write with pens too early, but also related to the lack of flexibility in training fingers in the early days.
I quite agree with her.
In fact, children's writing, taking spoons and eating with chopsticks are all responses to their opponents' grasping ability. As the book "Grasping the Sensitive Period of Children Aged 0-6" says:
This process can be trained by holding spoons, chopsticks or stickers that children like.
Children tear off stickers and stick them on walls or people's faces. In fact, it is the repeated training of the opponent's fingertips, which is good for children to write in the future.
Let children gradually have a sense of boundaries and train hand-eye coordination.
This is my recent feeling: At first, Qi Qi and Yiyi liked to put up stickers everywhere. Later, when I consciously taught them to recognize things, I asked them to put stickers in the empty boxes of books.
Through the cooperation of hands and eyes, they will try their best to stick stickers on the sideline and be happy when they find that they have done a good job-in fact, this is the embryonic form of border awareness.
Cultivate children's aesthetic ability
Sticker books, like picture books, have their own style of painting. When the children are older, they may have their own favorite sticker style, which will change from "scribbling" to "designing stickers".
This is the same reason that we designed patterns in our diaries when we were young and played with our notebooks when we were older. Maybe children's aesthetics are hidden in a small sticker book!
Therefore, the sticker book is really a treasure! Does your baby like stickers? Are there any good sticker books? Please leave a message and let me know!