The average child is four years old, lying in the warmth of the home playing with blocks, or playing with sand in the park.
For He Yide, a boy who is also four years old, at his father's request, he has to run naked and run outdoors at minus thirteen degrees.
The photo of a four-year-old boy running naked was first published in 2012, when it caused a nationwide uproar.
Running in the snow, adults may not be able to stand it, is it a little too much to use on such a weak child?
Despite the outside world's discussion, the father still insists on his eagle education, and now that 10 years have passed, what unexpected changes have taken place in the little boy of that year.
At the age of thirteen, he received a doctoral acceptance letter
The father and son in the story, the son is called He Yide, the father is called He Liesheng, living in New York, USA. The father was only happy to have a son in his forties, and the son was born only seven months old, a premature baby, and the doctor told him that the child was born insufficient, and it was inevitable that he would be weak and sick after that.
Although He Liesheng, who had high hopes for his son, was deeply shocked, he did not give up the hope of continuing to cultivate his children. Soon after the birth of the child, he took his son to swim together, one hour a day, and the cold and summer never stopped.
In addition to physical training, intellectual training also has to keep up, with seven years of experience as a teacher He Liesheng himself has developed a set of teaching programs, from six months to the child's basic teaching, color recognition, size discrimination.
By the time he was 2 years old, his son was able to recognize 3,000 Chinese characters, which is no exaggeration to say that he was a prodigy.
Seeing that his son was learning better and better, He Liesheng was more confident in his child's education. He began to try to stimulate the child's potential in various ways.
A video of a naked snow run at the age of four exposed the father's eagle education to the public, and it was not known that this was only the tip of the iceberg.
Also at the age of four, He Yide completed a self-driving sailing race on the high seas and followed his father for fifteen hours to climb the top of Fuji Mountain.
At the age of five, he became the winner of the 7th National Pyramid Abacus Elite Competition, and also set a Guinness World Record, flying the plane alone at the age of five, flying over the Beijing Wildlife Park twice in 35 minutes.
At the age of six, He Yide published his autobiography, trekked through Lop Nur three times since the age of seven, took the self-examination of Nanjing University at the age of eight, and passed twenty self-examination subjects in one year at the age of ten, breaking the Chinese self-examination adult record.
At the age of 12, he graduated from Nanjing University with a bachelor's degree, and at the age of 13, he completed the MBA program of Wukang University in Spain and successfully graduated.
In December 2021, at the age of 13, He Yide received a doctoral acceptance letter from the University of São Paulo in the Philippines.
He Yide's life is like a goal that can only be achieved by ordinary people at the age of twenty-six, and he completed it at the age of thirteen.
Eagle Daddy's teaching methods cannot be copied and pasted
Behind He Yide's enviable doctoral acceptance letter, the cultivation of fathers is undoubtedly an indispensable part. He Liesheng has insisted on eagle-style education for children for many years, and its name comes from the process of eagle training chicks in nature, and the eagle directly throws the chicks off the cliff to force the chicks to learn to fly freely.
He Liesheng has always adhered to his own educational philosophy, "adventure but not risk", from rowing, flying, hiking Lop Nur and other activities, it is not difficult to see that this father has been honing his child's will and helping his son see more possibilities in this world.
Carefully reviewing the process of Ho Dad's cultivation of his children, such a path is indeed not easy to imitate, and the cost of these sports alone is not something that an ordinary family can afford.
And these trainings are tailored by the father according to the child's physical condition, the same is snow naked running, He Yide can bear, but other children may not be able to bear, each child's basic physical condition, personality characteristics are not the same, a set of dead methods used on the living, doomed to achieve little effect.
Therefore, the educational method for He Dad is that he can't draw gourds as they were, and this is why, later He Dad tried to establish Eagle Dad Public School, but in the end he didn't have a big important reason.
Teach children to explore the world
In fact, behind the various activities arranged by Eagle Dad for his children, there is a most core concept hidden, that is, exploration.
In the early days of childhood, if parents can help their children explore the world, then this will benefit their children for life.
Exploration here does not mean participating in expensive and scary activities, flying airplanes, rowing boats, but helping children to open up their sights, touches, smells, hearing, tastes, and inspire children to think and maintain curiosity about the world.
The so-called exploration can be that parents take their children to the countryside for a walk, feel the fresh air in the forest, touch the flowers and grasses in the grass, and listen to the birds whispering.
The so-called exploration can be that parents can read picture books with their children, identify the beauty of Chinese characters, the charm of pictures, go deep into the characters in the story, and feel their joys and sorrows.
These explorations can well enrich the child's heart, help the brain develop, and let the child continue to grow. More importantly, the child's exploration is not a one-person exploration, often with the parents, this precious companionship and parent-child interaction, for the construction of the child's sense of security is also crucial.