Pulitzer's winner tells you how important it is to cultivate children's inverse business

If your child has already started learning English, then you must have heard Dr. Sus. He was affectionately referred to by parents and friends as "English Enlightenment of 700 million children around the world".

Not only that, Dr. Suss's children's literature works have both educational and ideological. In 1984, Pulitzer awarded him for his special influence in education, and awarded him with special contribution award.

Dr. Sus is rich in personal experience, and writers and painters are only two of his many professional identities. He was still an advertising designer, animator, animation director, cartoonist, drama writer, lyricist, political cartoonist ... … Thinking and life experience condensed by these different experiences have also been presented in his works in different periods. Teacher Ajia once talked about him:

"His life is colorful, and his thinking about life and the world often penetrates in his seemingly ridiculous works, and affects this world in a unique way."

He has witnessed the World War and has been in person to reconstruction after the war. These special life experiences have prompted him to create "great works". He hopes to focus on children and try to change the world with childlikeness. In addition to the "primary reader series" that won the victory in language learning, he has been creating the "Big Book" series in writing. In terms of his wife's words, he is creating for all human beings.

At a literary seminar in 1949, he stated his claim that the best children's story could meet the seven basic needs of children: love, security, belonging, achievement, knowledge, changes and aesthetics.

These are also integrated in his works. He builds a worldly and empty world from the poetic fantasy of children's perspectives. In this world, he has his own language system. The pursuit of love and ideals, ridicule and ridicule of reality can also accommodate. While children are ridiculous, they can try to discover interesting philosophical propositions while laughing.

In recent years, more and more books of children's philosophical enlightenment have been increasing, and parents have begun to pay attention to the importance of philosophical thinking in the growth of children. In fact, as early as sixty years ago, Dr. Sus had tried to plant the seeds of speculative through the story in the child's heart.

1. Use resonance instead of preaching, instead of commands with thinking

How to encourage children to face difficulties? Just persuade the child to be brave, or is it wrong to tell the child cowardly? In fact, these are just a mission -style point of instilling the view, only a binary concept for children, that is, bravery is good, cowardice is bad. Just telling the child that "you to escape is a coward", which uses the shame of children to force them to change. This kind of shame incentive will bring greater psychological trauma to the child.

Perhaps some parents will say, "This is how we were tempered when we were young." This can indeed force people to grow, but remember every time you have made the effort to "brave", is it painful? We only get the instructions of "bravery", but why brave and brave, we must rely on ourselves to experience and digest. Do you have to grow so painful? Dr. Suss brought us different answers.

In his "It's really troublesome to go to Worry -Free City", the protagonist is not an excellent as a "child of someone else's family". In the face of difficulties, he will be overwhelmed because he is at a loss, and he will want to escape the first time.

Moreover, he did choose to escape. He wanted to escape the legendary worry -free city. There was no trouble there, even if there was, it was less amazing. This is why Dr. Sus's story attracts children. He did not call for the child to be brave, but accompanied him to see the escape from the perspective of the child. Can escape really solve the problem?

The answer is actually obvious, but the focus is on the process of getting the answer. The choice of the protagonist in each step is what the children will do. When the camel of the car is sick, the camel must be sent to the hospital first; when it encounters heavy rain, it will be logical to the rain ... It's better to think. First of all, what to escape is more and more troublesome. Second, Worry -Free City is not worry -free, because of the trouble brought by the bug, its door can never be opened. ; In the end, the people of Worry -free City given a new place to escape -Happy City without trouble. What will the protagonist choose? Here, Dr. Sus left a near -blank white page, which also left the child for thinking and choice.

After so many, the child will scratch his head like the protagonist, and has more new questions: Is there really worry about worrying about the city and happy city in the world? Is there really no trouble there? Escaping will also understand anything, that is, constantly derived new troubles, the trouble is getting more and more terrible. It seems that it is not terrible to look at the original troubles. Is it worth such a big deal for it?

At the end of the story, I think most children will make the same choice as the protagonist: no longer find a happy city, buy a big stick back to my hometown, and find some trouble for themselves!

In this way, following Dr. Sus's story, the children found their courage. Without preaching, no compulsory, just like a partner, after experiencing together, you will feel the same.

Use "hiding trouble" to cause more trouble, and use the method of finding "worry -free city" to promote the way to find worry -free. This ingenious story setting is both wise and inspiring. 2. Breaking the rigid thinking and seeing the real and colorful world

In the early days of cognition, children can easily understand the complex dual concept directly as oppositional relationships, that is, life and death, black and white. For example, when reading or watching TV, it is easy for a child to ask a question: "Mom, is this person good or bad?" It seems that there are only good people and bad guys in the world.

However, many dual relationships in the world are not completely opposite. It is not good or evil, or good or bad. It exaggerates the opposition between the two and is easy to form an extreme and rude cognitive model. This will not only limit the child's cognition, but also It will affect the child's thinking and judgment, let the child fall into the logical trap created by themselves, become "acknowledging death" and "a tendon", and lack of variant thinking, that is, what we call random strain. When the child is not relying on fixed thinking to judge, they cannot meet the challenges smoothly, and it is difficult to adapt to the new environment.

Dr. Sus is good at setting through the details of the characters and the plot in the work, bringing the child with inspiring and diverse thinking, guiding the child to see the complexity of society and the diverse of people, open the boundaries of the mind, and at the same time allow the thinking to move into depth. Essence

In the details of "Going to Worry -Free City", you can see this attempt made by Dr. Sus. He puts the seemingly contradictory characteristics together, attracts the child to discover and think, and then understand this kind of Diversity.

