Mr. Matsui has always emphasized that picture books are not books for children to read by themselves, but books for adults to read to children.
Even if children can read on their own (most of them just know the words in the book), it is better to read them to them before and even after elementary school.
This has a very positive significance for enriching parent-child life and establishing interpersonal relationships with each other.
Children's reading life begins in early childhood, and in order for children to understand the charm of the world of books, it is best to start with picture books.
For all children, a picture book is not a book to read, it is a book to be read by others and they receive the language with their ears.
Books that are unusually interesting, which are not often found in adult literature, but are quite a lot in children's books. In order to experience this fun, it is best to let your child read the same book over and over again.
Picture books are books that adults read to children. Between the ages of 3 and 6, children who have already learned the "joy of books" will never leave their hands for the rest of their lives.
One of the ways to accompany with high quality: parent-child reading
Parent-child reading activities in the family are not only a key to promoting children's intellectual development, but also an important link to promote parent-child relationship and promote children's social development.
Children's life experience is still very limited, and it is difficult to understand the content of the story by reading picture books by themselves, at best, they just follow the text, while adults have rich life experience and reading experience, and can interpret picture books in depth.
If you want to increase children's vocabulary and cultivate children's language and reading skills, the most important thing is to let them hear rich vocabulary in the process of growth.
If we read picture books to children with love and convey the true meaning of the book and our own feelings to children, this kind of verbal experience and spiritual communication cannot be experienced by children when they read books by themselves.
Therefore, the value of picture books varies from person to person, and the value can be large or small, and the impact can be deep or shallow.
Picture book illustrations are the earliest pictures that children come into contact with, and they can guide them to discover the beauty and fun of drawing, which is a pleasure that cannot be experienced by reading text-only works.
Picture books also provide children with more opportunities to experience their imagination, and rich imagination is not a gift, but is directly or indirectly experienced, and the more experienced, the richer imagination becomes.
Each book presents a different world, and only those who are exposed to a variety of picture books can have a rich experience to generate more outstanding creativity.
Parents use their own mouths to speak these words to their babies sentence by sentence, just like sowing the seeds of language one by one.
When a seed takes root in a child's heart, an inseparable bond is established between parents and children.
Reading to children is like traveling to the land of stories with children, holding hands, and sharing the same happy time full of warm language.
Even after decades, we still cherish these valuable experiences and fond memories in our own way.
Children and adults pay attention to different forms of reading
Picture books do not have any "use" for young children, they are not used to learn things, but to feel happy.
Children's thinking development is in the stage of intuitive visual thinking, so there are many differences between their reading psychology and that of adults.
This is mainly manifested in the following ways: adults mainly read textual materials, while young children mainly read intuitive and vivid picture materials;
Adult reading focuses on the internal logical connection and practical meaning of the material, while children's reading focuses on the interest of the material and the vividness of the picture.
The purpose of adult reading is to get something useful from the material, while the purpose of reading for young children is to have fun from the process of reading;
In the process of reading, the content of the material is constantly changing, while young children prefer to repeat the content that they are already familiar with.
Adults like to read books that are inspiring to their own development, while young children like fairy tales that are humanized and anthropomorphic.
It's not enough to love your child, you have to make your child feel loved
By putting your heart on your child and reading picture books to them sincerely, you can also understand how your child feels about picture books.
Reading picture books to children is the best way to communicate between parents and children.
Even toddlers want to see the real thing.
First, before the baby is seven months old, he must be made aware that someone loves him.
Second, learn to see, hear, move nearby objects to your side, and turn over and other simple actions.
Third, protect your child's natural curiosity and encourage him to play it.
Rudolph believes that when a child is born, the most important thing is breathing, sleeping, and waking;
When children reach the age of three, the cultivation of their willpower becomes more and more important;
When they reach the age of seven or so, they should pay attention to the cultivation of their vitality.
One father said of his relationship with his children:
I have a 5-year-old child who is in kindergarten, and every night before going to bed, I always hold his hand and read to him.
What a happy thing it is for a child to read to him every night, this father must have a great influence on the child, and this child may never forget the father who reads to him for the rest of his life, as well as the father's warm hands.
It is precisely because of the warm language of living every day that babies become "people".
We know that if a baby grows up in a wolf pack, it will have wolf nature, and if it is raised by an ape, it will grow into a monkey that does not understand human language.
Parents use gentle caresses and words to nurture their children and nourish their hearts, while picture books are responsible for sowing the seeds of vocabulary into the soil of the soul one by one.
When the seed takes root in the child's heart, the intimate relationship between parents and children is established that cannot be severed, and what really brings parents and children together is not the household registration book or birth certificate, but the gentle, humane language.
An Italian educator said: "It is not enough to love children, they must also feel love".
Picture books are a bridge that allows adults to talk to children through picture books, so that adults and children can feel each other's love. ”
We undoubtedly love our children, but whether this love is felt by our children is another question.
Reading to children is a way to make children feel loved, and children who grow up immersed in the world of picture books must be happy.
Write to the end
Mr. Matsui's contribution to the promotion of picture books and children's research is self-evident, and more importantly, he broke the myth of adults about "innocent and cute" picture books, and sharply pointed out the problems in the theme and expression of picture books from the perspective of commercial society and adults.
In the final analysis, for children, after many years, he may forget the content of picture books, but the warm memories and spiritual growth brought to him by picture books are a source of happiness that can be cherished for a lifetime.
A child's greatest assets are health, affection and language.
If someone hugs him tightly and speaks to him in a gentle voice, the child will be able to feel affection through skin-to-skin contact and verbal communication.
When children fully experience this feeling, their hearts will be enriched little by little, and they will become a person with a full heart. Among them, the influence of language is the most important.
At the end of the book, the old gentleman said with emotion:
For a person, what is true happiness, what is the meaning of life, and what should people live by, this storybook after story book has made the answer clear in different ways.
Reading with children is not about reading, picture books are just a way to the heart.