HELP YOUR TODDLER CONCENTRATE IN 10 SIMPLE STEPS! | Montessori At Home
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Looking for how to help your toddler concentrate on their activities? Are you hoping to increase the time your toddler spends engaging with materials in a meaningful way? Increasing concentration in your toddler with these 10 simple but effective way. Whether you are choosing to implement Montessori at Home, or any other approach (Reggio, Waldorf, mixed...), you can use these tips to help your toddler be more concentrated and focused while playing.
If your toddler is not touching any toys on their latest shelf rotation or you have a toddler that runs around instead of focusing on one task, you'll find this video helpful. You may be surprised to know that toddlers can indeed focus quite well...if it is a task they're interested in. In this video, we will discuss tips on how we can help our little humans navigate their interests along with developmentally appropriate activities we present, all while maintaining increased focus and concentration.
Remember that our toddlers are still very young and developing their impulse control. Their concentration spans may not be very long nor very frequent, and that is perfectly fine as well! Help your child concentrate in the way that benefits his or her development the best at that moment. Remember to step back and evaluate periodically. And always...follow the child!
Same disclaimer as in the video-Stella IS typically developing and not all of these may work for neurodivergent children. However, you may be able to select whichever tips do align with your child's unique developmental needs.
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What a great observation about your child. It proves again Maria Montessori's quote: " Help me to do it alone ".
Absolutely!!! They are so eager to figure out how to do a lot on their own at once 🥰
This is great timing again i think i asked a Montessori blog page about this topic for the age when thete is so much going on around the child that interests them including thirst own bodies and capabilities that it can be difficult to focus so thank you
Awwh i like that sponge transfer activity in water.
I agree with the times of the day when she focuses on activities with an aim and process .i.e. shelf work or prepared activities.
I always bring out one of the balacing activities now when it is too cold and wet outside.
She's actually become aware of the area i have pilled up creative resources hahaha.
I also noticed that because we have done Montessori earlier on she kind of expects that there is a specific task to do with new materials so she attempts to figure it out now without a lesson so now if she wants me to guide or show her give her a tip she says ami! Or brings my hand to the activity.
Interruption is a difficult thing to avoid sometimes when i think i am helping her attain descriptive vocabulary but it can be distracting. Thats the balance i meed to find or just stop using activities to also attain language it maybe isn't the place until she starts to interact with me. But i have noticed shes wanting me to say something now when holding multiple items in one hand or feeling something unique in texture so i can give her the words for it. I just need to maybe ease off on that.
I think you probably talked about it before but the most concentration i have seen is during practical life tasks real work not just practicing the skill but actually when it is needed to be done. Dr Montessori noted tjis about toddlers gravitating more towards real work with a real outcome and real responsibility not just busy work. I think Huda can distinguish when we are just practicing a skill versus actually using what was learned.
Stella has figured out where the art supplies and out of rotation materials are and it is definitely and adventure navigating that 🥴 She's decided that the paper in the printer is also her art paper 🤣
If Huda is looking for a word to describe a texture or action, it's great to be providing that like you have been doing! You'll often hear the guides in the Montessori class saying single words during these kind of activities in their presentation - rough, smooth, open, close...there is DEFINITELY a time for it! But I hear you-it is so easy to get carried away and try to describe everything to them when all they may have needed is that one word! 😅
Stella has also definitely started to look for meaning or at least a challenge in every task. After pouring from pitcher to pitcher a few times, she tried pouring onto the tray, then the table...then took the sponge to wash the table. She found her purpose! 😅 Absolutely agree that the full practical life activity is definitely more intriguing to them! Earlier today I was organizing our storage containers and Stella started taking everything off her shelf and scrubbing it with her brush! She was organizing and cleaning just like me! But letting them master those isolated skills definitely makes the full activity more enjoyable too-it's a beautiful full circle!
I definitely needed this!! I notice if I sit and am fully immersed with Zander he will concentrate longer, but by himself it definitely depends on the activity. That’s interesting about the work cycle though I never thought of that!
I ended up thinking of that as a means of survival tbh 🙃 I needed to know when Stella was most engaged with her activities even as a little baby so I could have time to pump, wash bottles AND eat at least once 🤣🙈 Ended up carrying that over into her toddler years
@@MariaandMontessori well it’s definitely worked!! Well done mama!
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Great information! Thanks.
I'm glad it was helpful!! 🥰
Thanks!
Amazing video and so helpful! Thank you! I would really apprecite your answer and help. My toddler ( he is 25 months old) always speaks or sings while doing the activities and I really don't know how to help him concentrate. Do you have some advice?
Is he still doing the activities? 0-6 is the sensitive period for language, and especially at the age you're at now, they're BURSTING to speak. We can model speaking softly, but there's not necessarily a need at 25 months for them to work in silence. My daughter did the same and still narrates her play or speaks aloud/sings when she does pretend play. That's normal! She knows to work in silence when it's time for the work cycle in her Montessori class though, unless she's working with a friend 🙂
Thank you so much for the reply and I will deffinitely keep that in mind! Do you have any idea how I can explain to him to be a lit bit quiet when we have our work cycle? Thank you! 😊
Thanks!
🤗 thank YOU!