According to the current survey results on the situation of only children, 90% of my country’s only children have never done or rarely done housework, and the average child only has 0.2 hours (12 minutes) of labor time per day. Housework is not only a person's basic life skills, but also related to a person's future career development and family happiness. It seems to be a simple truth, but it is often difficult to put it into practice. Parents always tend to put academic performance first.

Experience of Steven Chu’s parents in raising children: Housework promotes success

Nobel Prize winner in physics and Chinese scientist Steven Chu was appointed by Obama as the U.S. Secretary of Energy in early 2000. Steven Chu once again Attracting the attention of Chinese people around the world, people can't help but ask: "How did his parents educate him?" In fact, the three brothers Steven Chu are all Ph.D. graduates from prestigious American universities. Zhu Diwen's parents were very successful in educating their children. One of them cannot but be mentioned that Zhu's mother taught the three brothers how to cook, and learning to make wontons was their "cooking enlightenment."

Diwen Chu, who learned cooking as a child, often brought various rice bags he made to school when he was in elementary and middle school. The alluring aroma attracted the envy of many American classmates. He would also share the delicious food with his classmates. . Steven Chu later called scientific experiments "cooking." He believed that if children who can only read can't even cook simple meals, how can they understand experiments?

Divine Chu said that cooking is like doing experiments, it can train a person's concentration and problem-solving abilities. You open the refrigerator and cook with the only ingredients in the refrigerator. If you can make a delicious meal, you are seeking change and improvement within limited resources. This experience and ability are of great help in solving the bottleneck problems he faces in scientific research and in scientific thinking. Therefore, Steven Chu advocates that children learn to cook and do housework from an early age.