Tong Yanwen, a 9-year-old boy in Haicang, Xiamen, became popular on the Internet overnight because of his five poems. Yesterday, the "little poet" had to put down the book in his hand because of the crowd of reporters, and he had planned to write 50 poems, saying fiercely: "I will never write poetry again." Tong Yanwen's mother said that her son's writing poetry was not the "norm", and he did not have much potential for poets before, he was just an ordinary child. (Xiamen Daily, May 18)
A 9-year-old boy, in the face of the crowd of reporters, fought back with "I will never write poetry again". The author had to think of the story of "hurting Zhongyong" in the middle school Chinese textbook: Zhongyong was able to compose poetry at the age of five and gave himself his name. However, it is such a "genius child" who ends up with the fate of "being ignored by everyone", which cannot be called a "tragedy". In the author's opinion, some parents "hope that the child will become a dragon, and the girl will become a phoenix"; the overheated attention and exposure of the "prodigy" in society and some media is the reason for the tragedy of "hurting Zhongyong".
As early as 2012, a "withdrawal application" from Zhuhai little prodigy Feng Shaoyi aroused the attention and hot discussion of the majority of netizens, Feng Shaoyi created his own serial novel "Spring Will Not Come Again" on the Sina Reading Network at the age of 8, and went to junior high school at the age of 10. But in 2012, when Feng Shaoyi, then 10, applied to withdraw from school, his father, Feng Yingang, said that the sudden change in the environment and psychological gap after middle school made it difficult for children to adapt. As early as 2002, a "prodigy" Wei Yongkang, who was admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 17, was dropped out of school at the age of 19 because of his poor ability to take care of himself.
The author believes that the excessive pursuit of "gifted children" by parents and society, coupled with the halo effect of the media on "prodigies", makes children who should enjoy colorful childhoods and receive "age-appropriate" education in school be bound by "fame and profit". In the education of "prodigies", we blindly focus on the cultivation of "seedlings and growth", blindly improve the "ability" of children, and ignore the psychological and life education of children, which is also the reason for the emergence of "hurting Zhongyong".
Back to the "little poet" Tong Yanwen, it once again verified the aura heat of the "genius child", and netizens were touched by the spiritual poem of "a seed bending the road, a new life" written by a nine-year-old child, lamenting childhood and the heart of a child. We have heard a lot of "prodigies" in real life, but often in "Yi people are strange, slightly guest their fathers, or beg for coins" and "day pull 'prodigies' around people, do not make learning", "obscure everyone".
The Soviet educator Sukhomlinsky said: "Every child is a poet by nature." We marvel at the rich imagination and spiritual flow of verses from children, but we do not know how to properly appreciate and educate these "little poets" and "prodigies." The author believes that when we are shocked and admired by the achievements of our children, we should not over-interpret these achievements, and should not "willfully" pursue and give excessive halos to "gifted children" and "little poets". Rational treatment of "little poets" and the return of their childhood as an ordinary child is the protection of the child's spirituality.
Text/Liu Li
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