When a person walks on the streets of Japan with a bag, you will see that all the children who follow their parents are carrying their own backpacks, their small bodies are carrying a lovely backpack, and some even have to carry their own kettles. Compared with those parents who go out with big bags and small bags in China, Japanese parents all think that it is necessary to train their children to "do their own things" bit by bit and exercise their sense of responsibility and spirit of hardship.
Children should also take part in sports meetings, and kindergartens also have sports meetings! ! But they are all fun-oriented, mainly with teamwork and physical coordination, regardless of winning or losing. So the sports meeting is to divide the whole kindergarten class into red and blue teams, and then play some cooperative games together. Basically, there will be no individual competition, and all teams are required to cooperate.
Education is teaching children to "laugh" and "thank you". The focus of Japanese kindergarten learning is actually "teaching children to smile and say thank you!" Although there is not much knowledge education, children can often make greater progress in music, art and reading through comprehensive education, which is really unexpected.
Family education Family education should mainly educate children's moral personality and promote the improvement of children's moral quality. Therefore, good family education is of vital significance to children's growth. Etiquette education In Japan, family education on children's etiquette begins at home, that is, family education begins when children are slightly sensible. First, parents should teach their children manners, bow and table manners, as well as some code of conduct that they must learn. For example, we often see Japanese bow; In Japanese families, children should bow to their parents, younger brothers should bow to their older brothers, and when children bow to their elders or people with higher social status, they can't raise their heads until the other side blows their heads.
Table manners are also a compulsory course for children. Japanese parents explain table manners to their children in detail from an early age. For example, they must wash their hands before eating, and after sitting at the dining table, they must first put their hands together and say "ぃただきます" (meaning "I want to eat"), but this "I want to eat" means receiving.
Perseverance education Japanese parents believe that most children who grow up in an environment with excessively superior material conditions lack perseverance. Therefore, they also pay attention to consciously exercising children's ability to bear hardships.
In Japan, kindergarten children wear short shorts to school no matter how cold it is in winter, and many children soon catch a cold. Japanese mothers think that "children are sent to kindergarten to make them sick." Over time, children have exercised their cold resistance and rarely have a fever or a cold. This is the perseverance education that attaches importance to cultivating children. This is a strange behavior in other countries. In fact, there are deep-seated historical and social reasons. In ancient Japan, the land was barren, the people were poor, and materials were scarce. Cotton and cloth were all luxuries, and some special habits of hard work were formed. In ancient Japan, they were not developed, and their cold resistance was an inevitable product. If you ask them if they are cold, they all say yes, but it is a custom to wear short skirts in winter. But on the way home from school, some girls will put their pants under their skirts. In Tokyo, the capital of Japan, the temperature in winter is almost the same as that in Shanghai. It is extremely cold and a few degrees below zero, mostly between 0- 10 degrees, but it is much drier than that in Shanghai. In addition to these, parents should also teach their children to clean up bedding, toys and cleaning from an early age. These seemingly trivial behaviors reveal the good atmosphere of a society. Similarly, Japanese children who graduate from kindergarten will experience the same solemn ceremony as those who graduate from university. The director, teachers, parents and children will dress formally and meticulously to complete the whole ceremony, and all kinds of ceremonies will accompany the children to grow up all their lives. It can be seen that instilling etiquette in children from an early age has played an important role in the cultivation of children.
I know that many kindergartens or early education institutions will hold graduation ceremonies now, but to be honest, every time I see mothers in a circle of friends sharing photos of their children wearing small clothes such as caps and gowns, I really can't see the relevant ceremony, creativity or preparation process. People feel that China's kindergarten graduation ceremony only pays attention to the gorgeous form, but forgets the original intention. This is really a photo sharing ceremony, which is of no help to the children's etiquette inheritance. In fact, there is nothing wrong with learning from foreign countries, but what's the point of learning from outside without curing the problem? Just as Rome was not built in a day, Japanese Wen Ya and politeness were not built overnight. Judging from the traditional education in Japan, they attach great importance to the inheritance education of etiquette. Nursery/kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, university, and finally society. And I will constantly improve and standardize my behavior in my social career. Everything is based on the premise of "not causing trouble to others". I will give priority to others' positions in everything and make my way of dealing with people as perfect as possible. Is education in Japan really that perfect? Of course not. First of all, there are many activities in Japanese kindergartens, which require mothers to spend a lot of time helping their children to participate, which is why most women quit after giving birth, and it is difficult to balance the workplace and family;
Secondly, there are many school bullying phenomena in Japan, as well as the so-called circle of friends of mothers, which is said to be divided according to the income level and class of husbands, and is not as friendly as we thought;
In addition, the study pressure of Japanese students is actually quite great. I remember watching a TV program. Japanese primary school students also have to attend many after-school classes, which is quite similar to China.
Therefore, we should be soberly aware that no family education method is 100% applicable, but parents can choose the method suitable for their children.