Hello editor!
I am the mother of a 6-year-old chess boy, and I am writing to you today to say something about my confusion. Because I feel that when my son learns chess, I don't know what to do more and more.
My son is now 6 years old, from the age of 4 began to learn Go, the hardships in the middle of a sentence or two is difficult to say clearly, every time I see my son participate in the examination competition, every time I see a dense list of candidates hanging outside the examination room, I think of a few who can successfully advance every time, my mood is particularly anxious and helpless.
There are some children around me who are no longer in school, who are thinking about playing chess and will become chess players in the future.
I really don't have this confidence, I don't know if other parents have the same feelings as me, anyway, many parents around me have a topic together: we adults and children have paid so much time, energy and money, where is the return? Is it worth it for children to spend so much time after school, almost all of them are spent on learning chess? Children are small, just like to learn, but as a parent, can not help but plan for the long term?
Now, just accompanying my child to Go class, doing Go homework, and watching Go CDs, I, an adult, can't eat it, let alone a 6-year-old child? I want to cry when I think about it.
Now, which child is not participating in a Math, English study class, my son has no time to learn, you said that if the beginning of the primary school, people ask my son for a certificate, what can I do? I also heard that if you learn chess really well and get good grades, you will have extra points to take care of in the future entrance examinations. Is this really true?
In short, the more my son likes to play chess, the more entangled I am as a mother. Editor teacher, you say, is there a way out for a chess boy like my son? Can parents of chess children like me be assured that their children will learn Go? Ask for advice! Thank you!
- Tangled chess child mother
What is the real way out of learning chess?
At the door of a community in Panjiayuan, the reporter met Ms. Wang, the mother of 6-year-old Chess Boy Wenwen.
Looking back on the experience of more than two years, Wenwen's mother said with emotion: "My son really likes to play chess, of course, as a parent, I want to support, but now it is really more and more confused, this chess is really good, where is the way out?" The next is not good, the study is also delayed, is there still a way out?
If you can't learn Go, you can't get a corresponding certificate (such as an amateur 6-dan certificate), but because learning Go occupies the learning time of other 'popular' subjects, the last two ends are not fished, which is the most painful and worrying thing for almost all parents of chess children. ”
Children learn chess for 2 years
Wenwen's mother, Ms. Wang Huanqi, said that when Wenwen was 4 years old and went to the kindergarten class, once his grandmother took him home and brought back a Go class enrollment advertisement, considering that Wenwen liked to use his brain games since he was a child, the kindergarten had more time after class, plus the cost was not high to sign him up, and he began to learn Go.
Go twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, once for two hours, 400 yuan per month. After studying for half a year, in the summer, the teacher ran a training class, 120 yuan a day, a total of five days, and then participated in the examination competition, from amateur 15 to amateur 10. After that, I studied for another year and a half, and participated in two examination competitions in the middle, from amateur level 10 to amateur level 5.
When the child was 6 years old, Wenwen changed to The Go School in Haidian twice a week, 2 and a half hours on Wednesday night, 3 and a half hours on Sunday afternoon, a week added up to a total of 6 hours, 24 hours a month 420 yuan. Since entering this class, the child has made more obvious progress, and has participated in four examination competitions in the middle, from amateur level 5 to amateur beginner.
The teacher said: "If the child is not talented, hurry up and transform"
Teacher Zhang Yizhou of Haidian Chess Academy has a wealth of experience in cultivating children's Go, and when the reporter finished Ms. Wang's confusion, Teacher Zhang Yizhou affirmed: "This is a problem that many parents have had. ”
Teacher Zhang Yizhou said very sincerely: "We ask the teacher to talk about the first lesson is that parents should correctly treat the matter of their children learning chess, we must consider the long-term development of the child, and must not rush to achieve short-term profits." Specifically, it is a sentence, we must clearly see the child's ability to play chess. If the child does have potential and the examination results are outstanding, parents and children can choose to go to the punch section and take the path of professional chess players. If not, hurry up and transform, change your thinking, and do what to do. ”
In the process of visiting several Go classes, the reporter saw that outside the Go class, dozens of parents waited for three or four hours, chatting, reading, and sleeping on their stomachs.
Listening to parents' feedback, sometimes adults and children come home at night as if they are scattered. From the time the child starts to learn chess to play to a certain level, there are not tens of thousands of yuan that cannot be played, which still belongs to the nature of "amateur play tickets".
