The Ministry of Education officially issued the "Compulsory Education Curriculum Plan", from September 1, the labor class will officially become an independent course in primary and secondary schools, and primary and secondary school students will learn to cook! Related topics quickly rushed to Weibo hot search.
Parents and students who heard the news boiled over. So, what are the effects of learning to cook from an early age on a person's growth? What is the difference between the post-80s and post-90s generations who have cooked rice from elementary school and those who have not learned to cook?
"Zero" hands-on ability to make an omelette was madly "ridiculed"
△ Che Shilu fried eggs
"Is this your fried egg?" Hahaha..." With the crazy "ridicule" of friends, Che Shilu, who lives in the Dadukou district, gambled and ate the omelette. But the omelette seems to be uncooked, and it seems that the salt is unevenly sprinkled, half too salty, half too light.
Speaking of why she failed like this, Che Shilu wanted to come and go because she had not cooked rice when she was a child, other housework would not be, she would not wash her socks, and even in the sixth grade, she would not tie a ponytail. Poor hands-on ability, weak skill base, so grow up to cook a meal on a whim, and do not dare to have the luxury of "color and fragrance" at all, just to be able to swallow and fill the stomach.
Che Shilu is 29 years old this year, when she was a child, her father went to work and her mother did business. But no matter how busy her parents were, they wouldn't let her do housework.
"They say, you don't need to do housework, just spend your time doing housework studying. In addition to studying, my parents also enrolled me in some interest classes, such as painting and taekwondo. Che Shilu said.
When friends in the class occasionally learned that they didn't have to do anything at home, they were envious. However, such happiness soon began to take a turn. At the age of 18, Che Shilu went to college abroad. Although she didn't have to cook, her "zero" hands-on ability made her miserable. Socks can not be washed clean, can only wear a dirty pair to throw a pair, will not change the duvet cover, each time can only ask others to help.
"I feel like in my first year of college, I was sloppy all over my life." Che Shilu said.
Because he can't cook rice, he usually relies on takeaway to eat. In the past two years, Che Shilu was forced to pick up the spatula and start cooking. Originally thought that simple steaming, stir-frying, to their own hands will make a mess, boiling noodles can be boiled into a pot of paste.
"I personally think that not cooking will make life a lot less pyrotechnic, sometimes cooking a meal on a whim, although the cooking is not delicious, but the process is actually very healing, can make people calm." 」 Che Shilu told reporters that in addition, through years of observation of herself, she found that she easily wanted to rely on others, and she did not know whether this was a "sequelae" left by her childhood.
None of the crafts of the older generation have been inherited
Zhang Xuan, 27, a native of Neijiang, Sichuan, now works in Chongqing's Nan'an District. Regarding things like housework and cooking, he can be said to know nothing and can only rely on his wife.
"My parents were a bit doting on me when I was a child, and they didn't let me do housework, and I only had one memory of cooking." Zhang Xuan recalled that time his parents had a dispute over something and did not cook. In order to fill his stomach and make his mother happy, he started to cook.
At that time, Zhang Xuan cooked a "boiled cabbage". It was the first time he cooked, and he didn't know how to get it, so he took a pot of water, and then the water didn't boil, so he threw the cabbage down, and then put some salt and MSG, and then started the pot. Brought to the table to call my mother to eat, and as a result, my mother laughed after taking a bite, saying how there was no oil at all...
In my memory, my mother was a capable person, skillful, and could cook a lot of traditional flavors. For example, use the jar to make kimchi, make sausages, bacon, fried crispy meat for the New Year, and wrap rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. Grandma's generation, with more tricks, will also use yin rice to make a small snack. And these crafts, Zhang Xuan did not inherit all of them, which made Zhang Xuan feel very sorry.
Now, Zhang Xuan is married, and he is also very distressed to see his wife busy, so he began to learn to cook and do housework with his wife. Thinking back to those lost crafts, Zhang Xuan would even learn to make them with his wife watching videos on the Internet.
