The big thing that every adult knows: Russia and Ukraine are at war.
Our colleagues say:
Last night, the child's father was brushing the video and said: "Fight up." The sound of gunfire came out of the phone, and the two children rushed up to see it.
The father then said to the child, "Look at the map of the world, where these two countries are." ”
After a while, he said, "Cherish the times of peace." ”
The child also has to sleep, and the worried and busy adult only tells the child about this according to various pieces of information.
The war is brutal, but fortunately we are at peace. The sound of the cannon is distant, but it is real.
In the torrent of information, we hope that children can generate their own feelings from the heart, from the brain to think, and someone to guide and accompany them to establish this physical and mental system in childhood, behind the military analysis of the head of the Tao, the slogan of "cherish peace".
Susan Sontag (a well-known American writer, social critic, and anti-war activist) said: "It seems to be a good thing in itself to make people more aware of the infinite suffering that exists in the world that we share with others." ”
How can children approach such a real world? Below, we recommend anti-war books, picture books, and ways to guide children to think deeply.
Late Night Diary
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This book is a realistic theme and anti-war theme selected by the three-five hoe family culture coach speculation class for the third and fourth grade children.
Vera Hiranandani, the author of "Late Night Diaries," has created this book based on her family's real experiences. The story takes place in 1947 during the partition of India and Pakistan, from the perspective of a child, slowly seeing a conflicted, divided, turbulent world, and a heart that has experienced confusion and fear, and is finally soothed by love.
Where does the late night come from
Pakistan declared its independence on 14 August 1947 and the Dominion of India was established on 15 August 1947, which ended 190 years of British colonial rule in India. India and Pakistan are independent, and from a national point of view, one country is divided into two countries, but from everyone's point of view, Hindu people living in Muslim areas, and Muslims living in Hindu areas, have to leave their homes, experience long journeys, disasters, violent injuries, cross national borders, and live in unfamiliar places, so that about 14 million people have completed the migration, and about 1 million people have lost their lives in this migration.
Life in their hometown may be happy and stable, but because of their different religious affiliations, they have to give up their original houses, land, jobs and properties, and can only take a little family property with them and come to strange places.
These people go to a new country, have no money, can only live in dirty places, so there are many slums, they have no jobs, they can only start from scratch, the children can not get a good education, they live a poor life in the slums from generation to generation, and perhaps some people are not willing to do this and have no chance to rise, they will steal and rob, and will create more misfortune. There is a saying that "a grain of ashes of the times, falling on the head of an individual, is a mountain", which may be a true portrayal of the partition of India and Pakistan.
Where to go in the middle of the night
The protagonist of the book is named Nisha, a 12-year-old Hindu girl. At the age of 12, she received a birthday gift, a diary, in which she began to write a daily diary in which she shared her daily life with her mother, expressing thoughts and love, and the great confusion caused by the partition of India and Pakistan. The story of this book also begins with the opening of the diary.
The story begins on July 14, 1947, a month before the partition of India and Pakistan, and on Nisha's 12th birthday, when Nisha's family lived happily and peacefully.
Since Nisha's hometown is a muslim area, hostility between some local Muslims and Hindus has gradually developed, and some people have even broken into the house and injured the maid Kaz. Eventually, the conflict reached its peak, and the family had to embark on a migration path full of tribulations and riots like 14 million people.
On the way to migration, Nisha's family will encounter different tribulations and glimpse the complex human nature.
Nisha's father treated a father who was injured and bleeding, and Nisha's father begged the other party to give him some water, because the children had not drunk water for a long time and could not hold on, but the rescued father only said "not enough" and stood up and walked to his wife and children.
A torrential rain after a long drought made the family drink water and made the family shiver, and when they found an old house to avoid the rain, they met a family of muslims on the move, would they fight because of the conflict they had been fighting?
When they were about to reach their uncle's house, a Muslim suddenly rushed out and kidnapped Nisha, and a knife was also placed on Nisha's neck, and he wanted to kill Nisha to avenge the death of her family at the hands of the Hindu mob, how would they escape?
His uncle, who is also a Muslim as his mother, would he take in the Nisha family despite the conflict between the two religions?
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In The Late Night Diary, Nisha's family faces a succession of encounters, each of which strikes the hearts of the children and leads them into the empathy of the fate of others.
"I still don't understand that last month we were people from the same country, people of different nationalities and religions living together, and now we have to be separated and hate each other." In her diary, Nisha confides her confusion to her mother.
How do children outside the night think about such questions?
Kids outside late at night
The children in the family culture coaching speculation class, after experiencing the speculative discussion, also wrote down their thoughts and feelings:
To fathers who don't give water to drink, they say: