Masaru Ibuka On Early Childhood Development

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“From my point of view, the main goal of early development is to prevent unhappy children. The child is given good music to listen to and is not taught to play the violin in order to grow out of him an outstanding musician. He is taught a foreign language not to bring up a brilliant linguist, and not even to prepare him for a "good" kindergarten and elementary school. The main thing is to develop in the child his limitless potential, so that there will be more joy in his life and in the world."

(c) Masaru Ibuka

Masaru Ibuka is a great talented engineer, one of the founders of the Sony Corporation, as well as the organizer and leader of the current Early Development Association, which is widely known for its methods.

Kids brought up in the Ibuki style are wonderful at drawing, dancing, counting, reading, swimming, fluent in foreign languages, playing and even composing symphonic music. At the same time, which is very important, these children are also perfectly socialized and adapted.

The widely known book by Masaru Ibuki "It's too late after three"

This is the same motto, credo, slogan, which is guided in the Ibuki School.

Interesting motto, isn't it?

"After three it's too late": we listen and remember

• No child is born a genius, and not one is a fool. It all depends on the stimulation and the degree brain development in the decisive years of a child's life.
• If you do not lay a solid foundation from the very beginning, then it is useless to try to build a solid building: even if it is beautiful on the outside, it will still fall to pieces from a strong wind or an earthquake. Development from the earliest years, and even months, this is such foundation … It needs to be made strong from the very beginning, because it is impossible to start building the foundation when the building is ready.
• The eyes or nose are inherited by your child and the expression on his face - this is the mirror that reflects the relationship in the family.
• Toddler development often boils down to stuffing a child with information or teaching to read and write at an early age. But more importantly - uh then develop the ability to reason, evaluate, perceive. There are no special programs for this, and only how the parents behave, what they do and feel, how they talk with the baby, can shape the personality of the child.
• If the parents get sick, they will, of course, do everything to avoid infecting their child, for example, not holding him too close in their arms or putting on a gauze bandage. But for some reason, not all of us are concerned about not passing on our not very good qualities to our children.

Let's educate our children by our own example

Masaru Ibuka's advice

Masaru Ibuka did not invent new educational games and toys, like many other methodologists, but he gave a lot of very useful advice.

1. Learn verses by heart. The child's brain is able to retain in memory from 100 to 200 short poems. The more intensively the memory is used, the better it functions and develops. The child's memorization skills need to be trained while he finds pleasure in repetition. There are cases when two-year-old toddlers recited all Chukovsky by heart, while their peers could not remember the quatrain about crying Tanya.

2. Take the baby in your arms. Communication, physical contact with parents affects not only the intelligence of the baby, but also forms a responsive, receptive person. And in general - there cannot be too much communication, interaction with parents. A newborn cannot be pampered with joint sleep and affection.

3. Diversify your activities. It is more useful for a child to try his hand at a variety of activities, with as wide a range of subjects as possible, than to focus on one thing. On the other hand, if he excels in one area, it will give him confidence and he will be more successful in other pursuits.

4. Give your child pencils as early as possible. Everything that the kid does with his hands - draws, scatters toys, tears colored paper - develops his intellect and creative inclinations. The sooner you give your child the pencils, the better the results will be. But if at the same time you stop him every minute (“Hold your pencil correctly!”, “The apples must be red”), you will interfere with the development of his creative abilities.

5. Train your left hand in the same way as your right. Note that monkeys are free to use both hands for eating and playing. Man is less perfect in this respect …

6. Don't buy too many toys for your baby. An excess of toys distracts the child's attention. If you want to develop imagination, out-of-the-box thinking and ingenuity in your baby, don't buy him everything he asks for. In the kid's imagination, a piece of wood or a teapot lid can be transformed into a fairy house or a ship - this is much more interesting than an expensive toy from a store that can be used for one purpose. When there are too many toys around the child, it overwhelms him and it is difficult for him to concentrate on one thing. The child plays best with one toy, coming up with a variety of games with it. Ready-made toys are rarely liked by children, since they have little to do with the world around them. It is better if the child makes himself a toy.

7. Move more. Walking stimulates the thought process and is a great brain exercise. It is not for nothing that many talented people say that while walking, new ideas come to mind and inspiration reappears.

And here's what else the great Masaru Ibuka said and bequeathed)

• Before raising children, you must first raise parents

• Children benefit from walking. Of the 639 muscles in our body, 400 are involved in walking. It is no coincidence that many writers say that when their work gets stuck, they take a walk, during which new ideas emerge. In all likelihood, walking stimulates the thought process.

• Sculpting, cutting paper designs and folding paper figures develops the creative inclinations of the child. A child who began to sculpt at an early age is significantly ahead of his fellows in mastering various skills. And the point here is not that he started to practice modeling earlier, but that modeling early awakened his intellectual and creative inclinations. Sleight of hand and self-expression are the first, but far from the only qualities that a child acquires through sculpting. The kid with curiosity studies the objects around him and especially reacts to those that give him “the joy of achievement” and satisfy his need for creativity.

• When a child is given a standard piece of paper, they are immediately deprived of any choice. A child sees a vast world (much larger than parents can imagine) when he first picks up a pencil and discovers that he can leave marks on blank paper. This vast world is much more than a standard piece of paper. I would give the child a huge sheet of paper to crawl over it, drawing.