The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was finally held as scheduled, whether it was the opening ceremony with full cultural charm or the ice piers with a cute attitude, the Winter Olympics were brought to the hot search list. In addition to the high-level opening ceremony as always, the players of this Winter Olympics are also amazing.
However, a careful crowd noticed the background of the contestants and came to a new conclusion: "The volume of the Bay Area has risen to a new height." ”
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Chen Wei
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Chen Wei, 22, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is currently studying at Yale University, majoring in statistics. Chen Wei, the youngest child in the family, has two older brothers who work in finance and aerospace, one sister works at Apple and the other is a co-founder of a bio-startup.
Chen Wei began practicing skating at the age of 3, showing his talent in skating from an early age, and won the amateur men's championship of the American Figure Skating Championships at the age of 10, becoming the youngest amateur in the history of the award.
Since then, Chen Wei has won numerous awards, winning three consecutive world championships at the 2018, 2019 and 2021 World Championships, winning three consecutive grand prix finals from 2017 to 2019, and winning the bronze medal in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics team competition.
Chen Wei, known as the "King of Four-Sided Jumping", is the first and only one to successfully complete five kinds of four-week jumps (hook hand jump 4Lz, rear inner point ice jump 4F, rear outside jump 4Lo, rear inner jump 4S, rear outer point ice jump 4T) in the official international competition recognized by the International Figure Skating Union.
In 2018, he set an Olympic record in Pyeongchang, becoming the first contestant to challenge six difficult four-week jumps in a single program.
Chen Wei's studies are also outstanding, and he is a proper scholar. In 2017, Chen Wei suspended his school for the Pyeongchang Olympics for a year, scored a full score of 800 in SAT mathematics, and entered Yale University's statistics major in the fall of 2018 in a way that took into account both skating and academics.
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Zhou Zhifang
Born in San Jose, Bay Area, 21, he is now a student at Brown University. Although this is Zhou Zhifang's first participation in the Olympic Games, he is very promising to win a medal.
He has won many awards, including the 2017 American Figure Skating Championships, the 2017 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and the 6th place at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Zhou Zhifang is not only extremely talented in figure skating, but also did not fall behind in learning, completing high school at the age of 16, and won the President's Award with full ACT scores.
Zhou Zhifang's parents, who are classmates in Tsinghua's computer department, came to Silicon Valley in the early 1990s with the tide of going abroad, working at Google and Oracle, respectively. Zhou Zhifang has an older sister who studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Gu Ailing
Gu Ailing was born on September 3, 2003 in San Francisco, California. Her father is American and her mother, Gu Yan, is from Beijing, China. Gu Yan studied biochemistry at Rockefeller University, and her first skiing was in New York, and her love of skiing (she used to be a ski instructor near Lake Tahoe) influenced Gu Ailing. Gu Ailing grew up living in the United States and often traveled with her mother to Beijing, China.
In June 2019, Gu Ailing began to represent China after the International Ski Federation changed its nationality to the People's Republic of China.
In the early morning of January 31, Beijing time, Gu Ailing played steadily, won another championship, and ended the journey with 2 gold and 1 bronze in the X Games Aspen station of the 2021 World Extreme Games. Gu Ailing also became the first athlete to win 3 medals at X Games, setting a new record the day before.
Gu Ailing registered three events at the X Games Aspen station at the 2021 World Extreme Games, in chronological order of competition:
Big Jump: Third place
U-Shaped Track Race: Champion
Slope Obstacle Skills: Champion
Gu Ailing's strengths are: slope obstacle skills> U-shaped track races> big jumps. The third place in the big jump is also worth celebrating.
After watching so many excellent children, many parents can't help but ask: How did such an excellent child get trained? Chinese American professors explained the 4 major educational concepts, which are shared with you here.
The effort of the process is more important than the result
The process of effort is crucial. And the result is caused by many reasons, not necessarily completely your personal reasons, objective factors, human factors will affect the result, and the only thing you can grasp is to work hard.
Therefore, you should tell your child what you pay the most attention to is how much effort you have made in this process, whether you have found your own problems, and whether you have summed up more experience. This is the standard by which parents measure their children's success and failure.
Every child is stressed during a competition or exam. If he feels through the parents' actions and words that the parents are looking forward to that result, it will invisibly bring great pressure to the child, and the result will be counterproductive.
On the other hand, if the child really gets bad results and the parents can't see his efforts, he will be more sad and difficult to accept the failure, and will hesitate to continue to do this, so that the habit of not summarizing experience, easy to give up, will be farther and farther away from the real success.
Because of this standard of parents, children are very relaxed and full-fledged every time they do it. Sometimes if he does not work hard and gets good results, but will not get praise, will be reminded of this kind of accident and opportunism, will pay the price in later learning, these accidents are not the basis of success, so the child has been very enjoying the process of learning.
Gu Ailing also said that her mother did not insist on whether she had to take the Stanford University exam, the only requirement was that she had to continue to study all her life.
Cultivate a correct concept of learning from an early age
Develop good study habits. The cultivation of a habit is indeed a long-term accumulation, and the child's education has a golden period, and it must be grasped from an early age. This is not to simply instill knowledge in children from an early age, but to teach children how to look at learning.
