As a parent in China, I am also happy to attend classes, but I am too considerate and save me a lot of money.
First, the training class in kindergarten. Watching other people's children take part in dance training classes, I took a small class and went to the training institution to visit the trial class. So far, however, my first dance class is still fresh in my memory. Little people don't understand the teacher's simple instructions and often look back at me from the glass window. The teacher kept reminding her, but it didn't help. The teacher assigned each child a place with a butterfly sticker. The teacher told the children to put their feet on the butterfly, or it would fly away. At first, she stepped on it honestly, slowly, and always left the position unconsciously. When she finds herself displaced, she will secretly look at the teacher and slowly rub her ass back to the butterfly's position. So many times, she may find that the butterfly didn't fly away, so she completely ignored it.
After this class, I asked her if she wanted to take a dance class, and she said decisively, no! Although I did ideological work for a long time, she still insisted, and I raised the white flag. When she was in the middle class, several students in the class took part in the dance class. I thought the opportunity came and took her to the audition class. This time she agreed to take a class, so we began to take a dance class. However, we failed to persist. After only one year, after numerous requests, we gave up.
Give up the dance class, but be determined. She said, "I will never go again!" " "Before that, she failed to give dance lessons countless times, and I also did countless ideological work. I asked myself, why did she learn? Because learning to dance is good, you can exercise your posture? There are many performance opportunities to build character? But others also say that fitness, running and yoga are good, so should I practice them all? How would I feel if I was forced to do it just because I was good? Dance has been studied for a year, but during this year, she got many opportunities to perform on the stage. She also learned something and enjoyed it, but what she enjoyed most was the "seaweed dance" and "leg-shaking dance" she danced with her classmates in kindergarten. She said that she likes dancing, but she doesn't like dancing lessons.
So, I finally decided to give up! It seems that the decision is not in my hands. I should say that I accepted this decision from the bottom of my heart.
But we have been taking art classes at the same time, and we like it very much. She said her dream was to be an art teacher.
However, in sharp contrast to the dance class, I have been looking forward to the art class! And this result is naturally what she got after class. I have never done any guidance and ideological work.
Therefore, I believe that children have the ability to choose. Not all parents' insistence is right.
Looking around, children of the same age around me have signed up for several training classes, while I only attend art classes. Looking at me, I am often upset at home alone. Grandma can't calm down and always asks us to report to class to study. But I said, "I'm too busy to attend the training class." Asked what she was busy with, she said, "Busy playing!" "
After primary school, the former leisure has become a thing of the past, but I am busy doing my homework every day. At first, we didn't even have time to tell stories. After a period of adaptation and adjustment, we gradually have time to tell stories and play.
There are club classes in primary schools, which focus on cultivating children's other interests, especially artistic literacy. At that time, there were three favorite clubs, dance, roller skating and orchestra, but after asking one by one, they asked me, "Can you choose none?" Why is there no art? "Finally, she had to choose a violin that she knew nothing about. I advised him to choose the other two as backup, for fear of not choosing them. She replied, "If you can't choose them, you can't choose them. What does it matter? "So, all three of us volunteered to be violinists. I thought I would definitely not be chosen, but the school made great efforts to form a band, so the children who chose the band were allowed to study, but they began to learn the violin.
However, another club is Happy Mathematics. I asked her how she chose it. No art? She said she didn't know either, but the teacher arranged it anyway.
In addition, the school also offers dance, chess and roller skating as general courses, which are given to every child once a week.
This, of course, has been learned in all interest classes. It should be said that so far, every kind of learning has enjoyed it, and the dance class is a bit reluctant, but it is not exclusive.
I am especially grateful to the school for offering so many general education courses and club classes. If not, I would never have attended these training courses by myself outside school.
Here I want to talk about my views on art education or training courses. I don't think there is an absolute standard for the number of training courses, but it depends on the children themselves.
I have some friends around me. The child was born a master of learning. No matter what training class, she is full of interest and enjoys it. As long as she is willing to learn, as long as time and money allow, it doesn't hurt to learn two more courses.
But most children and I shouldn't be like this. Why should our parents insist? Does every child have to know the piano? Does every child have to be able to dance?
Training is different from education. Training points to skills, which inevitably requires long-term training. Education points to appreciation.
Appreciation can be obtained by most people through education, so art education can be popularized, but it is by no means the popularization of skill training. Therefore, I think what our children lack is actually art education. This is not well done in training courses aimed at skills training. This should be included in the school teaching plan.
Of course, we can't change the school's teaching plan, but we can change ourselves. Taking children to see exhibitions, concerts and plays should be the best art education!
Of course, the words of one family are not enough for training, but also ask friends for advice.