New Year's Eve! Reduce travel and maintain social distancing due to the pandemic. At this point, many parents are worried: in previous years, they have taken their children back to their hometowns, relatives, temple fairs, dinners, and lively Spring Festival, but this year has suddenly changed, will the children be unhappy, how can they take them to have a Spring Festival that is both harvesting and meaningful?
Before the festival, Xiaobian interviewed several big V mothers to see their Spring Festival plans, I believe it can bring you a lot of inspiration!
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Taste the joy of life and turn the Spring Festival into Labor Day
Rice Cake Mom (Master of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Founder of Rice Cake Mom Brand, Head KOL in the Field of Mother and Baby)
After canceling my Spring Festival outing and deciding to stay at home for the New Year, I started hoarding ingredients and baking ingredients. Haha, rice cake does not know, his Spring Festival life has been arranged by me clearly. In fact, this arrangement is not complicated, mainly to do housework.
I have already discussed with the cake father, there is no hourly worker in the Spring Festival, and everyone in the family is responsible for cleaning their own room, including rice cakes. Cleaning is a particularly important link a few years ago, the so-called 24th of the Waxing Moon, dusting the house. Rice cakes can be "removed from the old and welcomed to the new" according to their own needs.
There is also to improve the self-care ability of rice cakes and teach him to wash his socks and underwear by hand. I also plan to teach him to use a washing machine, which he has always been eager to try. Originally, after entering the winter, he had a small task of busy work every day - to add water and change water to every humidifier in the family. Now, he is as attentive to this task as completing the homework assigned by the teacher.
Of course, the New Year is certainly indispensable to make dumplings, paste spring leagues, cut window flowers these years full of flavorful housework. He can serve his family and his hands-on practice that he is interested in, and everyone is happy.
I remember that last year, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, when I was taking online classes at home, a principal in Hangzhou suggested in an open letter to parents: Take advantage of this opportunity to stay at home for a long time, teach children to do housework, and give children home economics lessons.
In fact, I have always believed that for children, doing housework is also a kind of learning. I prefer to call it life education rather than home economics class, because these are things that integrate into the lives of children and truly prepare them for their future lives.
They have all said that the most beautiful picture of the New Year is the family sitting idly and the lights are amiable, but behind this picture, I also hope to let the children see how a family works and what kind of labor it has to pay. We will spend a Spring Festival to do housework together, which is the fireworks in my mind, the joy of life, and it will also be a warm and beautiful Spring Festival.
Have a growing up year playing in middle school
Sunny Day Mother (Parent-child Counselor, Peking University Master, Weibo Parenting Big V, Founder of Parenting Help)
If you don't get together or gather, how can you celebrate the New Year? Our family's plan is to play a middle school growth year through eight major games + spring festival five senses + three gifts + a table of Chinese New Year's Eve meals.
Eight ways to play
I wrote a book called "PlayIng And Nurturing", and the eight major ways to play games include playing games, playing reading, playing art, playing music, playing poetry, playing sports, playing travel, and playing technology. During the Spring Festival, I will design some themes related to the Spring Festival to play, because there are too many to play, so I will share two of these small plans.
Play Reading. Read some picture books related to the Spring Festival, highly recommend the latest original picture book "Spring Blessing", full of flavor, this glorious task is completed by Dad.
Play Travel. Putting all the landmarks or souvenirs about various countries and regions in the house on the ground, the children drag their suitcases to decide where to "play", "arrive at the station", and talk about why they want to go here? Have you been there before? Are there any fun things to share?
The Five Senses of spring festival
I will take my children to experience the Spring Festival in all directions through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
Look at the year. Whether you have seen books or movies related to the New Year, or what you think the New Year should look like, you can talk about it. After the conversation, I'll put it together as an interesting record.
Listen to the year. This year, we may pay tribute to the New Year, listen to the blessings in the WeChat group with the children, the countdown to the New Year's Eve at the Spring Festival Gala, the sound of the family nagging and sniffing melon seeds, and so on.
Smell the years. Look at the refrigerator with your kids, walk around the kitchen, take a deep breath at the table, and smell the new year.
Taste the year. Dumplings with various fillings, sweet and salty rice balls and Lanterns in different north and south, and candy and snacks that children can't eat on weekdays, should be particularly sweet, right? When the time comes, I will definitely ask them what they think of as the taste of the year.
Touch the year. What kind of touch will the year have? I hug the children, and I will take the children to hug the elders and experience different touches together. I also buy new clothes for the children, take them to touch the new clothes, and feel the feeling of the body after putting on the new clothes.
