In the past, I always felt that "David, No" was an excellent picture book for young children. Since seeing a Weibo post by Sun Li, it has subverted my cognition. She said: "Her children like to graffiti on the wall, and she not only discourages them, but encourages them to doodle." Her husband, Deng Chao, is very supportive of this, believing that 'the walls can be repainted when they are dirty, and the child's inspiration will be erased and there will be no more'."
David loves to paint all sorts of pictures on the walls! At this time, the mother came over, stuck her waist, and said loudly to David, "David, no."
Looking back, how did you guide your child when she read this picture book to her? It seems to be in the form of a question, "You think David did that, right?" "What should he do?" Invisibly, the inertial thinking of adults has been transmitted to the child, making her feel that David is wrong to do this, and the right way is to "not graffiti". But is graffiti really bad?
Education experts once said: Every child is a natural artist. Children who like to graffiti tend to have higher imagination, thinking ability and expression ability than children of the same age, and they can use their imagination without any restrictions and get fun from it, so there may be more room for development in the field of art in the future.
Graffiti on the wall, graffiti on the ground, graffiti on clothes, graffiti on stones, graffiti on masks, graffiti on drawing boards, just different paths of graffiti, just different choices for adults to accept on their own. Maybe you think you're breaking the bill and need to renovate, maybe you're in trouble and need to clean up again, maybe you don't feel the need to have ready-made paper, and you take it for granted that some behavior is wrong. What is wrong is not graffiti, but your cognition, which is determined by the era and environment in which you live, as well as your outlook on life, values, and even your top-level design and level of needs.
Although reading picture books is a small thing, it can also cumulatively affect children's attitudes towards the world. Therefore, parents should not interpret the picture book too much, or stick to the educational significance of it, but should let the children understand it themselves, imagine it in the sky, and feel the fun in it.
Give the child a simple and beautiful world, that is the original appearance of the world, and it is also the way the world should be in the eyes of the child.