What happened to those children who took more than a dozen interest classes 7 days a week?

Text | Rice grain mom

The offline interest class in Beijing resumed for two weeks, and then stopped.

A friend of the rice grain mother bit her back teeth and said: The epidemic is really too delayed, many of the children want to go to classes have not yet been taken, and those who want to learn have not yet learned, and after this wave of epidemics, they must give the baby two classes.

Her daughter is in the second grade this fall, counting the number of english, there are already eight or nine classes, non-discipline piano, eloquence, swimming, tennis, ballet, painting...

Just when it was time to consider "breaking away", she went up against the current, and I was really convinced

Before school age, try more

I have always advocated that everyone, preschool age, take children to try various interest classes, this is not only a process of trying "right", but also a process of trying "wrong".

Children who have not gone to school, the time is relatively free, there is no burden of schoolwork, literature and art, sports, puzzles, and subject enlightenment can be tried one by one, and this time cost is affordable.

And preschool interest classes are indeed based on "interest", and children can adapt and transition well.

It's like learning English.

At birth, enlightenment begins, without a trace, and children naturally learn in English nursery rhymes, English picture books, English cartoons, and English grading.

What if the third grade starts with zero foundation? It is not that you can't learn, but the progress must have requirements, it is impossible to learn only a few English songs a week, tell a few English stories so simple, so the fun must be greatly reduced, many times children have to learn.

So the interest class can start earlier.

Maybe it is also because the current interest class is so interesting, a class is like playing, few children resist, so that they always give parents an illusion - the child likes it so much, if I don't give the report, is it delaying the child?

There are many parents around the rice mother, as long as the child nods, no matter how many W's a year, biting the back teeth on a word - report!

7 days a week, more than a dozen interest classes, after-school classes, the time is stuffed, just look at the class schedule is very full.

The number of english three main subjects, surely can not be less, right?

Physical exercise, steady profit, the more the merrier.

At least one instrument, now which child does not know how to play and sing?

Dance cultivates temperament, and temperament can not be lost.

I have to learn vocal music, and then I entered the choir and had many opportunities to take the stage.

Chess puzzle, the more you learn, the smarter you get.

Words are like people, the sooner they practice, the better.

Fine arts have to be learned, right? Far away, Meiyu has entered the middle school entrance examination, and it is convenient to do hand-copied newspapers.

Every sentence seems to make sense, but the rice mother has to tell you very responsibly that these interest classes cannot have chemical reactions together with the same child at the same time.

So back to today's rice mother wants to say, what happened to those children who attended more than a dozen interest classes a week?

Of course, it is constantly doing subtraction, subtraction, subtraction, until finally only one or two are retained, or even all subtracted!

Enrolling in classes is not being rich and willful

As far as interest classes are concerned, children are 3-6 years old and should really be tried and made.

But the rice grain mother said that there is a limit to the attempt, at least we choose a course, we must do our best to learn, to practice, to treat, so as to determine whether the value is worth continuing to learn.

Instead of simply and rudely, 4 years old to go to more than a dozen classes, not suitable, 5 years old to try a dozen classes, not satisfied, 6 years old to try more than a dozen classes, not sure.

Enrolling in classes is really not a matter of money and willfulness, more important than money, as well as the time and energy of children.

Many parents feel that as long as the child likes, as long as the child's time arrangement is open, interest classes, the more the merrier, more learning is always right.

This is not the case.

Almost every class is not as simple as one or two hours a week.

Let's talk about pianos, violins, these instruments. In addition to one or two classes a week, you have to practice at home every day, right?

The teacher will also leave homework, if the next time you go to class, do not meet the standard, the teacher is refusing to teach.

Just like when we take credits in the United States, if we don't pass, we continue to study, continue to study, continue to take exams, year after year.

Some Chinese students do not study, do not attend classes, play every day, and do not pass the exam. An international student whom Mirimoto's mother knew even took 4 years of undergraduate education for 8 years.

It doesn't matter if the school is willing to pay anyway, as long as the parents are willing to pay for it.

But who is the last to lose? Or is it that parents have wasted a lot of money and children have lost valuable time?

Speaking of returning to the interest class, it is the same, as long as you are willing to pay money, the interest class does not charge you, but the children of the same class, why is the final result different?!

The same teacher, learning the same content, the difference must be outside the curriculum!

It's not just instruments that need to be practiced daily.

Go, chess, these chess, but also to come to several games a day, learn the methods, moves, are in the process of playing with others, the more practiced the more skilled, otherwise it is a lonely learning.

Don't practice calligraphy? Studying with a teacher for an hour or two a week and writing a good hand? How can it be!

