Lu You said: "The affairs of the world are often achieved by being diligent and thrifty and losing to extravagance."
Diligence and thrift are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, thrift and thrift is the rational distribution of property, and thrift is to cherish the fruits of labor and respect for the creators of labor.
The ancients regarded thrift and thrift as the beauty, and believed that the life of thrift and thrift was the most comfortable life. However, with the continuous improvement of living standards, some children live in a superior family environment, have not experienced the hardships of labor, and do not know how to cherish the fruits of labor. They wear and use the best, and throw away the slightly older ones; Eat half the food, drink half the drink, and throw it in the trash. These bad habits not only cause serious waste, but also are very detrimental to the healthy growth of children.
American psychologist William James said: "Sow an action, harvest a habit; Sow a habit, harvest a character; Sow a character, harvest a destiny. "The habits developed from an early age will accompany people throughout their lives, and parents guide their children to develop the good qualities of thrift and thrift, which will benefit him for life and become an inexhaustible wealth hidden in his heart."
Ancients Cloud: Diligence can make up for clumsiness, thrift to cultivate honesty. As long as a person is diligent, even if the talent is poor, he will do a good job in studying and working, and will make achievements in his career. As long as a person is frugal, does not blindly pursue material enjoyment, does not pursue a luxurious life, and maintains the virtue of integrity, he will continue to make progress and achieve something in his career. Diligence and thrift can cultivate a person's strong will and indomitable spirit to overcome difficulties, which is a great wealth in life. It is precisely with the spirit of diligence and frugality that Li Ka-shing laid a solid foundation for his career and built today's glory.
First, the current situation of children's thrift and thrift
Nowadays, many children have almost no concept of thrift and thrift in their minds, they do not know how to live within their means, and they do not know how to make the best use of things, and waste can be seen everywhere. Some children for meals, snacks, as long as they feel that it is not delicious, they will throw away and dump at will. Some children do not turn off the lights, turn off the computer, turn off the faucet. Some children like beautiful, high-end stationery boxes, often the stationery boxes are still good and are discarded, and the homework books that use few pages are often thrown away. Some children spend a lot of money and often buy things they don't need... The undercurrents formed by various phenomena are quietly changing children's values, outlook on life and morality. This cannot but make parents feel deeply worried.
Second, the reason why children lack the awareness of thrift and thrift
1. The child's own characteristics make him extremely vulnerable to the influence of bad social atmosphere
With the continuous development of the economy, people's living standards are improving day by day, and then there are also comparisons, luxuries, hedonistic consumption methods and lifestyles, which have a strong "demonstration" and inducement effect on children. Children have insufficient life experience, their thinking is not yet mature, their ability to distinguish between right and wrong, distinguish between good and bad, etc., lack of independent judgment ability, and self-control is still relatively weak.
At the same time, they have a strong curiosity and ability to imitate, which makes them extremely vulnerable to the erosion of various unhealthy trends, the pursuit of pleasure and comfort in life, and the lack of hard work and hard-working spirit.
2. Excessive coddling of parents
Many families today are made up of three generations of grandparents, parents, and children, and the children become the core of the family, and all the activities of the family are centered on the children. Many parents believe that the main task of children is to learn, as long as they study well, parents will do their best to meet their children's various wishes. Some parents think that they have had enough hard days when they were young, and now that their living standards have improved, they hope that their children will no longer suffer, and they would rather save money and suffer hardships, but also let their children eat well, dress well, use well, and play well.
Children who are overly cared for will think that life is like this, and the money earned by parents is spent for themselves, regardless of the family's economic affordability, and they do not know how to understand their parents. The pampering and doting of parents make children develop a selfish, willful, arrogant personality. From an early age, the life of pampering and pampering children does not understand the hardships and difficulties of life at all, and does not know how to cherish, resulting in the lack of awareness of thrift and thrift.
3. Lack of education on family diligence and thrift
Many parents themselves do not attach importance to thrift and thrift, and do not set a good example for their children. Around us, there is no shortage of generous fathers and mothers who dump meals and throw away items, and their behavior is naturally impossible for children to understand what is frugality and what is "hard work".
Some parents often do not pay attention to the details of life, can not do love for goods, a water multi-purpose, people go out of the lights. If parents are extravagant and wasteful, how can children really understand the principle of frugality everywhere? In addition, many children are like "little princesses" and "little emperors" at home, never doing any housework, so that they have no personal experience of "hard work", which is also an important reason for the lack of thrift and thrift awareness of children.
Third, the harm of children's lack of awareness of thrift and thrift
1. Promote children's vanity and extravagant wasteful habits
If a child learns to enjoy life prematurely, pursues comfort and ease in life, and develops bad habits such as greed, comparison, and love of the new and the old, he will not understand the difficulty of his parents' earning money. When he puts too much energy into the happiness brought by material things, the goals and tastes of life will gradually degenerate, thus ignoring higher spiritual pursuits, it is difficult to love labor and study hard, there is a lack of sympathy and understanding for others, and there is no love for the fruits of labor and public goods. Excessive vanity and a profligate lifestyle are not conducive to the healthy development of children's physical and mental health.
2. Increase the economic and mental burden on the family
Some children do not consider the current situation of the family, blindly covet enjoyment, compare their hearts, eat, wear, live, and use to look at others, blindly catch up with the fashion, and want "face". They spend money and abuse it when they have money, miserable when they don't have money, and their lives are unplanned. In order to meet their various needs, they frequently ask parents for money, increasing the financial burden and mental pressure of parents, and the result is to satisfy themselves and suffer the family.
3. It is easy to cause children to commit illegal and criminal acts
A lifestyle of extravagance and waste and covetous pleasure will make children lose the spirit of hard-working and stand hard work, and once setbacks and adversities strike, they will be overwhelmed. Some children are usually extravagant, their desires are inflated, and once the economic situation is difficult to meet their requirements, in order to pursue a luxurious life, he will do whatever it takes, even at the expense of taking the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.
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