Chat with the mother of your child's classmates on the way to school in the afternoon. Listen to the other party's mother said that the child does not study hard, in addition to liking sports, other than like sports, other than not, it seems that in the future can only do the work of selling strength.
I said how is it possible, the child is still young and has not yet exerted his superpowers. The classmate's mother smiled and said, Hey, sports are good, the future employment direction is relatively narrow, how much athletes have to pay, and how many people are running with them, and few who really become sports stars.
I persuaded that if you give your child career planning in advance, you have to discuss it with your child, and you like sports, and your future career is not only an athlete, but there are many things that can be done
I recommend her to check out this book, Fun Careers: What Can You Do When You Grow Up? 》
This book "Fun Career: What Can You Do When You Grow Up?" The author is Steve Martin, a well-known British language education expert, who has studied children's language teaching for many years and has authored a number of children's books covering various fields. The artist is Tom Woolley, from Derbyshire, England. Translated by Luo Yinghua, published by Guangxi Normal University Press.
1 Change prejudices, like sports to support children
The general psychology of many parents is that as long as the child learns well, he is in good health. Sport up to standard. Like sports, as a hobby can be, if you like sports, will come and go to this aspect of development, the future career choices are too few.
We used to think that children like sports and don't study well, what will happen in the future?
In this book, we need to look at it, discover more of the child's strengths, to explore the children's preferences, and develop into specialties. We parents want to give our children more support.
For example, our children like badminton, let the children now start to learn more, exercise more, go to find a professional coach to learn, the child can take the route of professional badminton players. Such a career is also a good choice.
2 Encourage children to have goals, they must identify and study hard
Like sports, which is a good thing. But just like sports, interested in not acting is not enough. We need to learn with a deeper interest and make children study harder.
In this book" Fun Career: What Can You Do When You Grow Up? For example, when doing sports analysis, children need keen insight, children need to not only like sports, but also learn a lot of professional sports knowledge, as well as computers, big data analysis.
If children regard the things they love as the work of the future, then they must study hard now. When children have clear goals, they are motivated and will naturally work harder to learn.
Such planning allows our parents to understand the future direction of their children, and also to make career planning for their children in advance, so that children can take many detours and play a role in doing more with less.
3 No matter what profession, there must be skills, qualities and goals
Everyone has their favorite career, from this book "Fun Careers: What Can You Do When You Grow Up?" ", we see that it is the perfect profession for children, and we parents can also make analysis charts for our children like in the book.
Analyze your child's personality traits and how do you get along with people? What temperament is there in the child, what skills the child is good at, and so on
We need to understand the child more comprehensively and give the child a clearer and clearer goal. No matter what you do in the future, it is important to maintain curiosity about your work, patience, self-confidence, etc. These good qualities are important.
As a parent of the workplace, they also have some understanding from the book, and at the same time, as a person who has come over, they give their children more suggestions and opinions.
If you also have sports-loving children at home, then you can take a look at this book and from now on, let go of prejudice.
Children who like sports can engage in many related occupations in the future, but our cognition is limited. There are 25+ careers in this book that give us insight into the occupational characteristics of various occupations, and what are the criteria we need to meet?
We parents and children read together, understand these industries, motivate children to study well, so that children have a clearer goal for their future, and strive for future careers.