Undiksha shares that batch 2 is back with interesting topics. Some of the topics chosen by the resource person are an in-depth look at the material that was presented in batch 1. One of the topics that still exists because since the Covid-19 pandemic parents have become more attentive to their children is about how to stimulate their children’s brains at an early age. The topic entitled “Neuroscience-Based Child Stimulation” was presented by Dr. Putu Aditya Antara, S.Pd., M.Pd. Aditya said that the topic he presented was a PG PAUD study program course about neuroscience in learning.
According to him, parents and teachers must know the characteristics of the brain in early childhood. If you don’t know this, you will encounter many problems, especially in terms of stimulation which is likely to fail. The stimulation in question is how to make the brain in early childhood have lots of tissue. The importance of this stimulation is to help stimulate the child’s brain so that it can increase their intelligence. “Sometimes there is a stigma that says that in a family where the parents are not smart, this will have an impact on the children. There is some truth to this stigma because there is no stimulation of children’s brains and how they are raised at home, for example, parents often commit violence against children, so children like this will find it difficult to develop when learning at school, their memory and analytical power are weak. “Seeing this, one of our studies is neuroscience,” explained Aditya.
At the beginning of the slide, Deputy Dean 3 of FIP displays an image in which 8 facial images are hidden. Viewers are asked to find the eight hidden face images. It turns out that it is not easy to find these eight faces and this is one technique for assessing the workings of our brain. How important the role of the brain is for humans because everything comes from the brain. Even in Bali, the brain is called the king of the indriyas. From the explanation, it should be known that the first thing that forms in the fetus are brain cells, not heart cells. After 16 days of fertilization, brain cells have formed, 1 month later the brain has begun to form completely. The pulse that appears is a pulse from moving tissue. Meanwhile, the heart and other organs only form 1 month later.
Then how to approach stimulation in early childhood, namely by playing. Playing accelerates the process of brain maturity. A good network of brain cells is a brain rich in connections, thanks to the stimulation of activity in children who are raised with happiness. The brain levels consist of the lower, middle, and upper brain. What is characteristic of the human brain is the upper brain. There are 2 brain hemispheres in humans, namely the right brain and the left brain. The left brain is related to numbers, memory, grammar, logic, and ratios. Meanwhile, the right brain is related to creativity, musical rhythm, color, imagination, and daydreaming.
Likewise, the brain function of the PG PAUD study program lecturer differentiates brain function based on gender. Boys’ brains have different functions from girls’ brains, so don’t confuse boys and girls. Boys tend to experience dyslexia more easily, more easily experience ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) because their levels of oxytocin or the love hormone are low. Boys get stressed more easily than girls. Boys generally do better in mathematics 4 years earlier than girls. Boys’ tear holes are narrower than girls’, so this causes girls to cry more often than boys.
Factors that influence brain development are nutrition, literalization, genetics, and stimulation. How to stimulate fetal brain development? Because brain tissue is formed in the womb, a husband must protect his wife from stress. In Bali, husbands usually do not cut their hair when their wives are pregnant. Then increase omega 3. The intake that the brain needs is vegetables, fruit, water, protein, drinks, oxygen, and carbohydrates.
Aditya offers a visual stimulation model by giving children colorful pictures so they can remember easily. The pictures provided also contain patterns so that children think. For example, a picture of the cycle of butterfly formation. After the visual stimulation model, there is also an auditory stimulation model, namely storytelling and singing. Singing is not just singing but also following movements, so encourage children to sing while imitating the movements, play roles, and play puzzles. Taking references from Drs. I Gde Nala Antara, M.Hum, and Aditya said that even when eating, children must receive stimulation of their five senses. Foods with various flavors stimulate the sense of taste, various colors stimulate the sense of sight, various aromas stimulate the sense of smell, using your hands stimulates the sense of touch, and even chewing crackers stimulate our hearing. Apart from that, there is also mind mapping, yoga, and meditation.
