The child bluntly stated that he was a "genius" and also gave a reason

When renovating the kitchen at home, a breakfast peninsula was added to the open design, so some high chairs were needed. We bought several chairs in different colors and styles and put them in the kitchen to see which one would match the decor of our home - we kept the ones we chose and took the ones we didn't like back to the store to return them.

The next morning the little girl went downstairs to have breakfast and saw two different chairs. She climbed around excitedly on them, trying one and sitting on the other.

"How is it?" I asked her, "Which of these two chairs do you like?"

"This." The little girl pointed to the gray fabric chair without thinking. explain.

I didn't care after hearing this and asked casually: "Why?"

"There are three reasons." The little girl blurted out.

I thought she was talking nonsense, so I smiled and let her talk.

"Because this chair has a place for my feet, I can step on it." She said.

"There's that one too." The high bar chairs all have places to step on, otherwise your feet won't be able to reach the ground when you sit on them and it will be uncomfortable.

"That one is only in front, and this one is all around. I can climb up from everywhere." Although the sentence structure expressed in Chinese is a bit confusing, the little girl speaks plausibly.

"Okay." I really didn't notice this, and I had to admire her careful observation. "What about the second reason?"

"I like this color, it matches our cabinets."

"Well, what else?"

< p> "And these legs," she pointed to the wood-colored chair legs, "I like this."

Now I was a little surprised. After just looking at it for a while, not only did I have a strong preference, but I was also able to give three reasons at once!

When I told her mother about this, she was not surprised. Some time ago, the kindergarten was closed and she was stuck at home. The little girl took an online English class with the first and second grade children. The assignments given by the teacher often require you to find arguments and arguments from a paragraph. Perhaps the little girl learned the skill of finding "reasons" from these assignments.

This ability can be used freely, and it can also put a lot of money on one's own face.

One night I was reading a story to her before going to bed. The book mentioned "genius". I joked with her and asked, "Are you a genius?"

" Yes!" The little girl opened her mouth and said, "Because I completed that project. (Because I completed that project.)"

Her voice was loud and confident. This confidence really makes me ashamed.

The "project" she refers to is something she made on a whim one day using a few pieces of cardboard. The raw material is the packaging box we bought. Before throwing it away, the little girl found it in time and saved it. She immediately used tape to glue three pieces of cardboard of different sizes together to make a tree shape. He also found a pile of dead tree bark from the backyard and attached it to the "tree" piece by piece. Then take out white paper, scissors, paintbrushes and paints, cut the paper into the shape of leaves, paint it with her favorite color, and stick it on the top of the "tree".

From the moment she saw the cardboard that we were about to throw away as trash to the completion of all this, the little girl worked hard by herself without stopping. The whole process seemed to have been well understood, and she knew from the beginning that she wanted to do it. do what. Although the finished product is not very beautiful, this trip of independent design and independent production is indeed a bit beyond our expectations.

What surprised us even more was that after doing all this, the little girl explained to us why she wanted to do such a "project" - "I will do a project when I go to elementary school. I' I can’t finish a slow-poke, so I’m going to start practicing now”

God knows why she has this idea! But the little girl’s unintentional words made me think. Like all children of this age, the little girl is a little procrastinated in doing things and does everything carelessly. When your mind is distracted, your movements will naturally slow down. We talked about this a lot with her. It seems that she has kept it in mind and used herself to think of taking the first step to make up for her "slow movement".

The little girl openly calls herself "genius" and adds an annotation to her "genius". This is undoubtedly the result of Canadian education. And she is very self-aware and calls herself "slow-poke", which seems to be the influence of our words and deeds on her. Looking back on our own childhood, our generation is often taught by our parents that "the stupid bird flies first". Traditional Chinese parents, no matter how proud they are of their children secretly, rarely praise them positively. Parents of our generation who grew up in this environment will inevitably be demanding on their children, and they have not yet fully learned how to use positive language to communicate with their children.

The little girl who lives in two different educational environments, home and school, seems to have no cognitive barriers to her dual identities of "genius" and "slow-poke", and she wanders between two different As parents between cultures, we still have a lot to learn.