Jin Jin’s grandmother is a kind and gentle old lady who has been engaged in early childhood education for a long time. She patiently helped us solve the mystery of Jin Jin’s growth. She said: "Any child, as long as he holds a pen, will draw a few random strokes. The same is true for Jin Jin. She started to graffiti when she could hold a pen. On the walls, cabinets, sheets and pillow covers of my house, There are traces of Jin Jin's paintings. I really wanted to scold or slap Jin Jin's little hand, but my daughter took the opposite approach.
The Princess of Four Seasons
She kissed Jin Jin. He said, "My little baby, your painting is great. What did you paint? It's a blooming morning glory!" After saying that, he hurriedly gave Jin Jin a piece of white paper and a colored paintbrush, and encouraged Jin Jin to paint again. Jin Jin happily painted a few more strokes, and my daughter immediately named each painting: 'Ballet Dancer Resting', 'Melody of Flowing Water', 'Trembling Old Man', 'Lonely Fallen Leaves'... ...one after another was hung on the wall, nailed on the bookcase, and a 'solo exhibition' was held for Jin Jin at home. Jin Jin was encouraged to develop a strong interest in painting, and 'masterpieces' continued to appear. A month later, our family publishing house published a 1-year-old painting album by Jin Jin. Jin Jin was so happy! He read the album over and over again, and became more motivated to paint every time. , he gave his own name and asked me to write it on the painting. Jin Jin started to draw the people and things around him when he was two years old.
“Jin Jin always draws as he pleases, and we don’t give Jin Jin any instructions. She was asked and given topics, and she was never allowed to copy other people's works. She painted entirely based on her own imagination and aesthetics. When Jin Jin was 4 years old, he pinned his vision of truth, goodness and beauty on the beautiful princess in the fairy tale world, and wanted to build a "princess kingdom without evil and deception". In this kingdom, everything can be anthropomorphic. Incarnate into princesses, such as 'Pig Princess', 'Snake Princess', 'Butterfly Princess', 'Cloud Princess,..." So far, Jin Jin has painted more than 6,000 princesses of various shapes.
“The development process of Jin Jin’s poetry begins with language. When she was two and a half years old, she was telling stories to her dolls.
Little Lazy Cat
Jin Jin’s uncle chose several ancient poems for her based on Jin Jin’s language development ability. After reading three or four poems, Jin Jin could not sit quietly After listening to the ancient poem, I couldn't wait to recite it to myself: "A big white horse with a bridle hanging on it. The master came to ride a horse, but he saw that the horse was missing." ’ I quickly took notes, bound them into a booklet, and wrote “Collection of Poems by Jin Jin at the Age of Three”. Jin Jin jumped up happily and shouted: "Oh! I have published a collection of poems!..." When he was 4 years old, his uncle read several modern poems to Jin Jin. He chose poems by Heine, Goethe, and Xi Murong and read them to Jin Jin. Jin Jin listened to it and just read a few poems. Jin Jin started to compose modern poems again based on her feeling and following the rhymes and patterns of modern poems. The first four poems included in "The World of Love": "Moon Night", "Trees", "Bed", and "Brother Little Deer" are all poems written by her when she was 4 years old. In order to encourage Jin Jin to recite poetry, we gave Jin Jin a nickname - "Little Poet" and bought Jin Jin a beautifully decorated hardcover notebook to record her poems. As a result, Jin Jin's poetry became more popular. "
Grandma said: "Our family members communicate sincerely, that is, they often sit together and talk, make requests gently, answer questions kindly, and point out shortcomings patiently. Jin Jin also communicated with us, making her feel like a member of this family and living in warmth. Jin Jin likes to ask questions during heart-to-heart conversations. When he was 4 years old, Jin Jin asked his uncle: "How big is the world?" "Why do things in the world have their own colors?" "Where do colors come from?" "Why are there so many people in the world? People and people." Why are people different? There are good people and bad people?’ We always encourage her to think about things. When she was 5 years old, she began to talk about hobbies, pursuits, and life. She often asked me, why does everyone love me? One time when she was talking to her uncle on the phone, she was very loud and scolding. Her uncle criticized her, but she refused to accept it, and both of them were unhappy. The next day, I wrote a letter to Jin Jin, to the effect that, Jin Jin, you often ask me why everyone loves you. Now I answer you, first of all, it is because you love everyone and respect everyone. If one day, If you don't respect others or discipline them, you will definitely hurt the other person's feelings, and then you will lose everyone's love for you. When my daughter read the letter to her, halfway through, she suddenly turned around and ran out of the house. Her mother asked her why you left without listening to grandma's letter. She replied, I can't listen to it anymore, I will cry if I listen to it anymore.
From then on, she paid great attention to her attitude and tone of speech, and cherished friendship and love.
“Accepting the influence of nature is crucial to cultivating children’s beautiful emotions and feelings of artistic conception. The vast nature has infinite magic for children, and we try our best to find opportunities to bring Jin Jin to nature. Go there and observe the leaves of different shapes and the various small insects, from the grass and ditches on the roadside to the mountains, rivers and seas of the motherland. There are countless mysteries for children buried in nature, and any kind of beauty will arouse them. A certain kind of emotion. Jin Jin is like this. Every time he takes her to play in a colorful world outside, it can arouse her thoughts and reverie, and trigger her emotional words. In a storm in the evening, she shouted. She said: "The earth is shaking and everything is disappearing." She walked in the light rain and felt that "everything in the rain is so light." One day, there was a heavy snowfall in Shenyang. As soon as she left the house in the morning, she fell into 2 feet of snow. On the pile, they kissed, hugged, and rolled around, and they were immediately immersed in the joy of snow, and recited a song "White Basket of Snow" on the spot. "
Jin Jin's mother further added: "The child. The world should be a fantasy emotional world. A person's imaginary emotions are the real core of aesthetic association. It is impossible for children to experience various real emotions in just a few years after they come to the world. This requires correct guidance and training. The emotions imagined by children."
