In an underground parking lot in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou, two small figures appear every weekend. My first-grade brother, who is almost seven years old, and my fourth-grade sister, who is ten years old, are mopping the floor with a big mop one meter wide.
It turns out that her mother works as a cleaner in the parking lot. Brothers and sisters thought her mother was too hard, so they came to help.
Because now children can mop the floor, and too few people are willing to mop the floor. Not to mention the large parking area, there are dozens of square meters of land at home; Don't say that children aged seven or ten are in their teens or twenties. As long as he has parents or old people, let alone mopping the floor, even if the broom falls, he may not be too lazy to help.
Because everyone thinks that children should take learning as their first priority. Basic survival skills such as mopping the floor, cleaning, washing and cooking have to be sidelined. Sometimes children take the initiative to help, and we also say, "Go, go, read books and do homework!" " "
And now the children are our treasures, and the old people at home are used to it. Many children live a carefree life. Some children are in the third and fourth grades, and they can't even wear clothes or tie their shoelaces. Of course, unlike Guiyang's brothers and sisters, they will mop the floor with a big MAC mop. Even in the school health duty, some parents worry that their children will not clean, and that there will be some accidents in cleaning the classroom, so they reach out and take it, and some simply ask the hourly worker to clean the school.
No comparison, no harm. Look at other people's children, so considerate of their parents at an early age. Dad works at the construction site and has no time to accompany them. Mom is so tired dragging such a big garage alone! So every weekend, the brother and sister become mom's little helpers.
Where are our children's weekends?
For children in the city on weekends, in various training classes and interest classes. For example, my friend's daughter took five classes: English, math, painting, dancing and swimming, and sat in a coffee shop to write the homework assigned by the teacher.
Weekends for rural children, on TV and on mobile phones. The TV receiver on the pot cover is so powerful that dozens of TV stations can receive it. You can sing cartoons and I will appear. The children will sit in front of the TV when they eat. I can't take my eyes off the game, but I'm faster than Tik Tok and Aote. I was so happy that I laughed my head off.
My cousin's two daughters are all like this. One weekend last year, I took my children back to my hometown to experience life. Let's pick wild fruits, mushrooms and crabs. ...
Eight-year-olds are watching TV, and ten-year-olds are holding mobile phones. Grandma asked them to go out to play with us. After several phone calls, they were extremely impatient and angry with her.
Grandma said: "No way. They won't listen to anything! Even parents are disobedient when they come back, as if TV and mobile phones are their lives! "
Grandpa died, and his son and daughter-in-law were all working on the construction site. Grandma was alone at home, and five people in the family farmed and fed five pigs and dozens of chickens and ducks. She was busy flying all day, but her two granddaughters didn't help.
When I was a child, I had to carry a small basket to cut pig grass as soon as school was over. On weekends, I have to carry a small hoe and go weeding with my mother. Everyone will help the family finish the farm work and light kerosene lamps to do their homework after dinner.
But I remember those two diligent little girls when I came here a few years ago.
At that time, a six-year-old had just entered the first grade, a four-year-old was in the middle class of kindergarten, and two small ones helped grandma peel tender corn (corn), first peeled it, then threshed it, and then ground it with a stone mill to make delicious tortillas. After peeling, we tied purple corn whiskers into beautiful braids and tied one on each head. Everyone plays the game of braiding. You pull mine, I pull his, and he pulls yours. Everyone laughed happily.
Grandma said with a wry smile, "Yes, I was very good when I was young. But then my daughter-in-law came back and saw the doll at work. She has a problem with it. They say no matter how hard it is, son. What do girls want to be rich? "
"In my opinion, today's children are as rich as the rich, and they are better off than the old landlords!"
Grandma said, "All the dolls in the village went dark one day and found a mobile phone. He also said that he was born in the countryside and could not even tell the difference between wheat and leeks. Where can they work? I'm afraid that when people in their sixties and seventies can't do it, the fields will be abandoned. "
Before grandma could do it, their fields were deserted. Because the eldest daughter went to junior high school this year, both children moved to the town to study and rented a house near the school, accompanied by grandma.
Because most rural children are not guided and addicted to mobile phones, the learning situation of students in township schools is worrying now.
However, learning is secondary. The key is that although he was born in the countryside, he is not diligent and doesn't care about whole grains. Some of them lack basic self-care ability because the elderly at home are closely accompanying them.
If he lacks the ability to take care of himself, even a "child prodigy" or a "schoolmaster" may become a stumbling block to his success.
Wei Yongkang, a "prodigy" in Hunan Province, learned thousands of words at the age of 2, entered the county key middle school at the age of 8, was admitted to the key university with high scores at the age of 13, and was admitted to the Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 17 to continue his doctoral studies.
What an excellent child this is. If their children can be so promising, then parents are really willing to do whatever they want.
Wei Yongkang's mother, also think so, from his birth to undergraduate, has been accompanied. In order for her son to study with peace of mind, she arranged everything in his life in an orderly way, not only cooking and washing clothes, but also washing his face, hair and feet. Even in high school, his mother fed him to save study time.
When Wei Yongkang entered the graduate school, his mother stopped accompanying him. He left his mother's maid to take care of him, and he couldn't arrange his study and life at all. He doesn't even know how to dress when he is cold. He wore short sleeves and slippers to Tiananmen Square in winter, and he 100% turned around.
Finally, he was dismissed by the Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences before his master's degree.
A child prodigy, a genius and a future physicist were all created by his mother and destroyed by her own hands.
Therefore, children who go to the parking lot to help their mothers mop the floor at weekends, regardless of their academic performance (in fact, children who understand so well will not have too bad grades), they know their parents' hard work and are not afraid of hardship and fatigue. When they grow up, they will be able to support themselves, their parents and their children.
Didn't these ordinary hardworking people support our country?