关于家长要不要让小孩子参加家务劳动
Underlying the rapid economic growth is a much higher living standard which leads and enables current parents to take care of their children much better than previously. Some parents thinks that, since the priority of their kids is study, their kids should not take part in any household tasks which is not necessary. In my opinion, the above statement oversimplified the relationship between household tasks and education. A more balanced belief should be emphasized on this problem. Participating some household tasks based on parents’ careful strategies is beneficial to the children’s growth. Here are my reasons. First, daily life experience should be considered as an essential part of education. I admit the students’ main responsibility is to acquire knowledge. However, this responsibility should be based on the basic daily life experience. Suppose a young adult who never takes part in any task in household arrives at a college. How could he/she confront this alien world without any help from their parents? In other words, this young adult’s education is not a comprehensive one. Qualified parents will not complete everything for their kids, such as washing dirty cloth, but rather teach children how to live independently through appropriate house tasks. Obviously those living skills will not fall out from a tree and hit their kids on the head, when their kids stand in front of the dormitory in which they have to live by themselves. So the education of household tasks should not be postponed and neglected. Secondly, household tasks could provide many opportunities to family members’ communication, especially between parents and their kids. Some parents and children commonly assume that the household task is unutterably boring and waste time. However the deleterious effects of household task could be alleviated by the household task itself. Let’s take a commonplace occurrence: Kids immediately dig themselves into piles of books after dinner, and their parents merely wash dirty disks in kitchen room. It is really tedious. In contrast, parents and their kids participating household tasks together could make atmosphere vivid. In so doing, children could talk with their parents about variety of things such as making friends, field trips, and even academic courses; and parents could give their kids some advices and their own experience. In this harmonious atmosphere, household tasks are not boring anymore, on contrary, it is beneficial and educational. In summary, household tasks should not be neglected from children’s daily life. It is beneficial and imperative to them.
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