After the "double reduction" policy is implemented, how can children who are no longer entangled in various homework tutoring classes spend a meaningful weekend? Some children made a choice, they picked up garbage bags, followed the footsteps of volunteers, and walked into the mountains... The public welfare activities have made them understand nature, tempered their will quality, and become the "big classroom" of children's education outside of school.
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Hike 10 kilometers up the mountain to carry down 8 bags of garbage
At 8:00 a.m., 10 children followed 26 members of the Qingshan Volunteer Team of the Jingxi Shanshui Ancient Road and set off from Wangping Village in Mentougou. "Our end point is the Melon Meadow Scenic Area, more than 10 kilometers along the way!" All the garbage left by tourists on both sides of the mountain road should be taken down the mountain. The little clock walking at the end of the line said, picking up a plastic bottle on the side of the path.
Because the youngest team member is only 5 years old, the team does not go fast. Halfway up the mountain, it was raining lightly, the road was wet and slippery, and the procession was moving more slowly. Captain Yu Youjun asked the team to stop, see that each team member was dressed in a raincoat, and then arranged for every 3 adults to protect a child, and then continued to hurry.
"Oops!" While crossing the creek, 5-year-old Wu Jiayi accidentally stepped into the water. The socks and half of the legs were wet.
"Is it cold or not?" The mother who was following the little girl asked painfully.
"I'm okay." Wu Jiayi, who jumped on the stone road, stomped his feet and said a word, and ran into the team.
At 10 o'clock, the volunteer team walked 6 kilometers to the waterfall. This is where tourists usually stop, and it is also one of the places with the most garbage: in the distance, you can already see scattered paper balls, plastic bags, water bottles, lunch boxes, fruit peels...
The 10 children were divided into groups of two. In the tree pits, among the weeds, they pulled the garbage out of the muddy water little by little and put it into the garbage bags. In order to pick up a plastic bag under the mountain ridge, 12-year-old Zhang Yuxuan was lying on the ground holding the roots of the tree, and the muddy water stained the legs of his pants, and he just smiled. On the nearby hillside, his younger brother Zhang Yuang dragged a large garbage bag around, collecting the garbage that everyone had picked up.
"Awesome!" The volunteers' encouragement made 7-year-old Wu Xiaochen find fun. Every time he saw a piece of garbage, he shouted with great joy that he had won another prize, shouting and trotting with other children to pick up the garbage.
In less than an hour, the garbage picked up by 10 children was filled with 8 large plastic bags.
"Everyone still has to walk a few kilometers to carry the garbage down the mountain..." Yu Youjun said, "After the 'double reduction', there are more children who are willing to follow us to do public welfare, the oldest of them is 15 years old, and the youngest is only 5 years old." ”
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Public welfare has become a big classroom for children's growth
"After the 'double subtraction', the child has more free time. Watching TV, playing computers, playing games, we can't control it at home..." Grandma Qu Jianying thought, so that the time on the weekend in Wu Xiaochen was all wasted on playing, or find something meaningful for him to do! Qu Jianying brought his grandson into the volunteer team, and unexpectedly, the first time he participated, Xiao Xiaochen liked this activity.
"Look! This is the millipede, which, when shocked, rolls its body into a ring, loves to eat scavengers, and sometimes damages crops. Volunteer Song Yuanyuan said that as soon as she walked into the mountain, she popularized the animals and plants seen on the road to her children, and the public welfare trip became a vivid nature lesson. Xu Zitong listened carefully, learned, and also learned about many animals and plants other than textbook knowledge, such as scorpion grass, millipedes, and stone dragons.
Speaking of the feeling of participating in public welfare activities, Xu Zitong directly called out "fun, come later".
"In the past, there were a lot of cram classes and there was a lot of pressure to learn. Now well, there is time to play on the weekend, walk into the mountains, get close to nature is really relaxing, the body is getting stronger! Last time, the community organized a walking competition, and I also won the fifth place in the children's group and the second place in the parent-child group. Xu Zitong said proudly.
"It's really tiring to do public welfare, and my feet hurt." Zhang Yuxuan said, "But as soon as I saw that the ground was full of plastic bags, pieces of paper, and cigarette butts, I was in a hurry, and I couldn't let people see that the home was full of garbage, dirty and dirty!" Moreover, I was satisfied to see the mountains and forests that we had cleaned up. ”
"Since Ke Xin was more than one year old, I have taken her to the park and community to participate in public welfare activities. Today, 5-year-old Ke xin has accumulated more than 700 volunteer hours, and she has also developed the quality of not being afraid of suffering and tiredness. Mother Lu Xiuhua said.
Seeing the changes in the children, parents said: "The previous little sloths and little fat mounds have changed." Since August, they have only participated in a few public welfare activities, they have become brave, they also help everyone carry things when they participate in the activities, and now it is not a problem to hike ten kilometers. ”
"After the 'double reduction', there were small volunteers signed up for the weekend public welfare clearance trip, and at most there were more than 50 children." Captain Yu Youjun said that in the activities, children are changing, parents are also changing, from as an outing, to save resumes for further education, to dedicate love and responsibility wholeheartedly, this is nature - the power given to us by this social classroom.
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Walking into the public welfare classroom is the best choice
Liu Yonghe, an expert in child education, introduced that after the "double reduction", children's remedial classes were less. Especially on weekends, a lot of free time also leaves a blank space for children's lives. How to fill this gap, whether to play computers, play games and waste, or do something meaningful, has become a topic in front of parents.
It should be said that in addition to the most basic coursework, letting children enter the community and integrate into society is undoubtedly the best choice, so that public welfare becomes a "big classroom" outside the school for children, understanding nature, understanding society, improving ability, forming correct values, and cultivating them into people who are willing to contribute to society.
Yu Youjun also suggested that children do not have the ability to carry out volunteer service and public welfare alone. Therefore, organizing children to participate in public welfare must be active and prudent, and do what they can. Whether it is a family, school or other voluntary group, organizing children to participate in public welfare activities must be carried out under the premise of ensuring safety.