The teacher can teach the method, the teacher can do the guidance, but every stroke is written by the child himself, and this cannot be half fake.

Learn dance, learn martial arts, learn taekwondo, and practice at home on weekdays.

Unless you "deposit" the child to the interest class, just like a neighbor of the rice grain mother, who has a bad heart and cannot accompany the piano, directly let the child go to the teacher every day to practice.

Of course, the money is still spent by the mother, and the time is still used by the daughter-in-law.

Speaking of sports, sports interest classes, rice grain mother has always said that everyone must report at least one sports, sports are indeed stable and profitable, at least practice a good body.

But for example, in physical fitness classes, children who attend classes once a week and children who attend classes three times a week obviously cannot be equated with the effect.

Rice grain football is even more, not only on weekends to go to the club, Monday to Friday will also have two days to train, winter and summer vacations and training.

What does this mean? It means that other people's winter and summer vacations overtake in the corner outside the number of words, and the grain of rice may be more like a sports student

It's time! Either it's used here or there, and it's only 24 hours a day.

But what can be done? Since you have learned, you must learn well, learn without practicing, you are always running the dragon set, especially this kind of group sport.

So think about it, why doesn't the rice mother recommend that everyone report so many classes to their children at the same time?

Eat it all, indigestion, eat a bite of everything, really wasteful! It's not just money that's being wasted, it's also the time of the kids!

And in the end, it will also create an illusion for children - learning is only in the classroom; and children will develop a bad habit - to taste and stop.

Disciplines should be more cautious

The aforementioned interest classes are only non-disciplinary interest classes, if the number of words is English, then the rice grain mother can only add 10,000 "more" words.

After-school classes in subjects, we must be more cautious.

Previewing, attending lessons, reviewing, and practicing are a complete lesson.

Rice grain mother colleague Chen Chen family's little bean Ding has been on the monkey thinking, each class is indeed not long, 15-20 minutes, the child can also sit still, there are animations, there are teachers to explain, as well as games, exercises.

Finish a class with ease.

Even Xiao Dou Ding cries and shouts every time to learn, and when he wakes up in the morning, he will go to the little monkey, true love, right?!

But this 20 minutes is definitely not the whole of a class, after the class in the morning, Chen Chen will accompany him to do the paper version of the monkey supporting exercises in the evening, as well as a variety of supporting teaching aids, games, and play on weekends.

Of course, you can also choose not to do these exercises, but the result is that the children who have done consolidation and revision absorb 80%-90%, and the children who are lively in class only remember 20%-30%.

See you from above and below.

Before the double reduction, there were three friends around me, the child was about the same age, 4 years old +, the English foundation was similar, all of them started during the epidemic, and they chose the same course.

A year later, two of the babies are still afraid to speak, and one of the babies' spoken language is already quite strong.

I have talked to these friends and want to know what the problem is, is it a course? teacher? child? Or what reason...

Later, I learned that the biggest problem was outside of class.

Those two children who have not dared to say, the parents directly threw the baby to the foreign teacher, do not care about anything, the feedback of the foreign teacher does not watch, the child does not watch the class video, there is no preview and no review.

As for another child who has made progress in English rocket style, his parents take turns to accompany the class in the early stage, and even if the child can communicate with the teacher independently, they will also watch the lesson replay.

Before each lesson, not only take the child to prepare, but also mark down the content of this lesson, which may involve the child's interest, and send it to the teacher to help expand.

At the end of each lesson, after watching the replay, they will also give the foreign teacher a large paragraph of message feedback, while accompanying the child to review.

Friends said that when I take one-on-one foreign teaching classes, is it not for the sake of "exclusive" teachers, so that the teacher can maximize the value of English learning for my baby? How to maximize the value of not communicating with teachers, not preparing for review, and not sparring daily?

Our generation of parents, more or less will be a little compensatory psychology, they did not learn when they were young, want to let the children try more.

Of course, it is good to try more, but the rice grain mother feels that after trying, the interest class that stays must be guaranteed to be fine and not more

The interest class must be what the child likes, not the parents who induce it with various routines. Non-disciplinary interest classes, choosing to insist on learning, should consider more about the strengths, rather than making up for the shortcomings. Once you choose an interest class, parents must first ask themselves if they can insist, insist on pick-up and drop-off, and insist on sparring. (Like I belong to the idea of rice grains to practice, just quit the drum, just let him play ukulele, African drums, right to be entertained) interest classes are not necessary, rather than indiscriminate, if there is no suitable, you can free up time, weekend family climbing, camping, go to the park sketching, picnic, meet flowers and plants, visit museums, science and technology museums, planetariums, art galleries, cook together at home, chat, watch movies, play board games ...

Time spent with you, no amount is worth it.

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