Describe harassment as insistence on pursuing love, who is concocting children's "poison"?
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Zhongqing Review
For children's extracurricular "reading recipes", parents carefully select and do a good job of parent-child reading, which also helps to "demine" in time.
"What I lost was freedom, what I won't lose was love for you!" This is not a spoof of "earthy love words" in a short video, but from a book recommended for children under the age of 12. What is eye-popping is that the plot setting of the story is also very "ruinous three views": the boy who shouted this sentence harassed the girl he liked and was violent, but when he shouted this sentence in court, the girl was suddenly moved, and the two lived happily together. The story teaches us that "if we persevere, we will achieve the desired results," the book says.
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According to a recent investigation by a reporter from the "Rule of Law Daily", this kind of children's books that make parents and children feel strange appear in the market from time to time: some so-called "brain teaser" books present content that is not conducive to children's psychological growth such as "the reason why no one was injured when the plane fell from the sky was that they all died"; Some distort history, such as the previous series of historical books "A History of China Written for Children", there are illustrations that are obviously inconsistent with historical facts such as "Ding Ruchang's surrender map"; Others openly promote false values such as violence, discrimination, and comparison, which makes parents very worried.
In the process of children's development, the role of children's books should not be underestimated. Through stories and explanations, children's books not only undertake the function of moral education, guide children to know good and evil, know right and wrong, but also help them build a basic knowledge system, cultivate emotional ability and logical thinking ability. Considering that many minors do not yet have judgment and have strong imitation ability, it is very important to strictly control children's books to avoid works with unqualified content, improper views and vulgar taste entering the market.
It stands to reason that after layers of checks in editing, reviewing, reviewing, publishing and other links, it is not difficult to eliminate problem books. However, why are all kinds of strange children's "poisons" still common in recent years? This is probably related to the "virtual fire" of the current children's book market.
Some insiders said that today, children's extracurricular books are an important part of the publishing market. As of last year, nearly 550 of the more than 580 domestic publishing houses had been involved in the children's book publishing business.
Under the fierce competition pattern, the market derives a impetuous atmosphere such as blind seeking speed, following the trend of publishing, emphasizing marketing rather than planning, etc., some practitioners lack basic professionalism and selection ability, and do not have the patience to polish their works, but instead engage in marketing, and blindly compress the production cycle, so that the due process specifications are useless. In this process, illogical content, low-meaning stories, obviously problematic illustrations, etc., become a "fish that slips through the net". In the long run, it will inevitably lead to the situation of "bad money driving out good money", and it will also bring a crisis of trust to the entire industry.
In this regard, how to guide the children's book market towards a healthy competition of quality and content through more powerful industry norms and regulatory measures deserves further consideration. When the author searched for cases, I found that after some problematic children's books were discovered, they were only required to be removed from the shelves, which may leave a lot of risk exposure to the children's book market. Because, as long as there is considerable profit margin for the "book fighting" routine similar to playing the edge and blindly seeking speed, then a book is taken off the shelves, and they can concoct more books in the same way. Only by raising the cost of violations of laws and regulations and seriously pursuing responsibility for problematic children's books can publishing houses be forced to strictly abide by professional processes and ensure the quality of publication.
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In addition, the lack of unified standards is also an important reason for the current mixed children's book market. As experts have analyzed, there is a significant gap in the acceptance of words and pictures among different age groups. Explore the establishment of a scientific graded reading system, according to the physical and mental development and cognitive characteristics of different ages, set up reasonable reading classification, can make the entire market more standardized, and help children find more suitable reading materials.
Of course, for children's extracurricular "reading recipes", parents carefully select and do a good job of parent-child reading, which will also help to "demine" in time. Many parents bluntly said that in the face of a wide range of children's books on the market, they often have a feeling that they don't know where to start. Many times, it is just to look at the waist seal recommendation, watch the advertising push, and then "passionately" place the order. In this way, it is easy to fall into the "marketing trap" and even accidentally buy problem children's books. When choosing a book for their child, parents first browse roughly and make a simple "back tune" to the publishing house, author, planning team, etc. in advance, so that they are more likely to choose a trustworthy high-quality children's book.
The process of parent-child reading is actually an opportunity to enhance communication with each other and exercise children's thinking ability. Since minors' minds are not yet mature, their thinking can easily fall into the dualism of "right or wrong" and "good or bad". For the same story, parents encourage their children to discover the complexity of the problem and cultivate their spirit of questioning, which will undoubtedly allow them to gain more. At this time, even if it is found that the child accidentally "mistakenly" enters the problem reading, parents can guide in time to reduce the harm of "poison".
Written by/Ren Guanqing
Editor/Huang Shuai
Produced by China Youth Daily · China Youth Network