# magical knowledge season #
Hello everyone, I am Qilin’s mother.
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 When my friend Vera looked at it, she laughed out loud "hahaha" and comforted me by saying, "Children all like stickers very much, and my Tiantian loves them too!"
It turns out that there are different worlds. , the same puzzle: "Why do children like to put stickers on them?"
When my family, Qiqi and Yiyi, were traveling when they were about six months old, they found stickers on the wall of a B&B. This stuff generated a lot of interest. Later, during the Chinese New Year, they watched me put window grilles on the windows and high stickers on the walls, which instantly opened up a new world of sticker development for them.
Their love for stickers reminds me of my love for stickers when I was a child.
Therefore, stickers are definitely not a patent of modern children, but a common hobby of children. So, why do children love stickers? After I had Qiqi and Yiyi, I started thinking about this issue.
My children, Qiqi and Yiyi, saw stickers for the first time when they were about six months old. At that time, they just thought they were colorful and looked at the wall and patted them. It was not like looking at a picture book now. , I thought it was a sticker and tried to peel it off.
Meet the development needs of the hands during the sensitive period
In fact, this should be closely related to the child's development. Before the age of 1, children are basically in the oral stage and use their mouths more to "explore the world."
As his gross motor development improves and his little hands become more flexible, he can twist bottle caps, grab spoons, and eat finger foods... all of which are "showing off" that he is "special in play". Among them, the stickers are like this function.
Plus, the stickers are colorful and colorful, making it easier to attract the baby's attention. If it is something like an animated character that is familiar to the child, it will be more likely to be favored by the child.
Of course, even if I say one thousand or ten thousand, I am still not as happy as putting this sticker on my mother’s face - every time they put the sticker on my face, they would jump up and down with joy. Perhaps they suddenly discovered that this look conformed to their "understanding of beauty."
There are many kinds of sticker books on the market now, such as puzzle stickers, shadow stickers, concentration stickers, etc., all of which require children to observe, compare and think to complete them.
At first, I thought this was difficult for the two-year-olds Qiqi and Yiyi, so I didn’t give them the sticker book to play with. But later I discovered that there are other uses for sticker books.
Use stickers to teach children to recognize objects
Two-year-old children are not particularly focused. Sometimes, when I take them to read a book at home or play outside, I often listen to the lesson about recognizing objects. Two or three of them ran away happily.
There are many different items in the sticker book. Sometimes I will tell the two boys the names of the items and ask them to tear them off. They will play very seriously and attentively, and they will get to know each other. And can say the names of many things.
Exercise children’s fine hand movements
I have seen parenting blogger Da J’s analysis of some children’s poor handwriting after school. She said that in addition to letting children pick up a pen to write too early, this is also related to the lack of training in finger flexibility in the early stage.
I very much agree with her point of view.
In fact, children writing, holding spoons, and eating with chopsticks are all reflections of adequate hand grasping ability. As stated in the book "Capturing the Sensitive Period of 0-6-year-old Children":
This process can be trained by holding a spoon, holding chopsticks, or by sticking stickers as the child likes.
When a child tears off a sticker and sticks it on the wall or a person's face, it is actually a repetitive training of fingertip holding movements, which will be good for the child in the future such as writing.
Let children gradually develop a sense of boundaries and train hand-eye coordination.
This is something I have only recently experienced: At first, Qiqi and Yiyi liked to put stickers everywhere, but later I realized When he was teaching them to recognize things, he asked them to put stickers in the empty frames in the book.
Through the cooperation of hands and eyes, they will try their best to stick the stickers inside the sidelines, and when they find that they have done well, they will be very happy - in fact, this is This is the prototype of boundary awareness.
Cultivate children's aesthetic ability
A sticker book is like a picture book and has its own painting style. When the child gets older, he may have his own favorite sticker style, and he will move from "random stickers" to "designed stickers."
This is the same as when we were children and used to design patterns in diaries and play with diaries when we grow up. Maybe the child’s aesthetics is hidden in a small book of stickers. In the book!
So, the sticker book is really a treasure! Does your baby like stickers? Do you have any good sticker books? Please leave a message and remember to tell me!