Nursery rhyme "Upside Down Song" is not suitable for children: what minors read, parents should choose and guide

Parents and children are reading books. (Xinhua News Agency reporter Vientiane/photo)

Netizens posted the "American Painting Zhuyin Version" of Zhejiang Children's Publishing House's "Reading with Adults", listing one of the nursery rhymes called "Upside Down Song" that was popular in the north: eating milk, drinking bread, carrying a purse on the train, walking on the purse by himself, seeing the people behind him biting the dog, picking up the dog to hit the brick, and the brick bit my hand. Oops, oops, cut off the knife with your hand, use the knife as a pillow, a big turn, the head rolls down, thinking it's a watermelon, pick it up and eat it. Oops, my mom, my head is gone, hurry up and pick a gourd and put it on.~

Similar to traditional nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes, and "Little boy, sitting on the door pier, crying and shouting for a daughter-in-law, what do you want a daughter-in-law to do?" Light the lamp to talk, blow the lamp as a companion..." etc., there are many stocks, is this content suitable for children to read?

With the development of modern literature and art and the online world, are many literary and artistic works that have been released and viewed with huge views suitable for children and teenagers? What age is it for? Many people and even many parents have not studied it in depth.

According to the provisions of mainland law, there are two major categories of criteria for the identification of publications that are "inappropriate for children": First, it is obviously stimulating and sexy. Second, it obviously promotes brutality and brutality. From this criterion, whether the above examples can be considered "stimulating sexy, rough, and brutal" is a matter of opinion, but in any case, I personally think that they are really not suitable for children to read.

In addition to the hard-core standards of the law, we should also examine the issue of "children's works" from the aspects of society, education, children's psychology, adolescent growth, and the professional standards of literary and artistic creation.

"Children" are divided into toddlers, school-age children, teenagers and adolescents. Young children are children under the age of 6 (under 5 years old in the United Kingdom), school-age children refer to primary school students aged 6-12 years old, teenagers now refer to minors under 10-18 years old, and adolescents are sub-levels of juvenile subdivision, generally referring to 14-18 years old.

For children and teenagers at different stages, "children's works" should have different functions and characteristics.

Children's literary and artistic works should be functional, mainly for the visual sense of space, color, hearing pronunciation, listening, intellectual development of observation, comprehension, cognitive nature and other objective abilities of the cultivation, as well as love for parents, family and friendliness, sunshine extroversion, lively and flexible and other aspects of character development.

In addition to the function of auxiliary learning, literary and artistic works of school-age children should pay attention to cultivating children's humanity and social growth. These include law-abiding, self-aggrandizement, safety education, and more. During this period, we must gradually shape values, do not engage in very complicated, the most important thing is to establish the cognition of right, wrong, right and wrong, the evaluation standards of beauty and ugliness, and the valuable qualities of integrity, bravery, kindness, curiosity, and exploration.

Juvenile literary and artistic works should gradually focus on the guidance and assistance of the cultivation of value orientation, because this age group is an important stage in the formation of life outlook, values, and world outlook, and it is necessary to tell teenagers: the world is colorful and colorful, and the world is not always beautiful and simple.

"Children's works" are not to create a false and beautiful world, but to help teenagers grow up, to choose the right path and construct rational and scientific ideas in the face of a complex real world. At this time, "Aesop's Fables" is really a good reading, "Snake and Crab" tells us that "many acts of injustice will kill themselves", and evil will be punished, which has the significance of shocking education, rather than creating a sterile fairy tale world isolated from the real world.

Adolescent literary and artistic works, at this stage, adolescents in adolescence, not only have begun to contact the real society, but also have begun to notice the development of themselves and the opposite sex, called "the beginning of love", and this period is also a "period of adolescent rebellion", and the thoughts of teenagers are very fluctuating. At this time, they need to gradually transition and contact the culture and art of the adult world.

In this regard, the experience of some countries is that PG (PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED Some material may not be suitable for children) recommends viewing in the company of parents. R (RESTRICTED Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) Children under the age of 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to watch.

From the above analysis, we believe that "children's works" should have functional, aesthetic and mainstream values, and eventually smoothly integrate into the real society and become a nutrient for the growth of children and adolescents.

From this point of view, "upside down song" and "sitting on the door pier" and the like are only traditional cultural relics, which lack cultural taste, aesthetic taste, and have no meaningful value orientation, and when studying folklore in universities, they know that there was such a existence, which is really not suitable as "children's books".

And "Aesop's Fables" has to pick one: "The crow drinks water" is undoubtedly suitable for the early childhood stage, and "The Snake and the Crab" is more suitable for reading in the juvenile stage. In the same way, although Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Grimm's Fairy Tales are called fairy tales, their readers cover a wide range of ages, some suitable for the early childhood stage, some suitable for the school-age children's stage, some suitable for the juvenile stage, and some are used to construct the romantic dreams of teenagers.

The selection, control and use of these works are not only the responsibility of creators, publishers and schools, but also the responsibility of parents and guardians. If the parents let themselves go, then the children must grow wildly; if the parents are full of noise, then the children will have no books to read; if the parents will not guide, then the children will be more rebellious (a large part of the "rebellious psychology" of adolescents is to think: the parents are out, can not keep up with themselves).

Most of the problems in education are the quality of parents. We often find that the parents of children, lack of basic parenting ability, to the bookstore but do not know what kind of reading materials should be selected for the child, open the computer do not know what kind of teaching materials should be found for the child, and even hear parents say: Teacher, our children will be handed over to you, how much do you want to see?

However, education and guardianship responsibilities are not 100% solvable by "how much money", and family education is so important that it must not be made a shortcoming in education. In this regard, while reducing the burden on the school education of children and young people, we should really hold some parent training classes, at least so that parents can grasp: which works are "inappropriate for children"? Which works are beneficial for unwinding?

(This article is only the author's personal opinion and does not represent the position of this newspaper)

Mei Yijun