How to Discipline Children: A Teaching Diary by Professor Li with a Big Nose

Author: Li Baijian
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
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1. Kiss, the highest reward purpose Your child is in the kindergarten or preschool stage. Although they seem not to understand, in fact they have already been able to experience or understand the most beautiful emotions of humans—love. Love is the most basic and important part of aesthetic education. Letting children understand love, enjoy love, and also learn to love all the people or things they should give love to, makes love an important topic in early education.
Examples Don’t look at the children in kindergarten or preschool—they’re all over the place, playing and fooling around all day, seemingly without any thoughts or sensitive emotions. In reality, they pay close attention to the actions of their parents, caregivers, and teachers. Among these actions, the most important and most influential on children might be patting their heads, kissing their little faces, or hugging them tightly.
At first, we didn’t think “patting the head,” “kissing the face,” or “hugging tightly” had any significant impact on the children. When they were happy, we’d hug and kiss them; when they did something interesting or said something funny, we’d hug and kiss them; or when we were about to leave for kindergarten or come home, it had become a habit to hug and kiss them. That’s all.
One day, when guests came to our house, we were busy preparing dinner for them. The child was picked up from kindergarten by our neighbor. Seeing his mother cutting fish, he shouted, “Mom, I’m home!” His wife just gave a quick reply and went back to cooking. “Dad,” he called out to me, “I’m back!” I just said casually, “You’re here? Okay, go play by yourself.”