What are some good ways to teach children?

1, teach children to have a square

Wei Zhuang Gong's son Zhou Yu, from a young age by his father spoiled, like to fight, and Wei Zhuang Gong never stop. For this kind of practice, the doctor Shi vinegar advised: "I heard that children should be loved and cared for, and should be taught with the right way of being a human being, and should not be allowed to have improper demands and behaviors. If the children have the faults of arrogance, extravagance, debauchery, and pleasure, they will naturally follow the evil path. And the reason why many children have these four faults is entirely the result of their parents' pampering and spoiling them, ah! "

2. Zeng Zi kills a pig

This is a very famous story of family education. Zeng Zi's wife wanted to go out on the street, and her young son cried and cried and wanted to go with her, and she cajoled him, saying, "Go back and wait, and I'll come back and kill a pig so that you can eat the meat." The wife had just returned from the street when she saw that Zeng Zi was really going to kill the pig, and she hastened to stop him, saying, "I was only talking to the child for fun and coaxing him." Zeng Zi said, "You cannot joke with a child. A child is young and has no knowledge, and will imitate his parents in every way. By deceiving him today, you are teaching him to cheat like you, which is not a good way to educate a child!" So Zeng Zi killed the pig and cooked the meat for the child.

3, the encounter is taught

Tang Taizong paid great attention to the education of the crown prince Li Zhi, his education method is "the encounter is taught," that is, in daily life, at any time and place to seize the encountered things, accordingly, education. When the crown prince was eating, he said to the crown prince, "If you can know how hard it is to produce food, you will always have this kind of meal." When he saw the Prince riding a horse, he said to him, "If you can know that a horse should have labor and leisure without exhausting its strength, then only will you always have horses to ride." When he saw the prince riding in a boat, he said to him, "Water can float a boat or overturn it. The people are like the waters of a river, and the king is like a ship."

4, wounded Zhongyong

Once upon a time, there was a child named Fang Zhongyong, who could improvise poems when he could not yet read or write, and both the literary style and the moral meaning were very exquisite, the local people were very surprised, and called him a "child prodigy", and then they also treated his father as guests, and some of them even took money and gave it to them. His father thought this was profitable, so he dragged Fang Zhongyong around every day to meet famous people, performing his poems, but not letting him study hard.

Gradually, by the age of 12, Fang's talent was not as good as before, and his poems were very ordinary; by the age of 20, his talent had completely disappeared, and he became just like an ordinary man. This story tells us one thing: Fang Zhongyong's intelligence was given by God, however, he eventually became an ordinary person because his father was greedy for money, failed to let him receive timely training and education, missed the best education period, and eventually became mediocre.

5. Meng's mother moved three times

Once upon a time, when Meng Zi was small, his father died early, and his mother kept the festival without remarrying. At first, they lived next to a cemetery. Meng Zi often played the game of handling funerals with the neighboring children by learning how adults kneel and wail. When Mengzi's mother saw this, she frowned: "No way! I can't let my child live here anymore!" So Mencius' mother took Mencius and moved him to the marketplace, near the place where the pigs were killed and the sheep slaughtered. When they arrived at the marketplace, Meng Zi learned again, with the neighborhood children, about merchants doing business and slaughtering pigs and sheep.

Meng Zi's mother knew this and frowned again, "This place is not suitable for my child to live in either!" So they moved again. This time, they moved near the school. At this time of the month, the first day of the summer calendar, the officials went to the Temple of Literature, bowed and knelt down, and treated each other politely, and Mencius learned to memorize them all when he saw them one by one. Meng Zi's mom nodded her head in satisfaction and said, "This is where my son should live ah!"