Labor plays an irreplaceable and unique role in the growth of students and is an important way to achieve sound human development. With the upgrading of labor education to a compulsory course in the compulsory education stage, labor education has "taken root" in schools. However, labour education is still seriously lacking in the family. How family education should allow children to discover the beauty of labor and experience the joy of labor is a difficult problem to be solved.
"The child's success in the target school is our family's top priority, every hour of his time is precious, in addition to learning, he also needs high-quality relaxation and rest, how can parents let their children be distracted by chores?"
For Wang Li, a parent in Beijing, labor is the so-called "chores." Wang Li's son is facing a junior high school next year, so she saved up the Olympiad class and English class for her child, hoping to work hard this year and win several gold awards to make the resume "more beautiful". She showed the reporter the child's schedule, in addition to extracurricular cram classes and homework time, she also had to take swimming, cello and other interest classes. "Let the child sleep more in the morning, I get up and make him a nutritious breakfast; The child's clothes are dirty and put in the laundry basket, and I will wash them. The child's schoolwork is too stressful, and it is not too painful to be a parent. As for housework, it is not something he should worry about, and it will naturally happen when he grows up and needs to do it. ”
In the reporter's interview, Wang Li's views were recognized by many parents. They believe that children are burdened with excessive academic burden and pressure at a young age, and there is no time to work at home, and parents are reluctant to let their children work hard.
Mr. Deng, the parent, also held similar views to Wang Li. However, after her daughter went to college, every time she came home, she brought a large bag of unwashed coats and underwear for her mother to wash, ignoring her parents' busy figure at home, and never taking the initiative to take the handle, which made Mr. Deng feel deep regret for the lack of labor education before. "The child is an adult, the self-care ability is almost zero, he is particularly squeamish, and he wants to find his parents for help when he has something, and he is afraid that he will fall in the future."
In 2022, the Ministry of Education officially issued the Compulsory Education Curriculum Plan and Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition). Starting from the fall semester of 2022, labor education will become an independent course and upgrade to a compulsory course in the compulsory education stage. However, the reporter's interview found that in the eyes of some parents and students, labor is still insignificant.
It is difficult for children to improve their ability to work, and the main obstacles are excessive academic burden and excessive substitution by parents. Primary school students go to school to carry school bags and elders will not fold their own beds, middle school students will not wash their own laundry, do not clean up the dishes and chopsticks after meals, and the dirty and messy college student dormitory makes people unbearable to look at directly... Parents are all-encompassing, with the aim of giving their children more time to read and study. However, this inadvertently deprives children of a very important learning pathway, affecting the improvement of children's labor skills and literacy.
From folding quilts, cleaning to washing and cooking, these seemingly trivial and inconspicuous life skills are the first lesson for children to exercise themselves and experience the joy of work. Experts pointed out that the impact of deviation in labor concepts and low labor skills on adolescents is far-reaching. Children's lack of labor education does not allow them to improve academically, but will be deficient in personality and non-intellectual factors, and it is difficult to form a good sense of will and responsibility. Parents do not let their children do housework or other labor, their original intention is to love their children, but they inadvertently harm their children, so that children lose the opportunity to fully "learn as adults", and may become one-sided and incomplete people.
Labor education especially requires the coordination of home-school clubs, how can schools mobilize the enthusiasm of parents? In this regard, Liu Xiya, secretary of the party committee and chief principal of Chongqing Xiejiawan Education Group, believes that it is necessary to strengthen the publicity of the value and significance of labor education through various methods, so that the whole society, including parents, can form a consensus. At present, this is not enough, parents are more affected by further education and subject achievements. Secondly, school education should closely cooperate with family education, help parents understand the meaning and value of labor in daily home-school coordination and linkage, and give parents guidance on the methods of labor education in the family and community.
(Workers' Daily Yu Zhongning)