The family has a baby who keeps asking "why", and it's time to turn out this documentary

Text | Rice grain mom

I don't know if you have ever experienced what it feels like to be chased by the baby from morning to night and asked "why". If grief has a shape, it must be the child asking "why."

For a while, the curiosity of rice grains was particularly strong.

Every morning when I open my eyes, what awaits me is a series of head-wrenching questions.

"Why can't I send a one-shot like Sasuke?"

"Why can't I become Ultraman?"

"Why don't you let me eat candy?"

"Why don't you have a dog?"

"Why?"

……

Listening to the broken thoughts of the grains of rice, I couldn't wait to close my eyes and pass out.

If I asked some basic scientific questions, I could still let him go through the Encyclopedia, but he was extraterrestrial life for a while, animal intelligence, and the old mother couldn't stand it, so where do I have to find answers to these strange questions.

Annoying is really annoying, but think about it, what is wrong with the child's brain hole, is not science popularization, what is difficult! As a veteran resource miner, I can't be a stumbling block on the road to children's curiosity! I have to stand up!"

Digging three feet into the ground, I finally turned to a super interesting encyclopedia of life produced by Netflix, "Explained" (also translated as "Explain Everything" or "Pop Encyclopedia").

Each episode has a different theme, covering a variety of bizarre questions such as alien life, puzzle sports, pets, esports games, and even punctuation. Each episode is about 20 minutes long, analyzing and interpreting the origin of a thing to the present and the future, from all angles and levels, compared with academic science, this documentary is more lifelike.

As a daily eye-opening little knowledge is enough. Resources have been found, where is the reason not to share with the sisters? In order to get this sharing I also really fought, the company's network has a bit of a failure, I took the resources home to pass the network disk, back and forth for a night, finally got it right.

Unlike the general popular science documentaries that are more academic, this is a small popular science documentary on various popular or everyday things.

Needless to say, Netflix has always been willing to spend money on its own production, and it has made a good budget to ensure that the documentary is well-made.

Its title is even more domineering, called "Explain Everything", as the name suggests, is to help us quickly understand a rule in a short period of time, or the context of the development of a thing, which is very suitable for reading with children as a science popularization introduction.

Take, for example, the question about "sugar.".

I believe that many old mothers, like me, pay special attention to the nutritional balance of their children. However, once too much sugar intake, this balance will be upset, which will bring many adverse consequences.

Rice grain mother has quit sugar for many years and is best at digging up anti-sugar goodies.

But almost no child can resist the temptation of sweetness, have you ever wondered why humans are so sweet??

This goes back a long, long time.

Our ancestors survived by hunting and gathering fruits, all of which required a lot of heat stored in the body to maintain labor.

For them, sugar is the most accessible thing and the most convenient source of energy.

Thousands of years ago, human ancestors learned to extract sugar from sugar cane.

Passed down from generation to generation, sweetness has slowly been written into human DNA.

Fashionable girls in advertising pictorials tell you that the most popular thing in that era was to drink small sweet water.

There is also an official certification that after cycling and sports, the most beneficial drink for the body is also small sweet water.

At that time, sugary drinks were concave shapes and once became a symbol of status and status.

But now we no longer need to consume sugar to maintain calories, too much sugar will only bring us obesity, caries, heart disease and other problems, it has become a burden.

▲Look at the advertisements that are full of sense of this era

So researchers began to constantly look for sugar substitutes, and also launched a zero-calorie beverage, but how effective?

Cyclamate, aspartame, stevia, and a variety of artificial sweeteners?

Can they completely replace sugar? Is there a healthy, balanced way to satisfy our raw craving for sweetness?

When the baby is clamoring for candy, how do we answer?

Let's go to the documentary to find out!

Let's look at the dog that the rice grain has in mind.

Before watching this documentary, I really hadn't noticed that the intersection between dogs and human lives was so deep!

Studies have shown that the dog's ancestor wolf was the first animal to be tamed by humans.

In the process of domestication, people will choose relatively gentle wolves to breed the next generation, and over time, wild wolves will slowly become friendly and loyal dogs.

Moreover, the hunting skills that originally survived in the wild have also been domesticated and become more suitable for family life.

For example, a dog nanny.

There is also this overwhelming dog's eyes, which appear when the dog asks for a snack from the shoveler, or wants to hug and kiss and raise it high.

