This is my second picture book
Actually, I was a little surprised
How did I embark on this road
“Growth Diary of Xixi's Family"
About safety awareness and character development
There is the world I want introduce to children
And my message to parents who read the picture book
At first, they wrote at least fifty or sixty stories, but I rejected them all
They joked with me, Li
Are you evaluating our picture book by the standard of scripts
They say "One's character in three years old seals his fate"
I believe that a lot of habits need to be developed from an early age
Concepts are to be infused into his/her soul from an early age
My son Dengdeng is 11 years old, and his little sister 8 years old
I will invite friends who are especially good at cooking
To teach them how to hold a knife
The more dangerous it is, the more you have to let them learn
How to handle fire, how to use pots
What is it that you can touch and what's not
So he now knows how to hold a knife
Without hurting himself and others
"The 'Giant' Next Door" is about bullying
I have specifically asked a child psychologist
She said (bullying) is actually very common
Many children are ashamed to talk about it
So it will often be left unattended
Until it's too late
How can you express your thoughts
To have the courage to say "no"
When there is a problem you can not solve, you can ask help from an adult
From the sketch to the text, I will show them to my children
And they would give me advice like little editors
The one that we had most differences of ideas about
Is "Family Relay Race"
Until now, there is no standard answer
For you
(Yitiao: the process matters more)
Right?
Maybe cause we are grown-ups
We tend to enjoy the process, don't we?
But for children, they feel that the result is more important
(Dengdeng) he worries before every exam
I said I don't care about you grade at all
I only need to know that you worked hard to review
And Dengdeng would be like, no matter how well I do the review
If I doesn't get a good score
My teacher wouldn't praise me anyway
That's a good point too
I'm not smart enough to convince them
Communication is also a skill to cultivate
We have a lot of time communicating
It's not allowed to use smartphone during dinner at our home
And we have good communication and interaction in the car
I read them bedtime stories
I love taking them to shopping malls, they can touch the goods
And they are given choices
Dengdeng is a lot like his father
He loves pink
He would be embarrassed at first
I said there is nothing wrong with it
You like pink, and I like black and blue
One day I took Dengdeng to go shopping
He wanted to buy something
And when we were at the counter, he saw the price
He was shocked
How is it so expansive, he said
I won't take it
And he just left
I was right behind him, you know
I almost cried
Because when I buy things for him online
I just give him my password
There is no way he could know
What his parents have to do to afford this
I also like to take them to farms
I want them to learn what it takes for a farmer
From a seed to food on the table
So we must not waste food
You know nowadays when kids have psychological problems
They go to see a psychiatrist with their parents
Most psychiatrist would say that parents need treatment
It's not that if a child is young, he/she must be wrong
We are also first-time parents
A lot of times we need to change too
Just a few days ago I posted something in my WeChat moments, it's fun
It's almost winter
So I bought them two pretty thermos cups
I brought it back to Dengdeng
Dengdeng was very unhappy about it
He was like
Have you seen a tough guy using thermos cup
Ok
I suddenly realized that his positioning of himself was different
Be it some pushier parents
You would use it as you are told, right?
But I sometimes put myself in the child's shoes
See things in their perspective
His world is not so big
The classmates he faces everyday
He wants to be cool in their eyes
I think about it later
That seems to be right
Because when a child is still developing
It's natural for their personality to fluctuate
We can't be like, why my child changes like this
It's true, they are changing
And you should be happy about their changes