OK Mom says:
Have you all been able to go home this year? The epidemic in Hangzhou suddenly rose again, and several small partners could not go back.
Friend Esther said that after his son heard the news that he would not return to his hometown, the whole person fell asleep. In fact, the son is very, very much looking forward to returning to his hometown every year, because the countryside is too interesting, and this time he can't go back to travel, and the "blow" is too big.
It turns out that the big countryside that has nothing in the eyes of adults is the big paradise in the eyes of children. Listening to Esthe talk about the experience of taking the baby to the countryside, I was also deeply touched, so I shared it with you today.
In the matter of where to take our children to play, maybe we can really change our minds.
Text: Esther
Before taking the children back to my husband's hometown in the north, I was a little uneasy, worried that they would not get used to it.
Because I myself was very "impacted" when I first went to my husband's hometown, as a southerner, I was a bit uncomfortable. Dry yellow soil and equally dry air, each family is a large bungalow with a yard, cornfield, earth kang... It was as if I had come to the world in Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" book.
For adults, these few days of kissing can be regarded as feeling the cultural differences between the north and the south, but the most practical thing for children is "what to play?" ”。 What can they play on that kind of loess slope? I don't know, so I'm afraid.
However, on the first day I arrived, I found that I was really worried about it.
1. The countryside is actually a large "Montessori classroom"
When the children arrived at their in-laws' house, they immediately became interested in a large piece of corn outside the door.
"I'm going to dig corn," my son shouted. Before we could put our luggage down, they rushed over excitedly to play like rats falling into a rice jar.
Although the corn was dried as livestock feed, they indulged in it.
With the corn "opening the situation", the babies began to be interested in everything here. From the corner of the yard, they found all kinds of tools used by adults, shovels, shovels, buckets, dump trucks... Originally, they were all real guys doing farm work, but in their hands they all became playable "big toys", and playing with it was called a big deal.
Rural facilities are backward, unclean and inconvenient, which seems to be just the stereotype of adults, where children will have a powerful ability to create happiness, and everything can be played.
Even the 3-year-old brother can play 100 ways to play corn.
Children living in the countryside will help adults to dry corn, which has a professional saying, called corn.
In the eyes of these two brothers in my family, this job does not need to be learned at all, just look at it. They dragged their feet to the ground, sliding left and right, the corn turned over, the work was done, and they also felt that they had played, which was simply a model of "turning work into play".
The son saw that the outermost circle of the area where the corn was dried was artificially arranged on the corn cob, and he realized that it was the boundary of the drying area, so he made up the appearance that had been set up, and he also arranged some of the remaining areas by himself.
Ms. Montessori said that children's job is to play. Therefore, Montessori's classrooms are filled with a wealth of activity materials and teaching aids, allowing children to use materials to exert their own nature and creativity. When I came to the countryside, I learned that the original countryside was a "large Montessori classroom".
2. Inadvertently cured the child's "lack of nature" disease
The neighbor Uncle invited the children to pick vegetables in an electric tricycle. They hurled at the car, rolled on the car with a running belt, and headed for the wind on the country road, and I seemed to hear their inner os: the open-top tractor was too exciting.
When they got to the vegetable patch, the entrance to the greenhouse was a small hole not much taller than a child's, and they fished in, tiptoeing and muttering quietly, pretending to be an adventure into a mysterious forest.
The greenhouse is full of ripe melons and fruits, and children experience them one by one with small hands.
Freshly picked cucumbers, tender and fresh, a mouthful of sweetness, which is not tasted in the city.
My son likes to eat bread, my family has a picture book called "Busy Town", my son has read the part of making bread in it countless times, from wheat to flour, and then made into bread, let us talk about it over and over again.
(Taken from the picture book "Busy Town")
Finally, in the big countryside, he saw the "mill" in the reality of making bread.
In his son's eyes, the mill is a magical place. When he knew that there was a long passage in the mill, in order to let the wind blow away the wheat shell in the pipe, he screamed with excitement!
(Separated wheat husk)
Although the clothes are too dirty to see after playing like this, it is only the clothes that are dirty, and the rich is the soul. Clothes can be washed, big deals can buy new ones, childhood is gone and never comes back.
American author Richard Louv proposed "nature-deficit disorder" in his best-selling book The Last Child in the Woods. Most children don't recognize the plants around them, don't know where the food comes from, and don't know how to name the birds correctly. "Natural deficiency" can cause children to feel sluggish, their ability to observe and appreciate the surrounding things is weakened, their concentration is not concentrated, and even depression and pessimistic mood changes occur.
