But there is nothing so light in the world. Those so-called "little prodigies" rely either on their own super learning initiative or on their parents' good learning methods. Their achievements were not achieved out of thin air, but through their own efforts.
I met a colleague in an academic discussion at school. He talked about the parenting experience of a retired old professor in Tsinghua.
The old professor has a 5-year-old grandson who takes him to read books every day when he is free. After a long period of training, the grandson of the old professor has also become a "child prodigy" with thousands of literacy, super cognitive ability (knowing more than 500 kinds of animals and plants) and extremely quick thinking.
How to become a "child prodigy"? Because grandpa has always insisted on taking children to read "leisure books"
Some netizens may say that as an old professor in Tsinghua, he naturally knows which books contain a lot of knowledge, and he has taken his children to study since childhood. With Professor Tsinghua as a teacher, children can't be excellent.
But in fact, parents are wrong. The old professor didn't take his children to learn any cultural knowledge, nor did he read any textbooks and educational books, but only read some books that people thought were rambling.
Leisure books, that is, in the eyes of many parents, do not have the learning attribute of cultural knowledge, that is, extracurricular books.
Even many parents think that showing children "casual books" is delaying their children. It is good to have time to teach them to read and study, and reading "idle books" is a waste of time.
But the old professor proved by facts that according to the law of children's development, it is the best training method to choose "leisure books" of the right age for children. As long as the method is right and the books are chosen correctly, the children seem to be reading leisure books, but the effect of accumulating knowledge and cultivating good habits will be far better than reading those cultural and educational books.
A classic of mountains and seas for children is a "leisure book".
For example, the old professor prepared this set of Children's Classic of Mountains and Seas for his grandson, who liked it very much. When children are two or three years old, the old professor often tells them some stories in Shan Hai Jing. During the explanation, the children listened with relish. After all, the stories here are all adapted from the original version of Shan Hai Jing, which is full of fantasy and myth, which makes the children listen very deeply and establishes a good reading desire at that time.
Later, when the children began to study, the old professor often pointed to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the children slowly learned many words while listening to the book.
Someone wants to ask, why can children study with their grandfather with peace of mind?
Therefore, children will naturally cooperate.
Because Shan Hai Jing gives children rich common sense, children read day after day, accumulate a lot of knowledge and master a lot of common sense, which is very beneficial to their growth.
In addition, while reading Shan Hai Jing to children, children also learn correct values from some stories, establish correct concepts, and subtly improve their morality and manners, which is actually the influence of a good book on children.
When the professor's grandson was 8 years old, he was able to read Shan Hai Jing independently. Some people may ask, why do children read a set of books several times? That's because this set of books is worth reading for children several times.
You can never get tired of reading good books. Why not go back and forth for your good friends?
In infancy, parents explain the stories in Shan Hai Jing to their children, help them establish reading habits, and reap full benefits from parent-child reading.
In the pre-school stage, when I read this set of books with my children, the children learned a lot of words invisibly and established a strong desire to read. At the same time, I also learned some correct values, right and wrong, which broadened my horizons and enhanced my common sense.
By school age, children can already read Shan Hai Jing by themselves. At this time, children are still interested in it because it arouses children's strong thinking consciousness, and children begin to think about stories, myths, animals, plants and other factors in the book, or learn from them, or enrich their thinking, or harvest results. In short, Shan Hai Jing, as an ordinary course, is a book for children.
Some parents will question whether Shan Hai Jing is really that good for children. There's not much else. Let's see what's inside.
Covers more than 100 historical figures, so that children can subtly grasp the corresponding historical process, understand historical celebrities and enrich historical knowledge in the process of reading.
More than 300 waterways and 550 mountains have been collected, so that children can build a huge and magical geographical world in their hearts, be familiar with geographical knowledge and strengthen geographical connotation.
There are more than 400 kinds of monsters, birds and beasts, which enrich children's horizons and let them master more common sense, which can not only strengthen their own cultural heritage, but also strengthen their flexible thinking and ability.
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Children are growing all the time, and every hesitation of parents will delay their growth opportunities. Therefore, if you want your child to develop into a "child prodigy" in happiness, you might as well read "light books" to your child from an early age, because for children, absorbing knowledge extensively is the best shortcut to success.