What is parent-child movement? It is not a very professional concept, but it literally means sports or activities that parents and children do together.
Perhaps the more common words are parent-child games, parent-child activities, parent-child interaction or parent-child relations, but these are either too restrictive or too abstract. Now let's discuss the category of parent-child sports.
Nowadays, as parents, we must often see many people taking their children to participate in early education courses. A very important point emphasized in the early education courses is how to provide high-quality parental companionship and encourage parents to actively play with their children in the limited time. This is very reasonable, because love and trust that run through a child's life are generated in the process of game interaction in childhood.
However, parent-child sports should also follow the principle of physical and mental development of infants and young children. Only in this way can the goal of strengthening the body and brain be achieved while avoiding "pulling out the seedlings to encourage them".
Then, after the child has independent sports ability, isn't it important for the father and mother to accompany him?
No, just now we said that high-quality companionship is very important in infancy, early childhood and even childhood.
Since the rapid development of science and technology to explore human brain activity, psychological researchers always like to verify whether certain external intervention conditions really have effects through changes in human brain structure.
Recently, German researchers have used the technique of irradiating the brain with near-infrared light to verify why the "parent-child relationship" is so important to humans. They recorded the brain changes of children and parents at the same time during the actual parent-child activities.
The results show that when parents and children cooperate to complete activities, there is a significant synchronous change in their brain activity in the frontal lobe, that is, our forehead. The frontal lobe of the brain, that is, the forehead, is responsible for our higher cognitive functions, such as emotion and thinking. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "people with large forehead are smart." this has a certain scientific truth.
The frontal lobes of parents and children are activated at the same time, which indicates that parent-child activities are very clear in establishing emotional and thinking links between parents and children. This is related to the development of children's adaptive emotional regulation. In short, when children face changes and challenges from the outside world, they can feel the support of their parents behind them. This support, if improved, is the love, trust and security that children get.
Therefore, both the results of behavioral research and the data of brain neuroscience show that parent-child activities and parent-child movements need to run through human infants and children with high quality.