What our parents use to judge whether children’s paintings are good or bad is based on the appearance of real things in the objective world: an elephant should be the normal appearance of an elephant. How can we change the shape of the trunk? Is it particularly big or prominent? This perspective of judging based on objective facts is completely opposite to the self-centered perspective of children's painting. Therefore, it is completely wrong to evaluate children's paintings by "image-likeness". The negative impact of the evaluation of "Like Like"? Not only does it use wrong standards to evaluate children's paintings, but it also has a very negative impact on children's paintings.

First of all, it limits children’s imagination.

When parents always use “like” to evaluate children’s paintings, children will inevitably abandon themselves in order to cater to their parents and get high evaluations. He has a unique understanding of things and deliberately makes his paintings more like them.

For example, children originally wanted to draw a smiling face for the sun to express that the weather is good. However, in order to be consistent with reality, children cannot draw like this, and they can only draw a standard sun.

The children's paintings are quite similar, but those imaginative and personalized perceptions of things have disappeared.

Secondly, it affects children's interest in painting creation

When children are always evaluated as "similar", the children will deliberately make their paintings more similar. However, due to the child's cognitive ability and hand-eye coordination, it is impossible for him to be particularly similar to the painting in reality. Therefore, they may not like their paintings and feel that they are not good.

No one likes to be denied, so in order to avoid being criticized by his parents for not being good at drawing, since he cannot draw better, there is only one way, which is to draw less, or even not draw at all. If you don’t paint, of course there will be no criticism. Over time, children's interest in painting disappears.

Many parents send their children to painting training classes that teach imitation. They originally intended to cultivate their children's interest in painting, but after a period of time they find that their children dislike painting less and less. It is because of this kind of training. The class teacher mainly asked them to imitate other people's paintings. Even if children imitate, it is difficult to reach the level of the teacher's drawings. Therefore, they get a sense of accomplishment from this imitation painting. As time goes by, of course they no longer like painting anymore.

How should we evaluate children's paintings if we don't use "like or not"?

At this point, parents may ask: If we don't use "like or not" to evaluate children's paintings, what about children's paintings? To evaluate whether it is good or bad?

In fact, children’s paintings do not need to be evaluated by parents

Because children’s paintings are a completely self-expression. They are expressing their own inner feelings, not trying to please others. And painting. Therefore, parents do not need to comment at all, but just ask their children: What is the painting and what is it for? Listen to the child's description of the painting and feel the child's expression. This serious attitude is the greatest praise for children's paintings, and children will be more interested in creating more paintings.

So, for children’s paintings, just listen carefully.

So, if parents really want to evaluate children’s paintings, they can master the following principles:

1. More affirmation and less criticism

Because children Painting is a completely self-expression. We cannot use the eyes of bystanders to evaluate a child's poor painting, no matter how crude or ugly the painting is. Because from their perspective, these paintings can correctly express their inner thoughts, so they are all good.

Therefore, when parents face their children’s paintings, they should be more affirmative and less critical. Avoid damaging children's self-confidence and causing children to create to deliberately cater to their parents, which will lose the original intention of children's paintings.

2. Start with specific details

Be sure to be specific rather than general.

For example, some children ask their parents how their painting is, and their parents just respond casually, saying that the painting is very good and beautiful. But the children don’t know exactly what is good or beautiful. Over time, if these words are spoken too often, the children will know that their parents are actually dealing with them.

Therefore, parents should be specific and meticulous when praising their children's works.

For example, in the painting below, parents can praise the beautiful color combination. The ants are painted very carefully and arranged neatly. Let the children feel that their parents are really observing their paintings. If the parents' words speak to the child's heart, the child will be eager to tell his parents how he created it.

3. Pay attention to the perspective of evaluation

It cannot be denied that our evaluation plays an important role in guiding children's painting. If we praise the child's drawing, the child will develop in the direction of "image"; if we praise the child's imagination, the child will pursue "imagination". Therefore, parents' evaluation is very important for children's painting.