The children in China are all wrapped up and dressed like a small bucket in winter. Look at children in Australia. They often wear less clothes than adults. In the weather of more than ten degrees, they still wear short-sleeved shorts and often run barefoot in the yard at home. Some parents in China think that they are not as good as Australian children, and their genes are different. Is that really the case? Whether it is true or not, even parents in China admit that their children are more likely to get sick and catch cold than local children. However, some China friends who have lived in Australia for a long time are slowly daring to let their children wear less.

feed

Australian friends will never understand why the children of China families are all 3 or 4 years old and are still fed by adults. If you go to a restaurant and meet a family with children, this situation is even more obvious: every family in China has an old man, sometimes more than one or two, plus young parents and a child. Sitting at the table, at least one person should be responsible for feeding. Often one adult says to another after eating, you eat and I'll feed it. If it is always fed by an adult, then this person will generally not eat anything. When Australian families eat around the table, they will put their children in high chairs, put something that children can eat on plates, and even grab a prawn or hollow powder for him. Adults don't care. They should eat when they should eat and chat when they should chat. Of course, a child of a few years old must be eating backwards, with his hands all over his face, but he is usually overjoyed and particularly cute. In Australia, children usually eat by themselves after they are two years old, and their parents don't feed them at all. Moreover, there is no old man to help the couple.

go on foot

I often see a little guy stumbling around my home or in the mall but in high spirits, usually one or two years old. Australian parents encourage their children to walk by themselves, even at home. Adults do what adults do, while younger ones wander around by themselves or play with dogs. The most typical scene of China family is that two or three-year-old children are passed from one adult to another. For example, when cooking, I often hear my mother say to my father, hug me, I'm going to cook. There is an old couple who take care of their grandson in Australia. This grandson is very strong, in their own words, just like a "weight". Grandma often complains that her arms are sore because she holds her grandson all day, and finally she gets "tennis elbow". But at that time their grandson was over two years old! When going on holiday, the difference is obvious: Australian children run on the ground, while China children are held by adults. If you ask an adult, China friends will say: How can such a small child walk so far?

play

After talking for a long time, it is estimated that readers don't need me to elaborate, and they will know that Australian families and China families are different in letting their children play. With my parents' friends in China, what I hear most is "Don't do this!" "Don't touch that!" "Don't go there!" "Look out!" Eyes are tense. Once playing in the backyard of a friend's house in China, their two-year-old boy ran to the faucet in the yard. There is a small plastic bucket under the tap, which is filled with water. Mom immediately said, alas, don't go there, it's dangerous! What puzzled me at that time was that I didn't know what danger a small bucket of water only reaching the child's knees would bring to the child under the care of two adults. Of course, it is not only dangerous, but also wet and dirty, which parents in China think is absolutely impossible. Therefore, when many parents in China just sent their children to local kindergartens, they found it incomprehensible that the children there spent most of their time sitting in the sandpit playing with sand.

The author once passed a neighbor's house on a sunny summer afternoon and saw that the owner of this house was struggling to wash the car with a big sponge, and the car was full of big bubbles. What makes people laugh most is a little boy of two or three years old, with blond curly hair, a round belly and nothing on, holding a small sponge dipped in soapy water and struggling to wash his little bike. There are more bubbles on him than on his car. Both of them are serious, and neither of them cares about the other.