We all envy those highly educated parents because they are knowledgeable and reasonable, but more often than not our parents are not highly educated and do not study. What impact does this have on their children? Parents who don’t read raise children who don’t read. One time I went to my cousin\’s house and found that there was not a single book in the huge house. My cousin said that his parents usually don’t read books, and their daily entertainment is watching TV, so there is no need to buy books at home. After that, my cousin laughed and said that he usually doesn\’t like reading. He watches TV with his parents every day or surfs the Internet in his room. Do you believe there are people who haven’t read a book in ten years? I didn\’t believe it before, but now I have to believe it. Some parents have not even read a book for decades. They can only rely on people around them and hearsay to understand things, and use limited knowledge to understand the world. Parents who don\’t like to read will raise children who don\’t like to read. During parent-teacher meetings, many parents complained that their children liked to watch TV and were glued to the TV every day while eating and brushing their teeth. The piles of books bought for their children at home were just like decorations. The teacher asked the parents one by one: How many books do you read a month? Many parents were immediately confused and hemmed and hawed, saying that they had no time as they had to make money and raise children. The final result was that less than one-fifth of the parents in the entire classroom had the habit of reading books on a daily basis. What is the current situation of reading among Chinese people today? The 14th National Reading Survey in 2016 showed that China’s per capita reading volume was 7.86 books, a significant increase from 4.58 books in 2015. But you know what? In 2015, the per capita reading volume in the United States was 50 books. In comparison, China, as the world\’s second largest economy, has a sluggish reading market. In China, the vast majority of parents do not read. Due to the limitations of the times, they were not able to develop the habit of reading when they were young, and many of them even did not know how to read. But in this era of universal learning, if you don’t like reading anymore, how can you confidently ask your children to read? Parents who love reading will raise children who love reading. Parents who love reading books help their children grow up. If parents don’t pay attention to their children’s learning, there must be many parents who will stand up and object: Why don’t they pay attention to their children’s learning? I work hard every day to pay for tuition, my child does poorly in the exam, and I chase him with a feather duster all over the sky, but I spank my butt so hard that I don’t even study. Who’s to blame? Many parents often think that they have invested enough energy in their children, but in fact they know nothing about their children. If the child\’s grades are always not as good as those of Lao Wang\’s family next door, it must be because the family is rich and has hired a group of tutors to teach the children in turn. But is this really the case? Later I discovered that parents’ scientific education methods play an important role in children’s learning. I once went to a friend\’s house who was a top student to have dinner, and I accidentally saw a thick book lying on the sofa. The writing was yellowed and looked old. A friend said that these were grade ranking books, and her father would help her analyze the data every time she took the monthly exam. I opened it and saw that it was indeed my friend\’s score, and there was a red pen drawing circles on it, pointing out which subjects had shortcomings and which aspects had improved from last time. veryIt is hard to imagine that these are written by parents who not only know all aspects of their children, but also have standardized analysis of the forms. Parents who love reading will grow up with their children. The most surprising thing was that there was more than one thick booklet, and there were also some educational experiences excerpted by her father from elsewhere. At that moment, I deeply realized that for my friend to become a top student, his father must have contributed a lot to it. In addition to these things, my friend\’s father\’s study also has a variety of Chinese and foreign books, and he has a considerable amount of reading. My friend often discusses various issues with his father in the study. Whether it was about life and study, or philosophical thinking, her father had no taboo at all about talking to only children. I suddenly remembered my own father. Faced with the child’s confusion, the most common thing he said to me was: If you don’t understand now, you will understand later. If I don’t understand it now, will I really know it later? In daily life, the most common sentence we hear is: Learning is children’s business, and parents don’t have to worry about it so much. If a parent with this concept is asked how his child is doing in his studies, he will be hesitant and unable to tell. He will only tell you whether it is good, not bad, or so-so, because he doesn’t even know what the child’s score was in the last exam. Parents who don\’t study are busy with dinner parties, while parents who love reading are busy with studying. Paying attention to children\’s learning is not as simple as making money to pay their tuition. You also need to set a good example. As a parent, with the diversification of knowledge channels in the times, one day your children\’s knowledge reserves will far exceed yours. Reading can keep your ideas from falling behind the times, and at the same time help you understand your child deeply, discuss and learn with your child, and accompany him to make progress together. No matter what time it is, reading is the best way for parents and children to communicate. Parents who do not study are often eager for quick success. Reading changes your destiny is a familiar saying, but not everyone thinks this is true. At a drinking table, I saw a drunk man saying to his son: \”Studying is useful – fart! No one wants college students now, why don\’t you shamelessly ask me to give him a job? I have no education and I still give college students a job.\” Salary!\” He asked his son to inherit the family business and become a small boss early, so there was no need to waste time studying. In this father\’s opinion, the purpose of studying is to make money. If there are better ways to make money, there is no need to continue further studies. They pass this idea on to the next generation: it is better to earn money as soon as possible if they don’t have enough education. Nowadays, it seems that only those whose destiny has been changed by reading will be extremely convinced that reading can change their destiny. I think of Shen Wenyu, a former genius boy: he learned piano at the age of 5, passed CET-6 at the age of 6, could play all Mozart\’s sonatas at the age of 8, and taught himself the \”Piano Divine Comedy\” Rachmaninoff No. 1 with CDs at the age of 11. Three Piano Concerto, won the second place in the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Belgium at the age of 17, and the first place in the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition at the age of 18… He is known as \”one of the Three Musketeers of Chinese Piano\”, along with the other two It\’s Lang Lang and Li Yundi. Unfortunately, he was destroyed at the hands of his father who was eager for quick success and controlling. Shen Wenyu studied in Germany when he was 11 years old. It was not until 2005 that his father forced him to give up Hannover, Germany.The university degree suddenly returned to China. This year became a watershed in his musical career. The reason for returning to China was that after listening to his performance, his father said that he was already at the master level and no longer needed to study. In fact, his father didn\’t know much about piano. He just thought that Lang Lang had already achieved fame and fortune, and his son could do it too. So Shen Wenyu, who was still studying, returned to China and was forced by his father to participate in competitions again and again, and finally disappeared from everyone. Parents who are eager for quick success will destroy a genius. Parents who think that studying is useless and it is better to make money as soon as possible are actually the culprits who destroy their children with their own hands. In the era when they were born, people could start from scratch without any education, and everyone was profiting from speculation, which gave people the illusion that they could make money without studying. The most terrifying thing is that they pass this concept to the next generation: it is better to earn money as soon as possible than to study. However, when I go to the job fair today, academic qualifications are the stepping stone to a job, and knowledge is the weight of the stepping stone. These parents don\’t know how many possibilities their children have lost due to their eagerness for quick success. In this era, reading is the cheapest way to acquire knowledge, and reading is not just for children. I have the following suggestions for reading: 1. Don’t let busyness become an excuse not to study. According to surveys, Chinese people still have a lot of entertainment. Most parents spend enough time sitting in front of the TV to read one book every week, and they can read at least 50 books a year. 2. Don’t let cultural barriers become the reason for not studying. There are so many types of books on the market today that anyone who knows how to read will definitely find a book that suits them. 3. Be a person who has the habit of reading. Reading is not only about passing on habits to the next generation, it can broaden your own horizons instead of just relying on the people around you and hearsay.
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