Do you believe in character theory? Do you agree with the influence of toys on children? If your answer to the above two questions is "Yes", please continue to read. The following discussion may enlighten you.
Some children's toy research experts pointed out that toys have a much greater impact on children than we thought!
Toys can promote children's action development, stimulate their curiosity and imagination, exercise their observation, memory, reasoning and other abilities, stimulate their understanding of beauty, and cultivate their good temperament. Toys not only affect the development of individual body, mind and personality, but also have a close relationship with children's interpersonal interaction, parent-child relationship and other social relations. It can be said that toys play an important role in developing a child's character.
Child psychologists believe that 3-6 years old is the formative period of a child's character. Basically, after 6 years old, a child's character will be shaped. Psychologists divide people's personalities into four types: sanguine, bilious, mucinous and depressive.
Here is a brief introduction to the four personality types and their typical shortcomings.
1. sanguine type (also known as active type, agile and active type)
Characteristics: lively, good at communication, quick in thinking, easy to accept new things, easy to produce emotions and feelings, easy to change and disappear.
Disadvantages: lack of concentration, sloppiness, and unstable mood.
2. Bile type (also called unstoppable type or fighting type)
Features: frank and enthusiastic, energetic, impulsive, grumpy, quick thinking but poor accuracy, emotional exposure, but not for long.
Disadvantages: irritable, high minded, easy to be frustrated and lose confidence.
3. Mucus type (also known as quiet type)
Features: steady, comprehensive, quiet, silent, good at controlling oneself, good at patience, not easy to expose emotions, stable attention, not easy to shift, few and slow external actions, like to determine things, good at doing things slowly and orderly.
Disadvantages: conservative and inflexible.
4. Depressive type (also known as inhibitory type)
Characteristics.
Disadvantages: slow reaction, timidity and isolation.
After knowing the four types of personality characteristics of the above people, parents can easily judge which type of personality their children belong to.
In the past, what factors would parents consider when choosing toys for their children? Price, sales, brand, and training children's ability in some aspects should be considered frequently. Then, after reviewing the above analysis and recognizing the impact of toys on children's character, would you consider choosing toys for children from another perspective?
If your child is a sanguine type, you can choose some toys to exercise the child's concentration and carefulness. Carefulness is different from patience, which reflects prudence. For example: Sudoku, dominoes, electric maze, looking for different toys.
If your child is bilious, you can choose some toys to exercise his patience and practical ability to overcome his impatience, high vision and low skill; For the disadvantage that children are easy to lose confidence, we can choose some challenging toys to let children overcome difficulties step by step, and take anti frustration exercise in overcoming difficulties, so as to finally achieve success and gain confidence. For example: large jigsaw puzzle toys, STEM building block toys, etc.
If your child is mucous type, you can choose some toys to exercise imagination, or some toys that need flexibility in thinking. For example, Huarong Road, Kongming Lock, maze toys, building blocks, etc.
If your child is depressed, you can choose some toys that need quick response, acousto-optic toys, or toys that are challenging and exciting. Such as various toy guns, remote control cars, etc.
Finally, it needs to be emphasized that we should not exaggerate the role of toys on children. There are too many factors that affect the formation of children's character, but we can try our best to balance children's character through toys to make children's character more perfect.