It belongs to the human-limited "Ecstasy Soup" that is specially starred, because this expression is of no use to their kind.

However, for their performances, human beings will receive them all every time, no way, cute is justice, my family's stupid boy rice grains are not confused

It's not just that the light will be cute and cute, and there are dogs that are real.

Dogs have a very strong ability to perceive human emotions, they always know when you need to be close, when you need to be quiet, in the intervention of some autistic children, the Wang Wang team can always make a great contribution.

In the eyes of humans, they have domesticated dogs, but perhaps in the eyes of dogs, they are the cure for humans.

How magical can the theme of this documentary be? In addition to some tangible objects that you can reach on a daily basis, even an abstract exclamation point can be filmed in one episode!

Humans have many inventions, but to end a sentence, they can usually only use three symbols: period, question mark, and exclamation point.

The period indicates the end of a sentence, the question mark is used to ask, but what about the exclamation point?

Compared with other symbols, the exclamation point itself has a strong emotional color, and a little attention will cause misunderstanding.

This quarrel simply laughed me to death.

Maybe you want to express strong emotions, but others may think you're bluffing or can't tell your true intentions at all.

This scale is really difficult to grasp.

And apologies.

We usually teach children to apologize for doing wrong things, but what kind of apologies are sincere and effective?

Anyway, it won't be a small essay like "Sorry, I didn't intend to take up public resources".

Puzzle and sports projects are also involved.

As a chess game that cultivates concentration, memory and thinking skills, chess has always been favored by the Fujian University.

It is generally considered a game of high IQ, and many artists and celebrities like to play it.

What is the magic of this tiny 64-square chessboard that attracts so many people who want to compete?

The documentary starts with the most basic rules, using an animated chessboard to show the role of each piece, and the weakest soldier can defeat the king.

And the excellence of female leaders in history is also reflected in the rules, the queen can go to any corner of the chessboard, if you lose it, then I advise you to obediently admit defeat.

Although the board is only 64 blocks, it contains more unique moves than grains of sand on Earth or dust particles in the Milky Way.

Each step will lead to a kaleidoscopic ending, for chess players, winning chess is not enough, but also to win beautiful, really can be called a strategist, decisive victory thousands of miles away.

This may be the charm of chess.

And as a "gentleman's game", cricket is not far behind.

The sport, which originated in The Uk, is a protracted battle, with players playing at least six hours a day in test matches at the International Cricket Tournament, with coffee breaks in between.

Sometimes you have to stop fighting, and everyone goes to lunch first, otherwise the physical strength can't keep up. To complete a full game, it takes 5 days!

The sport is most advocated by sportmanship and fair play, and pays special attention to hand-eye coordination and the use of skills, is there an old mother's DNA?

There are also many very interesting little things in the film, such as Galileo once supplemented his home by giving others astrology; water is the oil of the future century; cosmetic surgery was originally designed to help wounded warriors repair their appearance.

An episode is only 15-20 minutes, belongs to the short and fast output mode, fragmented time is used to brush mobile phone short videos, it is better to come to see this "Explain Everything", and fun and long knowledge!

And the resources have embedded subtitles, you can choose Chinese Simplified in the settings, don't worry about not understanding.

The best thing about this documentary is that it is not only popular science, but also the discussion and thinking about the matter itself, through which children can see different aspects of the world, and those curiosities and curiosities will be satisfied, and their horizons will be broadened.

The film has a total of three seasons, the theme from popular music, the vast universe to puzzle sports and thinking about abstract problems, is really all-encompassing, but the acceptance of children of different ages is different, rice grain mother still recommends that old fathers and mothers first look at the catalog in the resources, pick out the content suitable for their own children, and do it in mind.

This can not only be "tailor-made" for the child, but also equivalent to pre-studying homework in advance, which is convenient for showing in front of the baby.

About the author: @Rice Grain Mom Love To Share (Welcome to Pay Attention), American returnee, Haidian parent, when the first place in the new book list "Parent-child English Book That Affects Children's Life" author. Focus on the scientific parenting of 0-5-year-old babies, learning enlightenment, and the world's novelty recommendation, welcome to pay attention! (5-12 years old bao mom please pay attention to: @ rice grain mother channel)