This is an essay by Li Sizhe, a first-year student of Chengdong Primary School of Zhuji Experimental Primary School Education Group, and won the first prize of Bingxin Literature Award in Primary School Group.
Li Sizhe was seven years old. The winning composition is only 107 words (excluding punctuation). The full text is as follows:
"Some time ago, my mother went to Hangzhou to study for a long time, maybe a month. Today, my mother finally came back from Hangzhou. I am very happy! Because mom's arms are warm, because mom is back, dad's birthday will be better, because mom will read to me at home. ...
"When my mother is not at home, I miss her very much and miss my mother's feeling, which is a feeling of crying."
You may think this article is nothing after reading it, but the judges think it is extremely innocent. For a 7-year-old child, the composition written is not a composition in the usual sense, but the child is "talking", but the author truly expresses the warmth and joy brought by "mom is back" and his own feelings and experiences.
The innocence of children is the key to the success of the article "Mom is Back", which is exactly what many contestants lack. Among the primary school students' compositions received by the jury, there are many excellent and voluminous works, but they lack the childlike innocence and childlike interest that children should have.
Experts pointed out that with the accelerated pace of life, family education and school education now emphasize competition unilaterally, making children more and more precocious and shorter childhood. Many parents are busy enrolling their children in various classes to cultivate their children's specialties from an early age. Although children have become "top students" with profound knowledge and outstanding artistic expertise, they are not childlike.