I believe that vacation is a time to combine work and rest, cultivate personal interests, relax and expand your horizons. For children, a fulfilling and meaningful holiday does not mean rushing to various cram schools or immersing themselves in exam homework and exercises all day long. It means passionately embracing nature, actively experiencing the big society, and happily reading classics. .
For such a meaningful holiday, parents need to create conditions to realize it.
1. Respect children’s interests and hobbies
Most of today’s children have one or two favorite extracurricular activities. If your child has many interests and hobbies that he cannot take care of because he is usually busy with studies, the child should be allowed to spend more time on his interests and hobbies during the holidays. If parents can respect their children's interests and hobbies other than reading during the holidays, their children's initiative and curiosity will be well cared for, and this motivation will generally extend to their own learning. It seems to be a waste of the child's time, but it actually stimulates the child's ambition.
2. Let children experience the joy of reading
Teacher Zhu Yongxin has a famous saying: "A person's mental development history is his reading history." He also pointed out that before the age of 14, A person's critical period for reading. Therefore, a child's spiritual growth history cannot be separated from the company of good books. Since he is usually too busy studying and does not have much time to read extracurricular books, holidays are just a good time. But I suggest that this kind of reading should not be too overly technical, and should not force children to write reviews or take reading notes. There are many good books that, as long as the children really read them carefully, their impact on them will be subtle. There is no need to memorize or copy them by rote. Of course, this depends on each person's reading habits.
3. Encourage children to broaden their horizons
During the winter vacation, there is a very important traditional festival, the Spring Festival, which the Chinese people attach great importance to. We can learn about Chinese folk culture and Spring Festival customs in various places with our children. Families with conditions can also take their children to places where traditional customs are better preserved.
Traveling is not only a way to relax, but also a very good way to broaden children's horizons. Although the winter vacation is shorter than the summer vacation, if you can arrange a trip of about a week and let the children design their own travel plans, arrange food and accommodation, etc., it will also be a growth for the children. In addition, if you can find some social practice or part-time opportunities for your children, it can also enhance your children's knowledge and understanding of society.
4. Let children increase exercise
Outdoor sports and physical exercise are also very important activities for children during the holidays. Nowadays, children who grow up in cities tend to stay at home during holidays. If they are not studying, they will either watch TV or play games.
It is quite meaningful to get out of the house and engage in outdoor sports and exercise. It can also prevent children from gaining weight too quickly. A school once made statistics and found that the main culprit was after the winter vacation. When the weather is nice, let your children go out for more activities, run around, play and sweat.
5. Don’t neglect winter vacation homework
Of course, children still have important homework tasks to complete during the holidays, so we should not ignore them.
It is also recommended that parents help their children draw up a holiday arrangement plan before the holiday begins. If conditions permit, you can also refine it to a daily schedule. Don't disrupt your child's biological clock just because of the holidays, and don't make your child's work and rest time too different from usual times.