Children start writing homework after primary school, there are often mistakes, to tell him that the process of learning is the process of correcting mistakes, there are errors is a very normal thing, but knowing why it is wrong, and then to correct is the real key.
The professor said: "After graduating from Fudan University in Shanghai with undergraduate and graduate students, I stayed on to teach, and then studied abroad to pursue a doctorate, and I have also worked in American universities for more than ten years, using my personal experience and experience to help and strengthen the studies of middle and high school students. Maybe because of my educational background, I am a person who likes to learn very much, and the learning atmosphere in the family environment is a good influence on children.
But even if there is no such atmosphere, I think a lot of children's habits can also be cultivated, children are very obedient before the fourth grade of a period of time, I feel that this is the golden period to cultivate children's interest and habits in learning, in addition to the family atmosphere, children from childhood every weekend I will take them to the library and bookstore, put them in a special area for children to read, there are many award-winning works of the year, children are very fond of, adults are reading, they also imitate to see, and gradually will be very engaged in reading, If I don't finish reading it, I will pick it up or buy it for my children. The relaxed environment, the pleasant mood, and finally the ability to have their favorite exquisite books make the child feel very happy and cherished every time.
And when the child reads in the library and bookstore, I often take some beautiful pictures of him and hang them on the bedside, which will make the child feel that reading is a happy thing, so that later the child can go to the library or bookstore into a reward for him. When he achieves some achievements or does something good, we will propose to take him to the library or bookstore, and whenever this time the child is very happy, and his excellent writing is also due to the very large amount of reading that accumulates over time. ”
Train your thinking skills from life
The cultivation of children's exploration, thinking ability and observation ability is also in the bits and pieces of life. The professor said: "There was a time when I would take my children to the gym, and when I showered in the gym, facing a mosaic wall, I would suddenly want to close my child's eyes for five seconds, and the child thought it was funny and didn't know what I was going to do. After opening my eyes, I asked him how many pieces of mosaic he had just seen, and this often seemingly unintentional action was actually teaching the child how to carefully observe the subtle things around him. Walking up to the dressing mirror, I'll let him look at me in the mirror and make him think about the imaging of the mirror and the principle of light walking in a straight line. ”
When I grew up, I took him to New York to take the subway, and when I swiped the card, he asked himself how the money was swiped, and at that time, he boldly proposed that he would make a card machine himself. Buy a card machine, connect to your computer, and write programs etc. This inadvertently fostered his keen interest in writing boring programs.
Therefore, every child has a talent, and parents should seriously think about how to arouse his interest in exploration and thinking, so as to explore the characteristics of the child himself.
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Establish good parent-child communication
Positive communication encourages him to challenge himself. Taking at least 15 minutes a day to communicate with the child about what is happening in his life and learning, understanding his thoughts, this habit of chatting every day will make parents more comfortable in raising their children. If your child refuses to communicate, there are also some ways to gradually enhance communication with your child.
Now most children are very fond of playing games, spend more time, parents will usually forcibly suppress, do not allow to play or limited time to play, resulting in children are very resistant, communication barriers are more serious. My child has been playing games since he was a child, I also play with him, I want to understand why he is so interested, in this process we have more common language, in the exchange with children what he likes, children are easy to open their hearts, say a lot of other content, and also become more and more like to chat with us, communication has become a habit, this is a thing that adults and children can be happy about.
In the process of playing the game, I myself changed my mind about playing the game. Playing games is not a bad thing, it is really helpful for children to develop intelligence. Another gain for children to play games is because playing games to make more new friends, which may be the way of communication in this era, of course, playing games does need to have a degree, because playing games is easy to spend a lot of time, but once adults and children communicate smoothly, this time limit becomes a very natural acceptance.
Because the child has been reading a lot since childhood, his writing ability has always been very strong, I encouraged him to join the writing club, and later in the upper grades of primary school, for the sake of the students, he also specially ran a primary school graduation class magazine, and came forward to persuade the principal and teachers to accept his suggestions, and produced some high-level magazines, which were deeply loved by principals, teachers and students. His self-confidence in doing things also increased greatly. It was something he didn't think he could do at all, and I told him to be pioneering, and a lot of things started from scratch and went from having to doing better.
During this university visit, the child said that he wanted to see more schools, and I told him that I could only accompany him to see a limited number of schools, and most of the schools I could not accompany. The child offered to go to school on his own, and after assessing the safety, we felt that we should boldly let go and let the child's longing for adventure be realized. After that, he made his own transportation and accommodation strategies, and in the end, most of the schools were seen and understood by himself. This allows children to have more confidence in themselves and more trust in their own judgment and choices during the application process.
With good communication with parents, many suggestions children will accept and adopt, the United States is a diverse country, we encourage children to communicate with children in various countries, broaden their horizons, and absorb nutrition. Therefore, children will always eat and communicate with different children at lunchtime, and gradually he also realizes how to interact with people, and learns to think more about others, and loving the people around him has become a habit. As a result, I not only made a lot of friends, but also developed a stronger interest in the humanities in addition to science and engineering.
A person's true success must be the success of being a person, not just learning this side, learning to communicate well with others is more important for the future ability.