Is kindness and cunning? The presence of the protagonist's Worry -Free City, and the person who took the initiative to propose to take him to the Worry -Free City is kind. But when the camel's camel is ill, the road becomes difficult. This kind person does not work with the protagonist, but instead moves his mouth, and the protagonist becomes a new hard work. Kindness and cunning appeared at the same time on him, but they were not violated. When a person was rich, he could do it with himself. When he was in trouble, he would take priority to himself.

Is there a power between natural enemies? When the protagonist avoided the rain, he met a mouse nest and the owl family. The owl is eaten by mice, and they are originally enemy relationships, but in such a disaster, the mouse accepted the owl that originally lived on the tree; after the heavy rain caused the flood, the owl flew with the mouse again and was spared to be difficult to be difficult. Essence

What's even more interesting is that when the owl is carrying mice, the mouse is not riding on the back of the owl, but standing on his beak. According to the law of nature, the owl will hold the mice in his mouth when prey. In contrast, the mutual rescue at this time seemed more dramatic. The natural conflict is resolved here because of goodwill.

It looks more realistic? The general who rescued and called on the protagonist to join the army to fight the monster together looked heroic and mighty.可当发现怪兽不是一只而是一群时，首当其冲地……逃跑了，嘴里还不服输：“胜败乃兵家常事。”判断一个人，重要的不是他怎么说，而是要看他怎么Do.

Is the owner be free and comfortable than pets? In the middle of the crowded and noisy underground pipeline, there was a person with a fish tank above his head, and his pet small fish lived in it. The scope of this person's activity is only a foothold under the feet. Compared with him, Xiaoyu spit bubbles freely in a relatively spacious fish tank.

Dr. Sus also deliberately painted the bright orange to the hero and the small fish in the dark picture. It seemed that they did not belong to the world, at least their mood did not belong to it.

The above are just a few small details, but each one is enough to help children and parents start a deeper philosophical discussion. The rules of judging good or bad seemed to be invalid here. Those seemingly incompatible nouns can also coexist. The walls in the thinking are broken, and the cognition of the world has become rich and full. Only when we see the color of the world can we have the possibility of choice and judgment more accurately.

3. After understanding the multi -facialability, accept the world more tolerant

The rich and diverse world cognition makes it easier for children to understand and accept diversity and differentiation in the world, and then the mentality is more tolerant and the vision is more open, which helps children grow into people who can think independently and rationally and openly.

In Dr. Sus's "Did I tell you, how lucky you are", the beginning of the story, the protagonist boy came to a desert because of his unsatisfactory discouraged life. Here, he met an old man, and the old man sang leisurely here and sang the lucky Miao Fang to the boy.

In the picture, the old man was sitting on the palm of the stabbing fairy barefoot, and behind him was a deserted desert, but he seemed to not mind his current situation, his expression was pleasant, and he was contented. The boy was wearing shoes and stood on a stone, but his face was completely worried and embarrassed.

In the story, the old man took the boy to cross different worlds, and saw the unfortunate unlucky eggs in all corners of the life -travelers who were blocked at the crowded intersection, and the boys who had to work in danger on the weekend to get full. The professor who taught ducks with thirty -two years ... The boy kept thinking about it during the journey, and he did not have to become these unlucky eggs. Now he is lucky.

When the trip through the trip, returned to the desert again. At this time, the boy had found a lucky recipe and manipulating the lucky switch was not elsewhere. It was his own mentality. The old man sang again, but the boy was like a person. At this time, he sat on the opposite side of the old man with a stabbing cactus, smiling, and listening quietly. When we see the richness of the world, we also learn the perspective of choosing to observe the world. Just like the boy in the story, at first he only focused on his unsatisfactory, stubbornly thought that he was the most unfortunate person, but when he changed his mindset, he began to pay attention to the temporary unsatisfactory. Most of them are lucky and happiness that we already have. The tolerance for life can make us embrace life more actively.

In their travel journey, one station was to see the people standing towards the sun. They bathed the sun and threw the shadow behind them. However, there is an exception, that is, Harry Henry. He tried his best to find a way, but he couldn't find his own shadow.

Here, Dr. Sus is inspiring a larger proposition, which is tolerance for the world differentiation. From the perspective of appearance and dressing, Harry Heli is almost the same as others, but he has no shadow that others have, and he has to be anxious for this. Is this kind of difference must be wrong? After reading, parents can try to start related discussions with their children.

There are many in the "Big Book" series of Dr. Suss's "Big Book" series that try to inspire philosophical propositions related to life, life, and world. Perhaps childhood cannot change the world, but he has been working hard, just as he borrowed "Old Rez Flying" The words said: "Unless someone is particularly concerned about this, such as you, everything cannot be transferred. It is impossible." He devoted himself to it, hoping that it would make the world better by affecting the child.

It's really troublesome to go to Wuyou City

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There is no trouble in Wuyou City, even if there is, it is very small. However, when the protagonist arrived in Wuyou City, he found that there was no difference from other places ... In the face of difficulties, escape may bring more trouble, and it may be better to face it calmly. This book brings the philosophy of enlightening life, cultivating and improving children's inverse quotient, and helping children to obtain a positive ecology that does not escape and actively respond.

Did I tell you how lucky you are

If you feel that you are an unlucky egg, you are not as good as others, and look at the "Bang Bin Bridge", "A Fart Blow" and "Prince of the Fart". The exaggerated but ironic "unlucky" story, use these stories to write good luck, guide children to think about the true meaning of luck, teach children optimism and gratitude, and help them find cheats to pursue happiness.

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