In the experiment, 50 successful people were selected, and they all made outstanding achievements in their respective industries. At the same time, 50 people with criminal records were selected and sent letters to them, asking them to talk about their mother's influence on them. Two letters are very touching. One is a celebrity and the other is a prisoner in prison. They are indifferent to the same thing. When I was young, my mother told them stories about apples.
The prisoner who is serving his sentence in prison wrote in this letter that when I was a child, one day my mother brought several apples of different sizes, red and green. I took a fancy to the reddest one at a glance and liked the biggest one very much. I know it must be delicious, so I want it very much.
At this time, my mother put the apple on the table and asked me which one my brother and I wanted. I was about to say the biggest and most popular one when my brother beat me to it. When the mother heard this, she glared at her brother and scolded him, saying, "A good boy should learn to give good things to others, and don't always think about himself." So I had a brainwave and changed my mind and said, "Mom, I want the smallest one. Leave the big one to my brother. " Mother was very happy, kissed my cheek and gave me the biggest and reddest apple. I got what I wanted. From then on, I learned to lie and cater to others. Later, I learned to fight, steal and rob, and do whatever it takes to get what I want. He has been sent to prison until now.
Successful people wrote that when I was a child, one day my mother brought some apples, red and green, of different sizes. My brother and I are both fighting for the big one. Mother took the biggest and reddest apple in her hand and said to us, "This apple is the reddest and reddest, and everyone wants it." Good, now let's have a competition. I will divide the lawn in front of the door into three parts, and each of us will be responsible for trimming it. Whoever works fastest and best has the right to get it. "
The three of us competed to weed, and as a result, I won the reddest and biggest apple.
I am very grateful to my mother, who made me understand the simplest and most important truth. If you want what you want, you must strive for the first place. She has been educating us like this, and she has done the same. In our family, everything you want must be won through competition, which is fair. What you want, how much you want, how much effort and cost you have to pay!
Although I didn't write the above story, I felt deeply after reading it. Combined with real life, how many mothers can educate their children as well as the mothers of those celebrities in the article?
Finally, I hope all parents in the world will have good ways to educate their children. They should not blindly ask their children to adapt to their own methods, but should use their own methods to encourage them to go their own way.