Some people say that since Chinese children learn to walk, they must be sent to interest classes by impatient parents to cultivate and learn.
In recent years, many educational institutions in the society have grasped the minds of parents and opened a variety of early education classes and interest classes.
Especially this year also encountered the Beijing Winter Olympics, watching the post-00s children shine in the arena, many parents are itchy, hoping that their children can also learn a sports project, maybe they can become the next "gold medal baby".
However, have you ever wondered a question: Are these interest classes in line with the child's normal development?
CCTV once exposed a lamentable case:
Sugar Candy, a 6-year-old girl in Yan'an City, was sent by her parents to a dance class to learn to dance.
Usually, it was her grandmother who picked her up from school, but that day, she had been out of class for more than half an hour and did not see the child's figure. Tragedy happened in dance class. Sugar Sugar fell down while doing the lower back movement.
She tried to stand up, but she fell down again, and the teacher walked over and tried to help her up, but the child still couldn't stand up... By the time Sugar Sugar's mother arrived at the hospital, Sugar Sugar could no longer move.
The diagnosis was spinal cord injury, with no perception below the chest and no movement. After more than 4 months of rehabilitation in Xi'an Children's Hospital, Sugar Sugar had some consciousness.
The doctor said that this paralysis will last for a long time, she can not walk upright like ordinary people, and can only be accompanied by a wheelchair in the future, and the possibility of cure is minimal.
The thought of a 6-year-old child having to sit in a wheelchair all his life, Sugar Sugar's mother was full of remorse. The attending physician who treats Sugar Sugar says their hospital can treat nearly 10 cases a year, and the children who suffer spinal cord injuries due to dance are under the age of 10.
Beijing Bo'ai Hospital also has a data: in the five years from 2015 to 2019, they treated a total of 78 children who recovered from spinal cord injuries caused by exercise.
What is even more amazing is that among these 78 people, there are actually 75 children, all of which are caused by the lower back.
These children, all of whom are girls, and 70% of them have complete spinal cord injuries, that is, they have the possibility of cure for severe paralysis of both legs.
5 years and 75 children, this is just the data of Beijing Bo'ai Hospital. It is hard to imagine how many children in the country are taking the unknown risk of pain because of the action of lowering their lower backs.
In October this year, an 8-year-old girl in Xuchang, Henan Province, suffered paraplegia in both lower limbs after a dancing lower back injury.
Phoenix Satellite TV's "In the Human World" column also reported the experience of Yue Yue, a 10-year-old girl in Chengdu. Also in the dance class, when practicing the lower back, fell to the ground, Yue Yue was eventually diagnosed with paralysis of both lower limbs and permanent spinal cord damage.
In the face of this encounter of the child in the interest class, the victim's parents could not accept the reality for a while, but after several months of tossing and turning for medical treatment, the family tried all the treatment options and spent almost all the family savings, but the child's two legs were still unconscious, and the parents realized at this time that their children should spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair.
Some people may ask: Why is it that just a dance, the child is paralyzed?
Now that medicine is so developed, is there no rescue measure? This also starts from the child's physiological characteristics. In the concept of many people: the child's body is soft and flexible, which is a good time to stretch and shape.
Many of the movements in the dance are "boy skills", which are not practiced when they are young, and they can no longer be practiced when they grow up. However, from a physiological point of view, children aged 6-10 years old have slow spine development, and the spine protection of the spinal cord is not complete.
It is also the relative softness of the spine, when the child is on the lower back, or excessively squeezing the spine, he may not feel anything, and most children can bear it.
However, the spinal cord is overwhelmed by stress and can be edemated or injured in excessive squeezing. Know that the spinal cord is the center of the nervous system, and once it is destroyed, it is difficult to repair.
In addition, spinal cord injury is accompanied by loss of mobility, as well as many complications, such as: urinary tract infections, hydronephrosis, urinary and urinary incontinence, muscle atrophy and so on.
Therefore, an improper lower back movement can really ruin a child. In addition to dance interest classes, taekwondo, judo, roller skating, trampoline and other competitive training classes should also be paid attention to, which also hides many dangerous movements.
For example, judo over-the-shoulder falls, speed roller skating caused by falls, and trampoline falls, seemingly normal sports injuries can be fatal when placed on a child.
So, is it that interest classes such as dance cannot be learned?
In fact, dance, as an art of expressing beauty and interpreting beauty, is beneficial to the physical and mental development of children, and the key lies in being reasonable and moderate.
Most parents let their children learn to dance, the original intention is to hope that their children can practice body shape, improve temperament, not want their children to take a professional route.
Difficult movements such as the lower back do not have to be mastered by the child, let alone used as a standard to measure the child's ability, in professional dance training, these high-intensity movements are recommended to start learning after 10-12 years old.
Secondly, as a parent, when selecting institutions for children, we should be more cautious about many dance training institutions now, in order to appear professional, or in order to enroll more, they deliberately let their children practice high-intensity dangerous movements, and use gimmicks such as examination grades and certificates to fool parents into registering for tuition.
However, in fact, in the general "Chinese dance level examination", level five and below, it is strictly forbidden for children to lower their waists, and only examine children's common kicks, feet presses and other movements.
In the sixth level, there will be more difficult movements such as lower back. There are also dance institutions, because of the lack of professional guidance, when the child accident occurs, the teacher does not understand the child's physiological structure because of ignorance, but promotes the child's secondary injury.
According to the conclusion of the American Acute Spinal Cord Injury Research Association, if a child has a spinal cord injury, there is an "8-hour golden emergency period", that is, within 8 hours, with hormone shock treatment, which can greatly reduce the chance of sequelae such as paralysis.
Therefore, parents must carefully examine the relevant qualifications of interest classes and the relevant qualifications of teachers and coaches to avoid letting children get professional "guidance" and delaying their physical and mental development.
Accidents cannot be prevented, but some tragedies can be effectively avoided in the "2020 China Household Income and Expenditure Survey Report" released by caijing network, showing that the average proportion of education expenditure has accounted for more than 20% of the annual household income!
With the development of society, more and more parents realize that good grades do not mean that their children are excellent. The all-round development of children has become a new requirement of modern society for Chinese parents.
So children do not rest on weekends has become the norm of today's education, children in addition to completing the tasks of the school, but also to attend a variety of interest classes, cram classes.
Behind this, countless parents are brainwashed by the anxiety of education, ignoring the essence of learning, making interest class learning a chase, and making children's childhood a tool of sacrifice.
Lu Yisheng, vice chairman of the China Dancers Association, once wrote an open letter to the dance teacher, in which he said:
"Dancing ≠ Practice, aesthetic education, ≠ dance skills training, they are two different things."
At the end of the day, having children learn to dance is the icing on the cake, but physical health is always the first priority.
As parents, should we learn a little theoretical knowledge and help our children use their efforts in a more suitable place?
When the child begins to ache and resist, should we think about the original intention and respect the child's talent and choice? Education is a serious and worthy of deep consideration, innocent and lively young children really need, not boring skills, but with the melody of youth to dance with the heart, happy dance!