Three gifts
There are several artifacts in our family, which are made every New Year's Day.
The first is a photo book. Organize and print out the children's photos of the year as a gift to the children at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, so that the children can review their growth this year.
The second is the collection box. Collect all kinds of ticket stubs for the year, and some interesting things, and the children will know what new experiences I have gained this year.
The third is the handbook. Collect children's handicrafts, paintings and other fragments of works and make them into handbooks. Because I did a whole year of collation, the content is very rich, so I will also do some extensions, such as making a hand-copied newspaper or a graffiti wall.
A table Chinese New Year's Eve meal
The Spring Festival is very ceremonial, and if the child does not participate, there is no feeling. So, even if your child is only six months old, he can knead the dough with you if he wants. Children will have a special sense of accomplishment and belonging, and feel that he has a lot to contribute to this family and this Spring Festival.
The most important thing for the holidays is companionship. We can take the Spring Festival as a special companion scene, so that children can feel more happiness, grow up in play, have fun in growth, and have a warm and interesting New Year.
Returning to the traditional Chinese New Year "journey through"
Big J (Parenting best-selling author, founder of weChat public account "Big J Little D")
In this Spring Festival without leaving home, is it possible to take your children to spend a quiet Spring Festival?
I propose that this year's Spring Festival take Little D on a journey through, and each elder will tell a game or food that impressed him the most when he was a child, so that Little D can feel the different life of the elders.
Mother-in-law, mom and I want to teach little D-point food cheats.
Mom is ready to take Little D to make egg dumplings. She said that in the past, Chinese New Year's Eve night, every family would make egg dumplings, which is also one of the chores that many children help. This year, the egg dumplings are remade, and the meaning of the little D egg dumplings must be told: the egg dumplings are yellow and brilliant, and the shape is very similar to the yuanbao, which means that the source of wealth is rolling. More importantly, the "golden yuanbao" is made by ourselves, which tells us that a good life needs to be created with our own labor.
The mother-in-law is ready to take little D to make steamed sea bass. Mother-in-law said that Chinese love to eat fish, but also eat fish, eat fish spit is a technical job, but we Chinese do it with ease, because our tongue and mouth are very flexible, we can speak a more complex language - Chinese. In Chinese, fish and Yu are homophonous, and eating fish in the New Year also means that there is more than enough every year, and the life is getting better and better.
I was going to take my daughter to make eight treasures of rice. I will discuss with her which "eight treasures" to put in, which is the process of taking her to make a choice. I would tell her that the eight treasure rice is sweet and sweet, symbolizing the sweetness of life. There will always be hard days in life, but we must remember to eat well, so that we can have spiritual struggle.
Dad and father-in-law prepared sports and games for Little D.
Dad wants to teach Little D to kick shuttlecocks. He said they didn't have as many toys as a child, and even the shuttlecocks were made by themselves. In winter, it is cold outside, the place in the house can not run and jump, and kicking the shuttlecock has become an indoor sport according to local conditions. Dad especially stressed that sports are very important, as long as you want to move, you can move anywhere.
The father-in-law is ready to take little D to play with the stick. Sprinkle a handful of chopsticks on the table, and everyone takes turns taking one, and can't touch the others in the process. Father-in-law said that there are too many new things now, children are easily disturbed by the outside world, poor concentration, this game is very testing patience.
The husband is preparing to take his daughter to decorate the house with him, and he wants to tell his daughter the story of "Nian": a long time ago, "Nian" was a monster, and it would come to harass the villagers at the end of each year. Later, the villagers found that "Nian" was afraid of red things, so in order to drive away "Nian", they used red to decorate their homes and wear red clothes. Today, this custom has survived. My husband said that he wanted to tell his daughter that the Spring Festival is of great significance to each of our Chinese, not only because we can eat delicious food and have fun, but also because we attach great importance to "reunion". In the past, "reunion" could defeat monsters, and now, "reunion" can create great value together.
This is my family's Spring Festival plan this year. After having children, I find it very important to help children know who they are and where their roots are, which will help them to know our great motherland more deeply, build stronger self-confidence, and be proud of being a Chinese.
epilogue:
New Year' Day, the happiest must be children, no matter how special the situation, as long as you are a parent with a heart, you can take your children to spend a meaningful Spring Festival, so that they can understand more truths, learn more skills, and experience the strong Chinese flavor and Chinese feelings in a cheerful and joyful atmosphere.