The significance of taking children to pick up bottles

"Let my son form good habits from childhood," I thought. My son walked forward with an empty bottle and saw an empty coke bottle lying on the road, so he broke away from my hand to pick it up. "Don't answer it!" I stopped.

"Didn't you say you would put the empty bottles in the dustbin?" My son asked me.

"We didn't drink it. Never mind. " I said almost deadpan.

"Why? Isn't this empty bottle rubbish? Don't you need to throw it into the dustbin? " The son's face is full of doubts.

"This, this ..." Yes, what's the matter? I am speechless.

After hesitating for a long time, I shook my head helplessly: "Well, pick it up and throw it away!" " " .

The son picked up the empty bottle and walked happily to the dustbin.

I was lost in thought: Coke bottles are rubbish. We ask children not to litter, but to put them in the dustbin, but why not allow them to pick up empty bottles thrown by others on the road? I think, not only me, but also many parents. We think it can educate children to form a good habit of not littering. We think it is "noble", but this "noble" is actually conditional: just don't litter yourself and don't care about others. In other words, we have made a discount on instilling the concept of "no littering" in our children. The child is pure and clever. Simple children think that "as long as it is rubbish, it should be put in the basket". Smart children will "understand" the beauty of this after several parents' guidance. "Just take care of your empty bottles and don't take care of other people's garbage." This kind of guidance, on the surface, is to educate us to form good habits and cultivate good morality, but deep down, it will have a very bad influence on children's moral cultivation:

First, it will make children develop a double-faced personality: on the surface, children accept the view that "empty bottles can't be thrown around" and know that throwing around is uncivilized, but why are empty bottles generally discarded on the road? Who lost it? I didn't see it. I don't know. Others can throw it, so can I, as long as no one sees it. Therefore, when no one is looking, our children will throw empty bottles (garbage) at will, because it is "convenient" for them to throw them at will. When there is someone, the child will be like a hypocrite. When there is no one, the child is a "rotten melon".

Second, even if children firmly believe that littering is uncivilized, they will never litter at will. But children will never pick up cans that others have lost. This makes children develop a cold character of "sweeping snow at their own doorstep and not caring about other people's first frost". It is better to do one more thing, and they will not help others enthusiastically, let alone be brave. ...

Children are naive, children are naive. We hope that children will develop good habits and good moral character. Then when we educate our children, we can't give them a discount in morality. We should teach them a noble concept of purity and let them form a good habit of purity. They don't throw empty bottles about themselves, but they also pick up empty bottles thrown by others on the road to remind others to throw them into the dustbin. It's uncivilized behavior! Only in this way can our children grow up healthily, truly become the people you want, have good habits and noble morality, and can influence the society!