"Looking back now, I think it was still necessary to learn to cook and do housework when I was a child, on the one hand, to pave the way for my future life, on the other hand, to pass on a lot of craftsmanship." Zhang Xuan said that now that his child is about to be born, he does not know what he can teach his child.
Started cooking in elementary school and realized "freedom" in diet.
△ Luo Juan cooked the dishes
Luo Juan, a full-time mother after the 80s, usually takes care of her daughter at home, she told reporters that she has been a child who can cook since she was a child.
"When I was a child, my parents were very busy at work and had to work night shifts, so I started trying to cook rice and noodles shortly after I started elementary school." Luo Juan recalled that when she was about the third grade of elementary school, she would eat below and learn skills such as cooking porridge. After the beginning of junior high school, I learned to stir-fry again, the first dish I learned was green pepper meat shreds, and then gradually the craftsmanship became better and better.
"By then, my cooking skills had surpassed that of my parents, so much so that I would cook Chinese New Year's Eve meals." Luo Juan said with a smile that her best skills are sweet and sour fish, green pepper beef shreds, cold vermicelli, fried crispy meat, stewed pork rib soup and so on.
Speaking of cooking skills, Luo Juan said that this skill is indeed very useful, exercise and cultivate their own life self-care ability, go anywhere will not be hungry, the biggest gain is to feel that they have achieved "freedom" in eating.
"Whatever you want to eat, you can make it yourself." If you can't cook rice, you can only eat the food made by others, and if it is difficult to eat, there is no choice, which will be very painful. Luo Juan also gave an example, his father-in-law can not cook, as long as the mother-in-law is not at home, he is very painful, once the mother-in-law went to Shanghai to visit relatives for half a month, the father-in-law ate the family dumplings, and then can only eat steamed bread and biscuits.
Now, after the news of the Ministry of Education requiring primary school students to cook and cook came out, she agreed with it in her heart, she believed that this would cultivate her children's hands-on ability and self-care ability, and she hoped that her children could also master this skill as soon as possible.
What the experts say:
Labor education can make children self-reliant
Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said in an interview with the upstream news reporter that "knowing what you should do" is a very important awareness for the growth of every child. If you know that you should do it but do it, from the perspective of actual life, there are many adverse effects on your child's future.
First of all, learning to cook and stir-fry is a life skill that we commonly use, of course, in addition to the necessities of life, there is also the cultivation of awareness and ability. Obviously, it is the child's own doing, such as sorting out the school bag, doing housework, washing clothes, etc., all of which are helped by the parents to complete it, in fact, it deprives the child of the opportunity to grow independently, resulting in the inability to cultivate the child's autonomy, independence and due sense of responsibility. This is a very important part of the growth experience, if the child is not exposed to it from an early age, then the ability to develop independently is missing.
Xiong Bingqi believes that there are still two misunderstandings in parents, the first is the reason for "reading well for children", requiring children to spend all their energy on learning, thinking that doing housework is a waste of time. Such a way will cause children to grow up not to love labor, ignore labor, oppose labor and learning, and produce wrong ideological judgments.
The second is "parents are used to dominating children", this part of the parents think that helping children to complete all the housework is to prove that they love their children, but also think that children's lives are "inseparable" from themselves, which is also a very wrong idea, such children can not grow independently, and may eventually become a "giant baby".
Xiong Bingqi said that as a guardian, the most important thing is to cultivate children to become a self-reliant person. Although the topic of discussion is only simple things such as cooking rice and stir-fry or doing housework, the education of children is not limited to this, but the understanding of children's growth, the understanding of family education, any other education can not replace the education of the family, our ultimate goal is to cultivate children to form good habits.
And we see that in the future workplace, the better people who develop are people with autonomy and self-discipline, rather than people who wait for others to help them do things.
Upstream journalist Fan Shengqing Fu Dixi intern Ji Jialin