How many months can I go to Harbin to play with snow without being particularly cold?

Harbin has a long winter with a heating period of half a year.

During the heating period, everyone's activities turn indoors. Before Dom was born, I didn't feel anything, but after Dom was born, it was different. A brand-new life, I really can't bear to watch her spend most of her childhood in a reinforced concrete space. Therefore, every winter, I worry that this kind of captivity will affect the sensory development of children.

Until one day, I met my mother in Bao Hui, Finland.

Bao Hui is three months younger than Domi, and entered the local kindergarten at 19 months. On one occasion, Bao Hui's mother shared the daily activities of a Finnish kindergarten in a group and said, "The kindergarten stipulates that as long as the temperature is above MINUS 15 degrees, children must be guaranteed two hours of outdoor activities during the day."

Seeing the pictures of children playing in the snow in kindergarten wearing uniforms and pony armour with reflective signs, my previous concept that "children are too cold to play outside" was greatly impacted. Yes, I have never tried it, so I gave up all the beautiful winter outdoor activities with my mind.

I can't wait to run to the window and look at the snow outside. The snow is almost as thick as that in Finland, but babies in Finland like winter, while my children just stay indoors and enjoy the heating.

The next day, I began to try to take Mei Duo to open up a new venue-downstairs in the community, the world has endless snow.

I dug out all the thickest winter clothes-windbreaker, down jacket, thick cotton trousers, scarf and gloves. It takes fifteen minutes to dress her every time I go out, and it takes half an hour to catch up with her.

But after putting them all on, I feel more than half loose. After all, there is a kind of cold, which makes my mother feel that the child is cold.

At first, I was afraid she wouldn't adapt. In the weather of minus 17℃, I only dare to take her out 15 minutes.

It takes half an hour to put on thick clothes layer by layer, only play 15 minutes, and then run home and take them off. Is it worth it?

Value!

Because it gradually became 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours.

For 2 hours, Mei Duo played from one end of the community to the other, and worked tirelessly with the snow every day, and unconsciously established a deep affection with the snow.

When she often plays, she thinks, "I like snow!" "

When she stays in the house every day, she never says "I like heating!" " "

During the Spring Festival, the temperature is MINUS 20 degrees, and the northeast has entered a very beautiful season. The sky is covered with snow. As long as there are slopes, there will be natural ice landslides. Children get together spontaneously with sledges, ski circles and self-made sliding mats, dragging their own equipment up and down, laughing and playing.

With the experience of playing in the snowdrift, we also brought Domi into this season's play, but wherever we go, Domi is the youngest baby. Afraid that she could not control her direction and collided with the older children, we chose the smallest slope to start and experience a little. When there were few people later, we took her to try a long slope of more than ten meters. She didn't have stage fright at all and completed the challenge happily.

Sometimes I take her to a nearby park and only see snow everywhere. It's so beautiful and exciting. She stepped on the snow, kicked the snow, grabbed a handful of snow, rolled in the snow, looked up at the sky, as if to be integrated with this snowy world.

It is true that children learn knowledge and know the world through feelings.

Of course, as a baby in Northeast China, snow plough is a must for every family, and the baby has one hand.

I remember one day, it snowed all day. After dinner, I felt itchy when I saw a thick layer of snow outside. When I looked back, Mei Duo was fascinated by the window.

"Go to play with the snow?" I propose.

"All right ~" she answered simply.

We both wore thick clothes for 20 minutes, and it was already dark when we went downstairs.

The dim street lamp shines on the snow and looks very warm.

But it's not warm at all.

The snow is still falling, and there is a strong wind from time to time. The strong wind unscrupulously rolled up the snow on the ground, spinning and patting the walls, trees and our faces firmly.

Mei Duo was staggered by the strong wind, and I put my arm around her head. I immediately squatted down and hugged her shoulder for fear that she would be scared.

Who knows that she put her arms around my neck and shouted, "I'm not afraid!" " "

I couldn't help laughing: Is this child afraid of me taking her home?

Ok, don't go home, mom will play with you, but you need to find a shelter. I thought to myself, it would be better to carry her to the back wall of a house, so beautiful and happy. I jumped out of my arms, jumped into the snow and stopped. She looked down for a while, knelt on the snow slowly, leaned down slowly, fell on the snow, rolled around again, lay down and quietly looked at the snowflakes dancing under the street lamp.

The light of the street lamp is beautiful and warm in the snow.

She watched it for a while, got up, grabbed the snow and threw it out, shouting, "It's snowing!" " "

After a while, I piled up the snow with a small shovel and trampled it flat.

Occasionally passing a car, I quickly pulled her aside. We stood on the side of the road and watched the snowflakes flying under the headlights, like a stage play.

The bus has left. Let's continue to play.

Ask her several times: "Go home?"

She always replied, "I'm not going home."

Don't forget to add: "I'm not cold, I'm warm ~"

After about two hours, Dom finally agreed to go home.

As soon as I got home, I got into my father's arms and began to coquetry in his fluffy pajamas: "Dad, Meimei's hands are cold, and Dad covers her hands ... Her feet are cold ... covering her feet ..."

Dad scolded me: "The child's feet are red with cold, and he hasn't brought them back yet."

I said, "She said she was warm ..." Do you think he would believe me? ...

Well, this strange mother is willing to carry it and take you next time.

Spring has come, but it's still zero. I stopped all early education classes and took her to embrace nature on weekends.

When going out to play, the equipment must go first. Raincoats, rain pants and small rubber shoes are easy to climb and roll, resistant to manufacturing and dirt, and flush at home. It's brand new. This small step has solved 90% of the contradiction between parents and children when they are playing outside. Because I have met too many parents, parents will blame their babies for being dirty because of love.

Snow accumulated for a winter is civilized, and water is everywhere in the community. Pedestrians frown to see how beautiful the flowers are.

Treading on water is almost a compulsory course during this period. Every time I see a bigger puddle, I jump, jump and run, shouting "Wow …".

Not far from the residential area, there is a small lake. The ice civilization is thin and cracked with a bang in the sun. How beautiful, drag me to see it. I said, "It's the sound of breaking ice."

She picked up the branches and ran over, sitting by the lake to break the ice artificially, crackling, the sound of nature is really wonderful ~

Pick up soft branches and use them to make necklaces and bracelets. Look, isn't it beautiful?

You can always find a lot of fun when you come out more. I picked up a branch, dangling it, patting the water and poking the mud, and playing endlessly. I used to think outdoor life was boring, but I hid so much fun.

Montessori said: "A classroom with a roof is a classroom without a roof".

Mei Duo is definitely a qualified practitioner.

I believe that many parents, like me, live in an unsatisfactory environment and have no time and energy to take their children around. Seeing that other children have rich experiences at an early age makes them feel anxious.

I hope my story can give you some inspiration. From the child's point of view, to break through those restrictive concepts, you only need to provide your child with one or two sets of clothes and equipment close to nature at will, and often take your child out, with more follow-up and less restrictions, and the child will naturally take you and find fun around you.

The external environment is important, but the state of children when they integrate into the environment is more important. An environment suitable for children can make them concentrate completely and get carried away in their own activities. For example, in my opinion, our community with nothing has mud pits in spring, wind in summer, fallen leaves in autumn and snow in winter, which is a great growing environment.

Such an environment is fearless, far or near, big or small, new or old, for example, a handful of dirt in Mei Duo's hand.