Nannan’s story丨Family preschool education

01

This afternoon my daughter sent me several messages about Nannan’s preschool education. Since Nan Nan was born, she has neither attended early childhood education nor attended many interest classes. She has only studied dance for half a year. She has also stopped dancing recently because she has to practice lowering her waist and doing horseback exercises every day. We are afraid that she will get injured, so now she has switched to painting and goes to the Guangzhou Children's Palace for two art classes every Saturday afternoon.

My daughter and I once reached a mutual understanding. In the kindergarten stage, Nannan was allowed to travel more and see more of the world, gain experience while playing, and let the children have a golden childhood. We believe that nature is the best teacher and is more conducive to children's growth than interest classes.

02

But recently, Nan Nan’s mother can’t sit still, because in the past two weeks, Teacher Lin from the kindergarten reported in Little Footprint’s report that Nan Nan is not bold enough and confident, and her temper is a little bit... impatient. Teacher Lin is very attentive, and I also noticed some changes in Nan Nan. Sometimes she said she was shy and dared not express herself. Sometimes she would cry if her demands were not met, or even curse people and throw things. What is the reason for this?

After learning, there is a little girl in Nannan’s class who has taken many interest classes, including no less than 6 courses ranging from English painting and singing to Taekwondo, piano and language arts. This girl named Aqi is bold and confident. Nannan admires her very much. She often says in front of me that Aqi is very powerful and can do everything. She can sing English songs, tell jokes, and can run faster than others. She used to queue up at Nannan Behind, now Aqi always competes for the first place.

Nannan also told me that she and Aqi are good friends, saying that the teacher asked her to help Aqi because she has a bad temper and sometimes beats and curses others. I'm really worried about such playmates, because children have strong imitation abilities. They may not learn the good things, but they can pick up the bad things as soon as possible. But Nannan admired her little friend Aqi and liked to follow her around.

03

Is there any way to make Nan Nan more confident? I think that on the one hand, we need to start adding some extracurricular knowledge to Nan Nan so that she can feel confident and confident. On the one hand, parents should give her more time to accompany her and give her enough sense of security. I do not advocate going out to study in classes. It is best for the daughter and son-in-law to teach her themselves. The reason is that studying abroad is expensive and requires a lot of time on the road. Parents can teach me and I can spend more time and company with my children.

My daughter said that we can teach it ourselves, but we need to have a fixed time, a fixed place, and a fixed process to develop a habit, rather than just fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. That is to say, there must be a complete period of solidification time, which is set to be half an hour after dinner or before dinner every day, and it is unbreakable. Also use her Barbie or doll as a classmate to attend class together.

04

My daughter made a preliminary teaching plan in a message on WeChat and divided the work. She asked her grandpa and grandpa to teach her to recognize Chinese characters, practice calligraphy, and learn oral composition from Monday to Thursday. My parents teach simple math and simple English on the weekends. Wow, good guy, you have to put a heavy burden on me again. I have multiple jobs, can I handle it?

The set of Oxford English for children that my son-in-law bought for Nannan finally came in handy. Classes will start this weekend. It remains to be seen whether preschool education for families is feasible.