Children living in this era of pluralism should read more "idle books" to enrich their children's general knowledge, so that when children grow up, they can become not "ordinary people".
When the neighbor's child was younger, I was actually a few years older than his child, so my parents would often take me to visit each other.
Two people sometimes play together, read books together, and study together, and in the long contact, I found that although his children learn very well, they are not the kind of learning attitude of "head hanging beam cone thorns", but an attitude that seems to me to be more "free and loose".
Usually, the neighbor's child does not spend all his time on schoolwork, of course, he is also very serious about schoolwork.
However, when he completes the day's study tasks, he will not wander in the "sea of questions" or learn "advanced knowledge", but like to read books by himself.
Some people may think that he loves to read, isn't this just learning behavior?
But you know, he is reading extracurricular books, such as books such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which in the eyes of adults are basically "idle books" that are not helpful to academic performance.
However, the neighbor couple is still relatively open, seeing the children reading extracurricular books, but also more respectful of the child's behavior, so the neighbor's children gradually grow up in this hobby.
In my heart, I always felt that reading extracurricular books would delay my studies, so I didn't develop the same habit as the children in the neighborhood. However, when I grew up, I regretted it.
Although the neighbor's children like to read extracurricular books, their academic performance is not bad at all, and they have always maintained excellent results, and even scored 145 points in the Chinese language test during the college entrance examination, and finally successfully admitted to the university of their choice.
And now, he has finished his doctorate, the school paid a high salary to let him stay in the school to work, but he was not here, he actually refused the invitation of the school, and opened his own entrepreneurial road.
The feeling he gave me was that whether it was academic qualifications or courage, I felt that he was the best. Now that my child is in elementary school, I want to ask him for some learning experience, hoping that it will help me educate my children.
When we talked about the learning experience, he said: "I feel that reading extracurricular books is actually very helpful for learning." ”
For his words, I was a little surprised, can I get a high score of 145 points by reading extracurricular books? So he questioned, "Nothing else?" ”
He replied: "If the education method is different from others, then the most obvious thing is to read extracurricular books, many parents do not like to let their children read extracurricular books, think it will delay learning, but I do not think so, so I will never prevent children from reading extracurricular books, but will provide him with a variety of books." ”
After a pause, he added: "There are many extracurricular books that seem to be 'idle books' in the eyes of ordinary parents, but in fact, they have a great impact on the growth of children, just like character biography, humanistic history, traditional culture, birds, animals, fish and insects, myths and legends, etc." Hearing the examples he gave, I was confused and very confused, can this kind of "strange books" really help children's learning?
He seemed to see what was on my mind and went on to explain to me:
By reading these books, others dare not say, but I know that they can make children's brains more active, more motivated to learn, and more knowledge reserves.
And the mood is still very good, many things in it can play a direct help to learning, and more things, will also have an impact on habits, personality, and temperament.
Not only that, these types of books, you may not feel the impact of reading extracurricular books on a child for a while, but from my experience, I have a deep understanding.
For example, the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas", I read it with my children very early, and the children learned a lot of useful knowledge from it, which not only enriched their knowledge base, but also had a substantial impact on their academic performance, such as literacy, vocabulary, vocabulary comprehension, sentence use and so on.
And the information in it, help children improve their understanding of the world of mountains and seas, greatly increase their interest in history, geography, biology and other disciplines, after reading such books, you will find that children learn like ordinary children play games.
Moreover, the accumulation of rich humanistic knowledge also allows children to gain a dominant positive position in communication with others, thus obtaining a great social success rate.
Speaking with a pleasant expression on his face, he then looked at me and said: "The child's growth is not only academic performance, in addition to good academic performance, the child's communication ability, conversation, thinking and other aspects are also very important, and these, textbooks are difficult to give, because textbooks are mostly cultural education, surgical books can give children other aspects of education."
At this point, I finally understood that he really has a set of education for children, no wonder children are so good, of course, a large part of the reason is related to his reading extracurricular books to his children, and his point is also what many of our parents need to learn.
As for the choice of children's books, I also asked the neighbors for advice, and he said that he had read so many books to his children, but he benefited the most from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
So, I took out my mobile phone and prepared to buy a set for my child to read, and after he saw my move, he hurriedly said: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas is not suitable for your children, your children are still too young, and this set of "Classics of Mountains and Seas for Children" specially created for children is more suitable." ”
"The content expression of "Written to Children' Shan Hai Jing" is more suitable for children, to be honest, I bought it when this set of books was published, although it was 'written for children', but after I saw it, I felt that if children read this version of the Shan Hai Jing when they were young, they would definitely be more positively affected, because in addition to having all the advantages of the Shan Hai Jing, this set of books in addition to having all the advantages of the "Shan Hai Jing" also optimized the sentences and graphics, making it easier for children to understand and easier for children to be interested."
At his suggestion, I prepared this set of "Mountains and Seas For Children", and sure enough, as he said, the child fell in love with this set of books at once, became extremely interested in this set of books, and every day before going to bed, he had to take out one or two stories before going to sleep.
After a while, I found that the child's literacy level increased significantly, the level of phonics also improved a lot, and the thinking became more active.
My baby school was recently teaching how to look up the dictionary, and when he read this book, if he encountered words he didn't know, he would take the initiative to look up the dictionary, and suddenly felt that he suddenly became fond of learning, and he was very pleased, perhaps because the interesting stories in the Shan Hai Jing attracted him and gave him motivation.
Write at the end
In the book "A Good Mother Is Better than a Good Teacher", it is written that children who never read extracurricular books and rarely read extracurricular books will not learn well, and the learning difference between children who love extracurricular books and children who do not love extracurricular books will also be very obvious.
Therefore, children like to read extracurricular books, parents can not blindly stop, just need to control the selection of books, or correctly guide children to read extracurricular books, then, will be able to get unexpected gains from it.
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