Today
May 1, 2022,
It is a holiday for all working people
- Labor Day!
Gorky said that labor is the source of all joy and all good things in the world. Labor creates human beings, labor creates the world, and labor creates the future. The laborer is great, the laborer is glorious, and the laborer is the most worthy of praise. On this laborer's festival, salute all the laborers in the world!
Speaking of labor, judging from the current situation, labor education has not done a very good job in family education.
Many parents have a very classic saying: "As long as you read the book well, everything else is left alone." In other words, as long as you study hard, moral education and physical education are nothing, and labor is not something that needs to be mentioned.
Objectively speaking, parents can understand this cognition, but no matter how many reasons there are, parents still have to figure out the significance of labor for their children's growth. Understanding the meaning, parents will actively let their children work and fall in love with labor.
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Labor, lay a good foundation for the child's life
Enhance the feeling of labor, experience the hardships of labor, share the joy of labor, master labor skills, develop labor habits, improve hands-on ability and ability to find problems and solve problems - to achieve these goals, to a large extent, parents' understanding of labor education.
Labor education is not only the need of children's future life, but also the need for children's future survival, and it is also the need for better development of children's lives.
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Labor begins with doing housework
Labor can start with doing housework.
The earliest form of labor for children is housework, and parents should at least instill in their children the awareness that "I am a member of the family, and I have to do housework".
Primary schools and kindergartens arrange too few opportunities for work inside and outside the school, and the "labor" of children is mostly integrated into daily life.
There is self-rational labor, such as cleaning up school supplies, sorting out housework, washing small clothes; there is housework, such as helping the kitchen, cleaning the room, and managing plants at home.
From an early age, cultivate children's labor awareness, hands-on ability and labor habits in small things, which is the advantage of tutoring that schools do not have, and "life is education" is fully reflected in housework.
Parents should remember that "working for children is actually depriving children of the right to grow."
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The benefits of labor are innumerable
The benefits of labor to children are not limited to labor itself, labor education is not simply to teach people to work, its deep-seated purpose is to cultivate personality, forging the spirit of not being afraid of fatigue and perseverance, perseverance from beginning to end. This is precisely the good quality that many successful people have. Any success is inseparable from the creation of labor, although the form of labor is different, the field is different, but hard-working, hard work is the same.
1. Labor can enhance parent-child feelings
There are a lot of housework or farm work is the need to cooperate with each other, mutual help to complete, such as planting trees, a person digging a pit, a person holding the saplings, a person watering, a person filling the soil, in this process, children and parents need to help each other to complete together, this interactive process, the process of completing things together, it is easier to establish a good parent-child relationship, and this is also a very important part of the child's practice of interpersonal communication.
When I look back on the wonderful experiences I had growing up as an adult, I think more about the things I did with my parents. The tasks that accompany each other and the challenges that are overcome together are the most memorable.
2. Labor cultivates children's independence
Whether it is to do some farm work in the field, weeding, shoveling, picking, or picking up branches, watering, planting trees, or doing household chores such as sweeping the floor, wiping the table, washing dishes, cooking, etc. at home, in the process of labor, children need to use their own hands, use their own bodies, and coordinate together. In this process, while improving life skills, children can also exercise hands-on ability, and slowly children can try to do what they can independently, reduce their dependence on their parents, and improve their independent ability.
3. Labor can enhance children's physique
In the process of labor, children need to mobilize their bodies to complete corresponding tasks. The increase in the amount of exercise in this process can promote the development of muscles, promote blood circulation, accelerate metabolism, improve the body's immunity, and thus achieve the purpose of enhancing physical fitness.
4. Labor improves children's ability to integrate feelings
Sensory integration may be heard by many parents, but it is not necessarily accurately understood, in fact, sensory integration is very simple, that is, a process of external input information, brain analysis and synthesis, and physical action.
For example, we have a water cup on the table in front of us now, we want to drink water, and then the eyes see the water cup in front of us (visual information input brain), the brain analysis synthesis gives the hand a command (the body performs the action), let the hand to take, that when the hand touches the water cup, the tactile information of the hand and the water cup at the same time accompanied by the eyes to see the hand grasp the visual information of the water cup once again passed to the brain, the brain analysis and processing after giving the hand a command, now you can take it over and put it to the mouth, Finally the mouth feels the hardness of the cup, feels the water and drinks it. This simple process of drinking water actually has countless processes of sensory integration, such as the eye seeing the input of the visual information of the cup, the tactile information of the hand touching the cup and the eye seeing the visual information of the hand getting the cup, the tactile information of the mouth touching the water, the esophagus and stomach feeling the feeling of water entering, these sensory stimuli are constantly input into the brain, and the brain continues to analyze and synthesize the continuous instructions to the body after comprehensive comparison, which is a process of sensory integration one after another.
Human sensations not only have sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, but also two internal sensations: vestibular and proprioception. The latter two internal feelings may not be familiar to many parents, but they are very important for children's attention. As we grow up, we learn that everything is the result of multiple sensory channels, multiple sensory integrations working together perfectly. Sensory integration ability is very important to the development of each child and to the learning of each child, and also deeply affects the child's attention, the organizational planning and orderliness of the child's doing. The only way to improve sensory integration is to increase the input of various sensory information, let the brain analyze and synthesize in a variety of exercises, and at the same time practice issuing instructions and giving feedback to the brain again according to the results of the body's execution of instructions. In this process of continuous practice and experimentation, the brain can continue to be exercised, and the more you use it, the smoother it is.
And labor is a great opportunity. In the process of taking on housework, the child is constantly carrying out sensory integration, which improves the child's hands-on ability, and also improves the ability of the brain and the body to cooperate with each other, that is, the ability of sensory integration.
For children in kindergarten and primary school, the ability to feel integrated even directly determines the child's attention and determines the child's academic performance in the classroom. Because sensory integration ability is equivalent to the basic learning ability, can accurately receive sensory information from the outside world, the brain can analyze and synthesize more efficiently, and can issue precise instructions for the body to complete, so that the basic ability is very important for the child's life.
Take advantage of the holidays, on this sunny day, take your children to nature to let go of the wind, take your children to climb mountains, hike, contact the flowers and grasses of nature, and also do some appropriate labor, increase sensory information input, and enhance the brain's ability in the process of parent-child interaction!
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