This family often holds candlelight parties for Jin Jin. Under the dim candlelight, music is played in the black and mysterious room. Jin Jin is shrouded in this hazy atmosphere. Recite poetry and dance. The candlelight is blurry and soft, reminiscent of moonlight. It is full of artistic sentiment and illusion, which is fascinating. In this mood, Jin Jin immediately entered a mysterious realm, as if she had turned into an elf, immersed in fanatical emotions... Therefore, Jin Jin often said: "I am a princess who walked out of the moonlight." ”
The mother of the “little prodigy” advocates protecting her children’s nature
If you look at Jin Jin’s resume, she can undoubtedly be called a “prodigy”. Jin Jin started writing poetry when he was 3 years old, and published his first collection of poetry when he was 5 years old. Since then, he has published four collections of poetry and a fantasy novel. When she was 4 and 7 years old, Jin Jin held two solo exhibitions in Shenyang and Guangzhou. Her paintings have won more than ten national and international awards respectively. However, Jin Jin seems to be different. What makes it different? On April 23, Jin Jin’s mother, Ms. Wang Hongmei, revealed to parents the secret of Jin Jin’s success.
“Jin Jin has been able to write poems and paint since she was a child. This is inseparable from the fact that I have always attached great importance to her personality development.” Ms. Wang Hongmei emphasized at the lecture, “Every child has Things in one's own nature, the nature of children is the most beautiful and spiritual in the world; if parents want to understand their children's nature, they should stand on the same horizon as their children before they can communicate. If the child's nature is compromised, the child will lose his understanding, spirituality and sense of beauty."
The impressive achievements of the child prodigy Jin Jin are directly related to his mother's correct educational philosophy. Having a rich imagination can enhance creativity, but surveys show that Chinese children's creativity ranks fifth from the bottom in the world. In fact, it is not that Chinese children lack imagination and creativity, but that the single educational method is out of touch with social reality, which leads to such problems. Real education is not about promotion and wealth, but about improving people's creativity. Only people with innovative ideas can lead the development of society in various fields. Therefore, cultivating children's imagination is the need of our entire era. We hope that through this lecture, more parents will pay enough attention to the cultivation of children's imagination.
Failure to protect children's nature will restrict their creativity
Parents say that the pressure of competition in society is so great now that if you only tell children fairy tales, then the children will live in fairy tales. In the world; but the fairy tale world and the real world are separated after all. If you use the survival rules of the fairy tale world to face the real world, your children will suffer in the future.
In this regard, Ms. Wang Hongmei said: "The real world is something you can touch, but the spiritual world is very big. Everything is alive in the child's spiritual world, and the leaves in the real world are green. , the leaves in the spiritual world change with your mood. If parents continue to instill in their children all kinds of social thinking and school thinking, and learn everything from others, their children will only be second-rate talents when they grow up, and they will always be just second-rate talents. Follow others.
I also emphasize that children have their own set of thinking and create their own things in their own fairy tale world. ”
Chinese parents always love to restrict the development of their children’s nature. Over-restriction is particularly prominent in only-child families. There are many “no, no, no, no, no” stored in the children’s minds. ——"We found that children between the ages of 0 and 3 are always geniuses. There are many more between the ages of 3 and 5, and they will become less and less after the age of 5. It's not that Chinese children cannot become geniuses, but that Chinese parents don't know how. To protect children's nature, teachers in many educational institutions always like to give children a frame to draw in, so that the child's individuality is completely lost. In such an environment, children are at a loss as to what to do, and in the long run, children will behave arrogantly or indecisively. Restricting children too much can easily imprison their intellectual development, create depression and a sense of inferiority, and constrain their exploration, creativity, and good personality. ”
Discover the genius side of children
“There are two extreme examples of educating children. One is to let nature take its course, without asking, without rules or guidance. This is definitely It’s wrong; another way is to have too strict plans for children’s life development. Although such children can endure hardships in the future, they will only become assistants to creative talents in the end.” Ms. Wang Hongmei pointed out, “Educating children should pay attention to letting them take their own course. Naturally, take advantage of the situation. Children are ‘powers’. Only after parents understand their children’s own characteristics and advantages can they give them a correct direction. On Jin Jin's growth path, I emphasized that there is only "one teacher". I do not want my children to be misled by other wrong educational concepts. I have always created a fairy tale world for Jin Jin, but the fairy tale world and the real world have never been derailed. Jin Jin’s fairy tale world not only contains Snow White and Prince Charming, but also a vicious queen and a terrifying big bad wolf; Jin Jin’s fairy tale world contains both justice and evil, truth, goodness and beauty as well as falsehood, ugliness and evil. In such a fairy tale world, Jin Jin's nature can be developed. ”
“When I was a child, I was like a boy. I loved playing with sand. My body and clothes were all dirty. My shoes were always filled with sand. I was very active.” Lu Qin, a youth education expert and close sister, said in an interview with the media, "But my mother never said why I was always so dirty. She just told me to put my clothes in the basin and wash them clean. I think I became better at painting later. Doing work is very creative, and it is often closely related to the games I played when I was a child. ”
“Children can experience and feel through seeing, listening, speaking, touching and other ways to cultivate their interests; professional game activities and situational experiences enable children to learn while playing. During the process, give full play to your imagination and understand various rules. This can not only give full play to imagination and creativity, but also distinguish between ‘something to do and something not to do’. The correct educational concept should be people-oriented. In short, we must follow the laws of children's physical and mental development, master scientific concepts of preschool education, abandon utilitarian thinking, and give children a happy and fulfilling childhood. ”