Speaking of Elon Musk, I believe that everyone will not be unfamiliar: the world's richest man, Iron Man prototype, Tesla founder, technology madman...
There are always many unexpected moves in him: sending humans to Mars, giving the child a name that no one can read, "X A-Xii", and giving birth to his eighth child through surrogacy with his ex-girlfriend at the end of 2021, which is also the first thousand gold (the first child born to his ex-wife died prematurely).
Musk and his ex-girlfriend Grimes, a very personal Canadian musician.
Why broke up with an ex-girlfriend and still have kids?
Ex-girlfriend Grimes stepped forward and said her current relationship with Musk is a fluid relationship, "very flexible, even if they break up, live in a different house, and are best friends." We see each other often, we just need to be free and always want at least three or four kids...".
Musk with youngest son X A-12 Musk
Well, their relationship is difficult for ordinary people to understand, but why give birth to so much?
In fact, Musk has long explained, "The biggest threat to human civilization is low fertility, no more children are born, civilization will collapse." ”
It turns out that Musk has been performing the duties of the earthlings, even if he is busy to the work unit in five minutes, married and divorced, but the love and baby are not delayed.
What's more, he is very concerned about the education of his children, and every day he is busy to fly, or he will take time to accompany them, play games and read together, and he is not a hand-wavering treasurer at all.
He has a lot of mavericks about how to educate his children, and some of his remarks are even quite controversial, but they can't hide the fact that he is indeed a good father.
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Musk: The wife is an accessory, and the favorite is the child
Musk had eight children, and unfortunately, the first child died at 10 weeks, and he once said in an email to Tesla employees: I felt his heartbeat, he died in my arms.
Musk never hesitates to show love to his children, calling them the love of his life on many occasions. However, as his wife or lover, he is not so lucky.
He married his first wife, Justin, in 2000, and after the death of his first child, probably to fill the pain of losing his son, Justin gave birth to twin boys in 2004 and triplets in 2006 through IVF techniques.
Musk and his first wife, Canadian writer Justine Wilson
Having given birth to 5 sons in two years, the task of caring for the children fell almost entirely on Justin, because in Musk's view, "babies are just machines for eating and defecating", and he can't do anything about it.
In 2008, Musk's first marriage came to an end. After the divorce, Justin wrote in Jia Ren magazine and exposed a lot of Musk's material, saying that Musk was very strong, addicted to work, and made her feel that she was an accessory.
When she and Musk said they were his wife and not an employee, Musk said, "If you were my employee, I would fire you right away." ”
Musk later married British actress Tallura Riley, during which time she did not have children, And Tallura, as a stepmother, helped take care of Musk and his ex-wife's five sons, and divorced after the two were separated and merged many times.
Musk with his second wife, British actress Talula Riley
After ending the two marriages, Musk did not marry again, but the girlfriends around him kept, claiming to spend 10 hours a week with his girlfriend.
Musk has a date with Amber Heard
Grimes, who also has a lot of personality, complained that Musk's life is not very particular, "living like a billionaire at all, sometimes the standard of living is simply below the poverty line." ”
She added, "When they were dating, the two lived in a $40,000 mobile home with no security or privacy to speak of, the mattress was broken and reluctant to buy a new one, and they ate peanut butter for 8 consecutive days." ”
Musk with ex-girlfriend Grimes
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Super Daddy: In addition to work, it is to accompany the children
Musk admits that he "didn't do much in the early stages of the child's life, basically the wife, girlfriend and nanny in charge of the care." ”
Musk calls and the son rips his clothes
The absence of children's early companionship and early education enlightenment has to be said to be a very regrettable thing.
Friends who are familiar with the translation teacher know that the translation attaches great importance to the early education of the child, and since the birth of the daughter Eva, a large part of the energy has been invested in scientific early education to cultivate the child's cognitive and thinking ability.
The translation teacher said that if the child's reading, thinking, language, behavior habits, etc. are trained and developed in the early stage of enlightenment, it will often play a multiplier effect with half the effort; if this link is missing, the child needs to make a lot of efforts to do a good job after formally going to school.
Fortunately, although Musk missed the early education enlightenment of his children, when the children grew up a little, they made up for it through daily companionship and better education.
Musk said, "When the kids grow up, I play more roles. "During non-working hours, he spends time with the kids.
Musk is with five sons born to his first wife
Musk spends more than half of his week with his children, frequently visiting his factory in California with his sons and camping together every year. Except for trips related to children, he almost never takes vacations.
Musk plays with the kids
According to his second wife, Tallura, Musk is very loving to the children and will try to get home early, have dinner with the children, play computer games with the children, and travel together on weekends.
Musk is with the kids
Among the many children, Musk is particularly concerned about his youngest son, "X A-Xii", where he goes, including taking him to Zoom meetings and attending time magazine's Person of the Year awards ceremony.
Musk took his youngest son to a video conference
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Dissatisfied with school education, he created a school for his children
Musk is very concerned about the education of children, and he has bluntly said that most of the things he learns are meaningless, because many of the things he learns will not be used in the future
His five sons, who were supposed to study at Millman School, a gifted school in Southern California that only admits children with an IQ of 138 or higher, were hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the place where the smart brain shines."
But Musk is not happy with the school. He believes that all students are in the same time, in the same grade, and education is like an assembly line.
And good education is that children should learn what they like.
For his own children, Musk invested nearly a million dollars in 2014 to start a school called "Ad Astra", completely subverting the traditional education system.
Ad Astra, derived from the famous Latin phrase "bumpy road, finally reaching the stars", translated into English means "to the stars", hoping that school would become as interesting as exploring the universe.
Along with Musk's five children, there are also children of several core members of Space X, and since then, a small number of children of Space X members have been admitted every year, and there are fewer than 50 students in total.
Ad Astra's educational philosophy is to create an environment in which children can explore their talents, slowly find what they want to do, and focus their ultimate interests to expose them to different things.
The school abolished the grade system, and students were organized into different study groups not through age, but through ability and interest assessments.
There is no need for a teacher qualification certificate, the teacher is the culmination of various fields, and there is no fixed curriculum, according to the situation of the teacher, targeted and flexible construction of the curriculum framework.
Ad Astr School official website
It is understood that Ad Astr currently only provides education at the primary school level, and children still have to transfer to traditional schools after junior high school.
As a super dad, Musk wakes up every day, races against time to brush emails, deal with urgent and important work emails, and then personally sends his baby to school and sends him to Ad Astra School, which is built at Space X's headquarters.
Musk's Mars colonization program continues, and he recently tweeted that he hopes to send humans to Mars in 2029.
We don't know how many crazy dreams this super dreamer still has; how many forward-looking views and actions there are in education, but one thing is certain: through his push for education, there are endless possibilities for the future of children.
The translation teacher believes that maybe we can't be like him, in the child's infancy, leave it alone, but we can be like him, in his free time, accompany the child more, explore the child's interest points and potential, help the child expand insight and cognition, improve the pattern and vision.
You know, billionaires don't have fake hands with others when they spend time with their children.
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