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Let the child win at the starting line, this sentence may be the most familiar sentence for us as parents.
But where is this so-called starting line?
Is it the beginning of elementary school? Or kindergarten to start?
The answer now is that babies who have just been born a few months have been "put" on the starting line.
In recent years, among all the parents, the novelty of "corrective helmet" has continued to become popular.
The so-called corrective helmet can limit the direction of growth of the skull, with the purpose of influencing the shape of the baby's head, so as to achieve the effect of correction. To use a figurative metaphor, it is like making a "square watermelon".
A wide variety of orthopedic helmets
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In order to achieve the purpose of "correction", it takes 23 hours a day to wear a huge helmet for babies who are only a few months old, especially when sleeping.
Adults can feel uncomfortable wearing a helmet 23 hours a day, let alone babies.
Parents share their children's experiences wearing helmets
Some people may say, since the child is so uncomfortable, why should he wear such a thing?
Of course to win at the so-called starting line.
The ultimate goal of head shape correction: round head
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If you search on a platform with keywords such as "round head" and "head shape", you will find that parents have been more or less trapped by head shape anxiety under the ears of others:
Experience sharing about round heads on a platform
Where there is demand, there is naturally a market. Parents are so concerned about their children's head shape, "intimate merchants" naturally have shot.
Nowadays, the major businesses on the Internet have advertised: wearing orthopedic helmets has a magical effect, which can make the baby get the "perfect head shape" and let the baby "win on the starting line".
At the same time, it is mentioned in the promotion of the merchant: "The helmet cannot be mass-produced, but is privately customized according to the head shape of different babies." When customizing the helmet, the staff will first wrap the baby's head with a mesh fabric to make the shape of the head more clearly visible, and then use a 3D scanner to collect data, measure and evaluate. ”
Such a tall service is naturally not cheap, a set of orthopedic helmets domestically needs thousands of yuan, and some so-called imported brands ask for tens of thousands of dollars.
Picture of "3D scanning measurement of a baby's head" circulating online
For the average family, thousands or even tens of thousands of pieces are not a small amount, so why is there still such a broad market for such expensive orthopedic helmets?
In the final analysis, we are still too anxious or even overcorrected on the issue of parenting.
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In the past, people had fewer channels to obtain information and fewer sources of anxiety for parents; and now, thanks to the Internet, parents can always see the most beautiful side of other people's children on social platforms, thus exacerbating the phenomenon of chicken babies; at this time, if coupled with the anxiety of business sales, and the temptation of "let children win on the starting line", parents are naturally breaking their defenses, and they do not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars for their children.
In the past, it may have been to learn piano, learn English, learn Olympic numbers, but now, it has become an orthopedic helmet.
What early childhood education means for human beings is still not entirely clear to us. But one thing is certain, a child's homeschooling affects a person's life.
Whether it is the proverbial phrase "three years old looks big, seven years old looks old" or Tolstoy said that "from birth to the age of 5, the child takes in many times more from the world around him in terms of wisdom, emotion, will and character than he does after he is 5 years old". All of these explain the importance of family education, but also explain the significance of family education for children's early childhood.
Sukhomlinsky also said that human character, thinking, and language are formed in preschool and early school age. Before children enter primary school, their cognitive styles, behavioral habits, emotional attitudes, etc., have been initially formed. The school only plays a role in transforming and further correcting, further helping children to grow.
Childhood, therefore, is not a period of preparation for future life, but a real, unique, glorious, and irreproductible life. What kind of person a child will become in the future is determined by his childhood. Whether a child's future life can be happy or not, the starting point is in his childhood.
"Perfect Day" inside page Danny Parker
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The older generation pays attention to the beauty of flat heads, and there are practices of sleeping books for babies and deliberately letting babies sleep out of "flat heads".
The older generation's concept has been rejected by many young people, but ironically, today's parents use helmets to customize the "round head", why not do the same thing to their children?
Further, if the aesthetic orientation changes again in the future, will we have to sleep books for small babies?
Now, it is not that there is a lack of emphasis on the importance of childhood, but it is emphasized too many times, and parents are overly nervous. So, first of all, it is recommended that parents relax and maintain a peaceful state of mind.
When we don't have the ability to do more, what we can do is to ensure the most basic supply, so that children are at least a little healthier, a little freer, a little happier, and a little more innocent.
Part of the text of this article comes from the monthly magazine "Meng" 2020 Issue 6 "Big Coffee Says"