Summer school in the countryside

In the summer, many parents from the city send their children back to the countryside to live with grandparents and relatives, but fear that their children will not be used to living conditions in the countryside, so they send their children back to the city after a short time.

Little Hoa Binh (10 years old, Bien Hoa, Dong Nai) confided: "Every summer, I really like to go back to my maternal hometown in Quang Binh because I can go with my friends to the fields to glean rice, catch fish, and catch crabs. My older siblings also teach me how to swim. But after only half a month, my parents force me to go back home to summer school." Because of the fear that their children will lose out to their friends, many parents unintentionally take away the best childhood memories of their children by letting them study all summer. There is also an opinion that in urban areas, where there are enough conditions, means, space, and time, specifically through carefully organized and elaborate skill classes, it is not necessary to send children back to the countryside.

However, if parents let their children return to the countryside from the city, they will at least receive the following benefits:

1. Change the stuffy atmosphere, reduce pressure: If children can easily integrate with friends of the same age, they will be free to play with each other naturally. Collective folk games such as playing marbles, playing marbles, playing tops, jumping rope... help children enrich their spiritual life. In urban areas, not every family has the conditions to let their children learn skills. If children continue to stay within the four walls of the house during the summer and learn knowledge they do not like, gradually their souls will age, their life values ​​will be lacking and they will lack confidence when integrating into society.

2. Learning to be a farmer: Parents can let their children go back to their hometown during the summer or long holidays, giving them the opportunity to visit relatives and immerse themselves in nature. A trip to the countryside helps children recognize familiar animals such as snails, storks, buffalo, cows, goats, chickens... in real life. "Seeing is believing", children will learn many interesting things from the natural world. In addition, children can watch or join farmers in caring for and harvesting agricultural products, and herding wild animals. These are practical lessons that form in children a love of work, appreciation of the value of products and a love of nature.

3. Practice behavioral skills, empathize with others: In the countryside, people often live closer and friendlier than in the city (this is due to the objective principles of urban areas). As a rule, people from the same village greet each other when they meet. Returning to the countryside, children will form the habit of greeting, caring and thinking of others every time they meet. Life in the countryside also helps children live in harmony, harmony, and openness with everyone. Each joy and sadness of neighbors also helps children learn how to share.

4. Physical training, improving the ability to adapt to life: If possible, parents should boldly let their children return to the countryside to live with grandparents and relatives during the summer vacation. Children can run and exercise more. This will form in children independence and the ability to adapt to changes in the living environment. When parents are not around, children will have a way to easily integrate into the new life.

Sending children back to the countryside is a solution to help them form and develop life experiences naturally and sustainably. However, the choice depends on each family. When summer comes, we should guide our children to more useful and practical things than textbook lessons. It is also a way to play to learn.

According to tuoitre - nt