Parents let their children realize the value of labor from an early age, such as assembling bicycles, repairing small household appliances, doing simple carpentry, painting rooms, and taking part in voluntary labor outside. Even wealthy parents attach great importance to educating their children to live independently. In order to cultivate students' ability to adapt to social survival independently, some state middle schools in the southern United States also stipulate that students must earn a living independently for a week without any money before they are allowed to graduate. The slogan of American middle school students is: "spend money and earn it yourself!" " "No matter what the family's economic situation is, children 12 years old will mow their parents' yard and send newspapers to others in exchange for some pocket money. Some families also require their children to go out to do odd jobs, such as pushing harvesters in summer, sweeping leaves in autumn and shoveling snow in winter. American parents often say that as long as it is conducive to cultivating children's earning ability, it is worthwhile for them to suffer more. It is the worst thing for parents to spoil their children. There is a famous saying in Japan about children's education: Except air and sunshine are the gifts of nature, everything else can be obtained through labor. Under the guidance of this concept, many Japanese parents let their children do some housework in their spare time and work outside to earn money while educating their children to study hard. Work-study program is very common among Japanese college students. They earn their tuition by serving dishes and washing dishes in restaurants, selling goods in shops, being tutors and accompanying the elderly. When children are very young, parents should instill an idea in their children: "Don't give others trouble." When the whole family goes out to travel, no matter how young the children are, without exception, they must carry a small backpack on their backs. Parents said: "This is their own business, and they should carry it themselves." In a word, cultivating children's comprehensive quality, self-care ability and self-improvement spirit is the fundamental starting point of Japanese parents. In order to prevent their children from becoming incompetent, Swiss parents have paid attention to cultivating their children's spirit of self-reliance since childhood. For example, a girl of 16 or 17 was sent to a well-educated family as a servant for about a year as soon as she graduated from junior high school, working in the morning and going to school in the afternoon. By doing so, on the one hand, they can learn how to make a living independently, on the other hand, they are also conducive to learning languages. Because Switzerland is a multilingual country, it has both mother tongue areas, German areas and French areas. Therefore, girls in one language area usually work as servants in other language areas, and a considerable number of children are sent to British families as servants. When they master three languages, they can work in banks and other departments. People who rely on their parents for a long time to live a parasitic life are considered to be enterprising and shameful. Germany has always attached importance to cultivating children's characters such as "diligence, integrity, reliability, helpfulness and decent style". Therefore, parents never do anything for their children. They regard children as independent individuals and give them space to do what they should do independently. For example, when children are about one year old, parents encourage them to drink milk from their own bottles. After drinking, parents should also thank their children and praise them. With the growth of children's age and ability, parents will guide their children to accomplish some more difficult things. In this way, when they enter the society, they will not become mentally retarded "monsters" in the eyes of others. In Germany, not only parents pay attention to cultivating their children's sense of responsibility and self-reliance, but also the law requires it. According to the law, children 14 years old have to undertake some obligations at home, such as shoeshine for the whole family. Germans often say that their primary responsibility is to let their children know that a person will ultimately depend on himself, on himself, on himself and on himself.