There is a well-known story about Mencius in China, which is the story of "Meng Mu's Three Movements". Mencius was a very clever man and one of the saints in the Warring States period, but that was because he had a holy mother. When I was a child, there was a slaughterhouse next to his house, so when I saw others killing animals, I imitated it when I got home and began to catch some small animals such as frogs, cats and dogs to kill. Children will imitate everything, good or bad.

So when Mencius' mother saw that her children were influenced by their neighbors and developed such bad habits, she was moved by Mencius and said, "This place is not suitable for my children." She is really a virgin. Her family is not rich. I think she is alone. Her husband is not around. She may have passed away. She earns money by knitting alone to support her children.

At that time, her family was poor and the money she earned by weaving was very limited. Even then, she sacrificed time, energy and money to support her children wholeheartedly. In ancient China, moving was not an easy task. No transportation, no help, only mother and son. Can you imagine how difficult it is? Later, she moved to a nearby place.

But not long after, she found that her children always cried when they came home every day, imitating some funerals and funerals. Only then did they find that their home was close to the funeral home where Mencius studied. So she said, "This place is not suitable for my children." She moved again, this is the third time, and finally she moved near the school.

Confucius and saints were taught in school, and then Mencius came home, acting like a saint, with the demeanor of a scholar and the thinking of a saint, very polite, elegant and noble, so Mencius' mother said, "Ah! This is my child's place. "

2. Stop the machine and teach the children

Mencius went to school when he was older. He said, "I like going to school!" " "He likes to be like others, like a learned man. One day, for some reason, he hated going to school, but the teacher scolded him, or his classmates were unfriendly, or he was lazy, or for other reasons, he skipped class and went home to sleep, and didn't want to go to school again.

That day, his mother tried every reason to persuade him to go back to school, but he just refused. He is stubborn. At that time, Mencius' mother was knitting a piece of silk. Seeing that Mencius was so stubborn, she picked up scissors and cut the silk she was knitting. Then she asked Mencius, "Can we still use this cloth now?" Is it still useful? "

The child said, "Of course not! Why did you break it? Why do you want to cut such a good piece of cloth? " Mother said, "It's just like your studies. It's no use if you don't continue to study hard. If you give up halfway, all your previous efforts will be wasted. If you give up halfway, it will be useless. "

We do the same thing and continue every day. Otherwise, even if the past is beautiful, the future may be beautiful. If you give up halfway, it will be incomplete and incoherent, and then you will encounter some difficulties, obstacles or unsatisfactory things in your life. We can't expect things to be as simple and smooth as we wish. When the situation requires, we should know how to choose and learn to be strong, but we should be witty in handling things, otherwise we will encounter many troubles in life and never grow up.