In the vast world of the countryside, children play with flowers, trees, stone streams, participate in farming, observe crops, nature is no longer lacking, creativity, physical fitness, self-confidence growth are obvious.
3. For children, the material abundance of the countryside is real
The children of rural life are also much easier to integrate than I thought, and they like it to the point of not being able to.
The people of the north rely on the earthen kang to spend the long winter, so in the layout of the residence, this side of the wall is a stove for cooking rice, and the other side of the wall is connected to the earth kang, that is, the bed. The firepower of the stove is transported to the bottom of the kang to keep the kang warm.
The children are very fond of such an extensive stove, and being able to put such a large pot is much more than the gas stove at home.
(Earth stove)
When the village eats the table, hundreds of people rely on these pots of flowing water, the firewood is very strong, and the ingredients have just been picked from the field, which is very fresh.
The heroic way of cooking gives birth to the most original delicacies, and children can concentrate on watching it for half a day.
Everyone thinks that urban civilization has brought material abundance, but for children, the countryside is the place with the most material abundance.
The countryside is a place where children can especially be exposed to small animals and small lives.
The neighbor Uncle encountered an injured pigeon on the road and caught it and raised it. When he pulled the pigeon out of his coat, the children's eyes lit up. Even though I have seen all kinds of exquisite toys in the city, the live pigeons are really amazing compared to them, the feathers, the eyeballs, the claws, it is too delicate.
The old lady's family is a cattle breeder, the mother cow has just given birth to a calf, the calf has big eyes, and the timid is still very gentle, and the sons sit up unceremoniously. Cows are grazing! Cow pulled! The cow is barking! Everything is so fresh.
The animals that children come into contact with are not only flying in the sky, running on the ground, but also crawling underground. My brother's favorite thing is to go to the fields to catch snails. Later, when I returned to the city and videoed with my grandparents, I always had to greet the snails who were caught and how they were doing, which became an interesting little topic between grandchildren.
(Snails of the "all dead")
There are houses left over from the Qing Dynasty in the village, which have not been repaired or cared about.
We take our children to see, and the children look very carefully, occasionally asking, "Why are these houses so broken?" No one lives? "These patterns are so beautiful."
Listening to the building tell the story of the passage of time is also a very unique experience.
(The iron ring on the outer wall is for tethering livestock)
4. The next trip plan with a baby is "Summer Countryside"
This time back to my husband's hometown is winter, and in fact, the rural play in different seasons is also very different, and the countryside in different places is also very different.
Just as my friend took the child zz to play at his grandmother's house in the southern countryside during the summer vacation, the experience was too rich.
There was a creek in front of Grandma's house, which made the children in the city who soaked in the pool envious.
In addition to swimming naturally, the wilder way to play is to touch the fish and catch shrimp, and the harvest is full every day.
Every family in the village has a field, which can be self-sufficient, and all the vegetables, melons and fruits that are eaten daily are planted. Children can visualize how food moves from field to table.
Feed the chickens yourself and finally know what the chickens eat.
Incarnate as a little detective, tactfully find an egg, and the next time you eat an egg, you will not pick the egg white to eat.
Chestnut is a "thorn head", usually never seen chestnut Buddha, it turned out to look like this!
Successfully digging out a large sweet potato from the ground, this smile is the most compatible with childhood.
Sunning the golden rice, while drying, silently chanting "the grains are hard".
Little farmers dry soybeans.
Grind soybeans to make tofu.
Hi yo yo yo water the crops.
Pick tea seeds from the tree, which can be pressed for oil.
Push on the boy's beloved trolley, and every day is full of vitality.
In the process of these plays, they also mobilize the children's own automatic thinking and exploration all the time. For example, bamboo tubes can also be used as water pipes, and they will think about where the water comes from and how to divert it.
Stream iced large watermelon. In the summer, while eating cold watermelon, I wonder what is the principle of this natural refrigerator?
Uter Schultz Ostmann, chairman of the presidium of the German Federation of Nature and Forest Kindergartens and founder of the Nature Play Pedagogy, said: "In the forest, they are playing with the swing of the big tree, not the artificial swing, they are jumping up and down the tree, not climbing the building blocks, they grow with nature. ”
When children are integrated into nature, their perception is very rich. Children do not have so many stereotypes, and they open their hearts to the countless sensory stimuli that flow into their lives, and life naturally flourishes.
This is a 3rd grade essay for z children, which is enough to see the impact of these experiences on him.
So I have already thought that in the summer, I will take the babies to the countryside again.
The countryside is home to most of us, it is the place where we can easily touch nature, and the opportunity to visit the village is really one of the most economical and meaningful ways to play.