With so much time, effort and money, what can be rewarded if the child does not achieve the desired results? Some parents went to ask the teacher, and the teacher asked: "Go is so elegant, why do you think of so many utilitarian things?" ”
Parent testimonial: "Teaching chess is a road, but I don't want my child to go"
At present, more children take the amateur Go path, use their spare time to learn Go, and play amateur level and amateur section.
Bao Songqi, a parent of chess children, saw the reporter and "poured bitter water": "My son likes Go, but he does not know whether he can take a professional road in the future, and none of us dare to take that risk." But what is the way out of amateur Go, not to mention how difficult it is to play amateur 5 and 6 dan, even if it is played with all kinds of hardships, what can it do? In Mr. Bao's view, there is only one way out, to be a Go teacher and teach people to play chess.
The views of Jia Tingting, the parent of the chess children, confirmed what Mr. Bread said before: "Now the vast majority of teachers who learn chess children are amateur 5 dan, and there is almost no higher." Isn't that a good example? Therefore, I don't want my children to teach chess in the future. ”
Ms. Dou, another parent of chess children, said: "It is more difficult for children who generally learn to go up after amateur 3 paragraphs, some children can't get promoted to amateur 4 stages for one or two consecutive years, many children have given up, even if they are lucky enough to rush to 4 paragraphs, or even 5 paragraphs, but 6 paragraphs are kaner, especially amateur 5 paragraphs to play amateur 6 paragraphs, the difficulty is almost one of the thousands." ”
Parents are confused: "Not fishing at both ends is the biggest worry"
Many schools have such a saying, primary school graduation = the end of playing chess. Why?
Fang Tianfeng, the leader of the Go teaching science experimental class, told reporters that when the child reads primary school, the spare time is more sufficient, and when he enters the junior high school, the homework is suddenly more, and it is basically impossible to retake the exam section, and the general parents no longer let their children continue to learn Go, so there are very few chess children above the 5th grade.
Fang Tianfeng, who once won the national Go individual championship, is a professional eight-dan, and when talking about whether learning Go well will help children in future entrance examinations, Fang Tianfeng told reporters that a few years ago, the Beijing Education Commission had documents saying that chess could be regarded as a bonus project, but now it is canceled.
During the interview, Ms. Wang repeatedly mentioned her confusion. She said: "You said that if at the beginning of the xiaosheng, people asked my son for a certificate, we couldn't get anything, and told people that we have been learning Go, playing 3 dan, rushing 4 dan, maybe in the future to play 5 dan, 6 dan, people can agree, definitely bang aside." ”
Jia Tingting, the parent of the chess child, said a sentence that the reporter still remembers vividly: "Sometimes I watch my son happily run to the Go classroom, I am thinking, son, in the future, my mother will not let you learn Go again, you don't blame your mother!" ”
It is not easy for children to learn chess, and the confusion of parents of different ages is different. Like the child of Ms. Wang, the mother of a chess child, who has been learning chess for more than 2 years, her confusion belongs to the "entry level", and in the words of the parents of a Chong Duan teenager (the chess age is about 10 years): "This has just begun..." Then, what is the "higher level of confusion"?
Are you happy playing chess?
Whether it is Go, Chinese chess or chess, it is a good way and means to exercise thinking, but in the current boom in learning chess, there are many problems and misunderstandings, many parents blindly follow the trend, and children have to drop out of school if they want to rush to the section. Learning chess is so utilitarian, where is the joy of playing chess?
Zhang Yizhou, president of the Haidian Chess Academy, told reporters that in recent years, it is obvious that fewer and fewer children can learn chess in Beijing. Dean Zhang further explained that many people learn chess in the primary school stage, but those who really want to take a career path by playing chess are basically children from other places. Beijing children first can't eat this suffering, and second, they have more choices.
Yu Zimo learned chess for 10 years, Yu's father told reporters: "Parents and children have a stick to it and there will be no play." As a parent, there must be one who resigns. This is indeed the case, especially for parents from other places who accompany their children to Beijing, only to quit their jobs and take their children to rent a house near the China Chess Academy. Such a difficult journey to learn chess, coupled with hundreds of thousands of yuan in tuition fees, in a sense, is like a gamble for parents and children.
Chen Zude, former president of the China Chess Academy, once said: "It is good to want to be a professional chess player, but it is necessary to go with the flow, and do not let everyone learn chess in order to be a professional chess player." The most important thing in learning chess is to be happy, but also to improve their own quality and develop in an all-round way. Don't give up on cultural learning early, because you need culture for everything you do. ”
Today, in China, learning chess and learning cannot be taken into account, and what should children who are crowded with thousands of troops and horses crowd the "one-wood bridge" and "fall down"? How will these "smart kids" go to society in the future?
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