Today, more and more parents are turning their attention to their children’s education, hoping that by investing time and energy, they can give their children better family education so that their children can develop a better family in the future. bright future. Every parent's education method will be different, but when it comes to broadening their children's horizons, many parents believe that taking their children out for more walks can better achieve this effect.

In order to take the children out to see more and experience the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, my friend Xiaoxuan specially took her family and children to visit a famous scenic spot outside the province during the National Day. During this three-day trip, they saw magnificent mountain peaks, vast lakes, and experienced local customs, food and culture. During this period, in order to let the children see more of these scenery, Xiaoxuan kept reminding the children by their side, and spent a lot of time and effort on this. When the trip was over and she returned home, Xiaoxuan asked her child to write a travel diary in order to test the effectiveness of their trip.

What Xiaoxuan didn’t expect was that what the child saw in the past three days was not about the mountains and rivers at all, and there was no mention of the local customs. Basically, it was all about what he had eaten in the past few days. The food arrived and some hiccups that occurred. This made Xiaoxuan a little disappointed. She spent so much energy, time and money, but in the end the child did not gain much knowledge from it.

When traveling with children, it is often the case that they are just looking at things. This not only fails to help the children increase their knowledge, but also has a certain impact on the parents' own travel.

Many parents choose to travel with their children, basically under the banner of gaining knowledge, but do parents really think this way? We all know that most knowledge growth comes from interest. In the classroom, the knowledge derived from books is vividly interpreted by the teacher, and the children become interested and are willing to accept and absorb it.

As for knowledge in life, it is more often necessary to obtain it through children's own interests. When parents travel with their children, it is more often the parents who decide the destination, which is a disguised form of kidnapping their children’s vacation. In addition, this kind of travel under the pretext of "gaining knowledge" is mostly the result of parents following the trend. Therefore, when children travel, they lack the support of interest and often travel in a superficial way.

In the parents’ perception, as long as they can take their children to see the bustling cities and beautiful landscapes that their children have never seen before, it can help them increase their knowledge. In fact such an idea is completely wrong.

I believe many parents are aware of the story of "Meng Mu's three moves". In order to ensure the growth of Mencius and prevent him from being negatively influenced by the surrounding environment, Meng's mother moved her home three times. In fact, what can really achieve the purpose of making children gain knowledge should be what the children are really interested in. At this time, the children can be influenced by it and gain real insights and cognition. But nowadays, more and more parents understand it as taking their children to experience things they have never seen before. Apart from sighing, this actually does not bring any educational significance to the children.

Traveling in a casual way seems to help children increase their knowledge, but in fact it deprives children of the choice of their own life experience. Because children are often not interested in the travel destinations chosen by their parents, such a trip is actually boring for them.

Children may feel bored and bored during visits and sightseeing. These negative emotions will cause children to not feel the beauty of the journey, and may even feel disgusted with traveling. Travel is an important source of life experience for children. Once a child has a bad impression of travel, it is likely to affect the child's acquisition of life experience.

Nonetheless, for some families who have the conditions, traveling to places that interest their children can help them avoid superficial travel and help their children increase their knowledge. But traveling is not the only way for children to gain knowledge. Parents who cannot afford to take their children to travel can take their children to participate in more public welfare activities, which can also help them gain knowledge.

Compared with travel and visits, public welfare activities will cover a wider range of fields and forms of activities. With the continuous improvement of the social security system, today's public welfare activities are no longer just simple physical labor and monetary expenditures. Therefore, children's interests can be safeguarded through a variety of activities.

Parents can lead their children to participate in various charity activities and enrich their children's after-school life with interesting activities. For example: Accompanying children to participate in cleaning nursing home activities, taking children to participate in activities to maintain traffic order, etc.

Compared with travel, the educational effect brought by charity activities is more obvious and profound. By personally participating in activities, children can see the real life of people in various professions and age groups in society, thereby broadening their horizons and increasing their knowledge.

For example, by participating in cleaning nursing home activities, children can learn from the lack of companionship of lonely elderly people that they should care more about their grandparents; by participating in traffic directing activities, children will understand that what they originally thought of is Police officers are not only responsible for fighting crime, punishing evil and eradicating rape, but they are also responsible for maintaining traffic, ensuring travel, etc.

By participating in social welfare activities, it can also enrich children's emotions and allow children's minds to develop and grow better. Before leaving the family and integrating into other organizations, the emotions that children are exposed to are basically only family affection. This single emotion will appear a bit barren in terms of enriching children's knowledge.

But if parents lead their children to participate in various social welfare activities and guide their children to appreciate the real lives of people from all walks of life, it will fill the emotional gaps in their children and allow them to truly Taste the ups and downs of society.

Of course, in order to achieve better educational results, parents should grasp three dimensions when leading their children to participate in social welfare activities.

Some parents may not agree with the activities chosen by their children and refuse them for various reasons. For example, if a child chooses to assist the traffic police in directing traffic, the parents will reject the child's choice on the grounds that the sun is too strong and they are worried about the child's health. In fact, such an approach is wrong.

In order to fully mobilize children's interests, parents should never interfere with their children's choices, but should respect them. As long as children are interested in the activity, they won't mind suffering a little more. This can not only achieve the purpose of increasing children's knowledge, but also exercise children's various abilities to a certain extent.

Some parents decide that a certain process is very educational when their children are participating in the activity, so they force their children to participate. In fact, this approach cannot achieve very good educational results.

For example, when children participate in cleaning nursing homes, parents force their children to wash the feet of the elderly. In fact, when children can truly understand the sad emotions of these elderly people, they will naturally choose to participate in this activity. But if the child is forced to do this by his parents before he can receive this "emotion" well, then the child will not only fail to achieve the purpose of increasing his knowledge, but will also resist participating in charity activities.

After each charity activity, parents should promptly guide their children to summarize their feelings. This is an improvement process. By summarizing their own gains and feelings, children can remember these beautiful moments more deeply. This will be a very precious memory for the children when they grow up.