Bad Habits: 87 Ways to Correct Your Child's Bad Study Habits

Author: Qin Yu
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Children often unconsciously form some bad habits during their learning process, which can affect their studies. Parents should be like good gardeners who know how to prune the branches of trees and understand how to help children correct bad habits in their learning process. Children often unconsciously form some bad habits during their learning process, which can affect their studies. Parents should be like good gardeners who know how to prune the branches of trees and understand how to help children correct bad habits in their learning process. Correcting psychological misconceptions, facing up to behaviors in learning, attitude determines knowledge, achieving twice the result with half the effort is the shortcut, breaking the fortress of learning requires powerful weapons, and only by using one's brain wisely can one achieve outstanding results. In daily life and complex work, people naturally form a habit that is often overlooked—the habit of habit—is the key to determining whether a person's life is smooth or turbulent, successful or unsuccessful, optimistic or pessimistic, and frustrated or satisfied. Habits greatly influence human actions; without good habits, it is difficult to succeed; with bad habits, one absolutely cannot succeed. Habits are shaped by the accumulation of a person's actions and determine their character, thereby becoming a crucial factor in shaping one's life. Therefore, good habits can lead people toward a bright future, while bad habits lead them into the depths of darkness. Thus, for everyone, especially for children, it is essential to correct bad habits and guide them to transform these bad habits into good ones. Good habits are the key to success, while bad habits are stepping stones to failure. Russian education expert Ushinsky's remarks are even more profound: "Good habits are capital that a person deposits in their nervous system. This capital continuously grows, and throughout their entire life, they enjoy its interest. Bad habits are morally irreparable debts that can torture a person with continuously increasing interest, paralyze their best initiatives, and lead them to moral bankruptcy." In this book, we use many vivid and thought-provoking stories as "introductions." In most of the concluding sections addressing bad habits, we propose solutions to the problems we raise, hoping they can serve as references for parents dealing with similar issues rather than rigid rules. In fact, much of this book is a summary of successful parenting experiences. You will find that our hopes are also embedded in these solutions—"listening," "communication," "understanding"—creating a relaxed family environment and providing enough physical and mental freedom for children, rather than indulgence. In short, we believe that ideal family education requires not only the sincerity of parents but also patience and wisdom, which can gradually correct children's bad habits and guide them to develop good ones. If you lack wisdom and methods, relying only on simple and direct approaches, you may see little or no results. We hope your family education is relaxed yet not superficial, profound yet not rigid. Then, the higher requirement is to improve your own understanding and comprehension of education and its philosophy. Because you must know that education is not just a "unified" matter of school! We often place excessive expectations on the still imperfect school education while often neglecting the correct and necessary family education. May this book serve as a guiding light for you who have been confused and lost in correcting your children's bad habits, and sincerely hope you will put it into practice.