Watch this wonderful movie with your children during the summer vacation to make them love reading!

Some time ago, \”Rainbow\” became popular on the Internet. This real-life documentary was shot in Hong Kong more than ten years ago. It is still very touching today. In this era, few people should doubt the authenticity of knowledge changing destiny, but they still doubt the feasibility of knowledge changing destiny. I think the real cases in the film can bring a lot of inspiration to parents. I have collected this series myself and plan to show it to my daughter when she is older. For children, although the reality presented in the film is cruel, it helps them deeply understand the essential meaning of studying hard. This society severely punishes people who cannot read. \”The Rich and Poor\” is a real-life documentary that invites some social elites, such as CEOs of listed companies, rich second generations, lawyers, etc., to participate in the program over the course of a week. , to experience the life of homeless people, sanitation workers and other low-class people. The essential value of reading is that it gives people bargaining power. Some people may refute: \”In this society, there are many people who have not read books and still live a good life.\” This is actually a question of probability. There are certainly people who have never read a book, struggled in society, and finally succeeded, but it is definitely not a common phenomenon. Take a look at the chart below: Statistics from the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve illustrate the relationship between the educational attainment of the most educated person in the household (over 40 years old) and the proportion of household net wealth over $1 million. It can be seen that the difference in absolute wealth is much more shocking than the difference in income. The proportion of millionaires in families with a master\’s degree or above is as high as 30 times that of families with a high school degree! The average salary is only the \”threshold meaning\” of studying. The documentary tells us with cruel reality: In addition to being closely related to social access thresholds, the more essential value of reading is to give people bargaining power, from having no choice to being able to choose. From the people in the film who are struggling for survival, you can see that poverty is not the most terrible thing. What is even more frightening is the state of hopelessness, helplessness, and no more spiritual pursuits. Living a life without hope is like a document locked in a mezzanine, day after day, coming and going in a dead end. \”We have no choice.\” is the simplest summary of this living situation by Abel, who lives in a cage house. Time and energy are consumed countless times in daily life, ranging from daily food prices to high housing prices. When people have to spend a lot of time to survive, they have no energy to think about the future, and even rest is a luxury. Tian Beichen was very sad: After experiencing it, I realized that many people not only want to have dignity, but also have no chance to ask whether they have dignity, because they have no skills and can be replaced at any time, and they have no bargaining power. Not having the right to bargain in life is the saddest thing. Because I have no choice, I can only keep turning like a gear in a cycle without seeing any future. The difference between \”having a choice\” and \”having no choice\” is of more reference value to middle-class families in cities. To a large extent, children from middle-class families are unlikely to engage in physically strenuous and low-reward jobs in the future. But this does not mean that our children will not fall into a \”cog-like\” life without choices. In fact, withWith the increasing competition and the development of artificial intelligence, if you did not study hard when you were young and did not acquire sufficient reserves of knowledge, skills, and thinking and cognition, the possibility of being exhausted and struggling to survive in the future will be higher, not worse. Low. Image source: The movie \”What is Home?\” You don\’t even have to wait until the future. From the time your children are in elementary school, every life node will reflect the difference between \”having a choice\” and \”having no choice.\” In primary school, if children cannot handle the most basic homework, under the pressure of the real environment, how can they have more time and energy to choose learning other than textbooks, develop interests and hobbies, or upgrade their thinking and cognition? When it comes to primary school, junior high school and college entrance examination, it will become more realistic. Every screening is a cruel hierarchical division. After graduating from college, whether you choose a job or whether the job chooses you is closely related to your accumulation over the years. Most of these accumulations come from the books you have read. When enough knowledge is transformed into a higher level of understanding than ordinary people, you will have the right to negotiate. I don’t know if anyone has the same feeling as me: when I was a child, I didn’t really understand the meaning of reading, and I wasted a lot of precious time. It wasn\’t until I graduated from college that I suddenly discovered that the world is a powerful combination, and it is placed in front of you – tall and majestic. You want to find a way to its core, but you find that it is tightly connected. You can\’t find the key and can\’t open the door, so you can only linger outside the door. This feeling is so powerless, I don’t know where my future life will be, and I can’t even find a direction even if I try hard. Every day, I can only go back and forth in 996 with no choice and no choice. Fortunately, I read a lot of books carefully in those years and gradually understood that the world has laws and can be analyzed. As long as you change your mindset and work hard, you can get the key to the core of the world. Therefore, now I will work hard to learn parenting methods and try my best to guide my children to fall in love with reading and understand the meaning of reading. I just hope she can understand the relationship between reading and the right to choose life earlier. \”Hillbilly Elegy\” is a book recommended by the New York Times and the influential \”Times\”. The author J.D. Vance uses his own real life experience to tell how a child from an ordinary family can transcend class and gain the right to choose his own life. Vance said in the preface: The reason why I wrote this book is not because I have achieved any extraordinary achievements, but because although what I have done is very ordinary, most children from families like mine cannot do it. arrive. Now, when people look at me and look at my job and my Ivy League diploma, they think I\’m some kind of genius, but with all due respect, that theory is a bunch of bullshit. If my parents hadn\’t done their best to provide me with precious educational resources in an environment where resources were scarce, even my talent would have been wasted. And those kids my age who gave up on studying early are still stuck in Appalachia, Kentucky, not fully escaping drug abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma…Class mobility, in It is equally difficult in every country. for ordinary familiesFor children, reading is still the most effective way to change your destiny. It may not make you a winner in life, but it can save you from falling to the bottom. Finally, I would like to give a classic line from \”Stormy Harvard Road\” to us and our children: No one can bargain with life. If you want more choices, you have to work harder!