{"id":1251,"date":"2010-01-13T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/xing_fu_de_20100113\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:40:09","slug":"xing_fu_de_20100113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2010\/01\/13\/xing_fu_de_20100113\/","title":{"rendered":"A hap\u00adpy fam\u00adi\u00adly is the breed\u00ading ground for per\u00adfect edu\u00adca\u00adtion or the \u201cGood Dad Code\u201d\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe edi\u00adtor insist\u00aded on invit\u00ading me to write a few words for \u201cWhat to Do When You Grow Up,\u201d which is includ\u00aded in the \u201cGold\u00aden Chil\u00addren\u2019s Books Famous Writ\u00aders\u2019 Selec\u00adtion.\u201d I read this love\u00adly pic\u00adture book care\u00adful\u00adly and could\u00adn\u2019t help but smile. I guess I guessed the edi\u00adtor\u2019s inten\u00adtion, because this book real\u00adly seems to be writ\u00adten for fathers like me.
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\nWho exact\u00adly are these \u201cdads like me\u201d? Sim\u00adply put, they\u2019re peo\u00adple who view being a father as a career. Just like the lit\u00adtle bun\u00adny in this book, when his father rais\u00ades the ques\u00adtion, \u201cWhat will my baby be when he grows up?\u201d the whole fam\u00adi\u00adly offers sug\u00adges\u00adtions and guess\u00ades. And what a large fam\u00adi\u00adly! Besides mom and dad, there are broth\u00aders, sis\u00adters, grand\u00adpa, grand\u00adma, uncles, aunts, cousins\u2026 Their guess\u00ades range from police offi\u00adcers, clowns, cow\u00adboys, pilots, fire\u00adfight\u00aders, train dri\u00advers, ani\u00admal train\u00aders, can\u00addy store own\u00aders, pedi\u00ada\u00adtri\u00adcians, farm\u00aders, and so on\u2014literally, every\u00adthing. If the fam\u00adi\u00adly were larg\u00ader, they\u2019d prob\u00ada\u00adbly list all 360 pro\u00adfes\u00adsions. But the lit\u00adtle bun\u00adny has his own ideas. In his mind, even the most excit\u00ading pro\u00adfes\u00adsions pale in com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson to his ideal\u2014being a good dad!
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\nObvi\u00adous\u00adly, \u201cdads like me\u201d are no longer bun\u00adny boys, but rather burly men with some suc\u00adcess in their cho\u00adsen pro\u00adfes\u00adsions. So why do they empathize with this bun\u00adny boy? The rea\u00adson is sim\u00adple: it\u2019s the way it should be. Being a good father does\u00adn\u2019t con\u00adflict with one\u2019s pro\u00adfes\u00adsion, but as a human endeav\u00ador, being a good father is incred\u00adi\u00adbly impor\u00adtant and should be a required course for every man\u2019s devel\u00adop\u00adment. This is the mes\u00adsage that the cre\u00adators, the Scar\u00adrys, attempt to con\u00advey in \u201cWhat to Do When You Grow Up.\u201d
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\n\u201cGold\u00aden Books\u201d is a super-sell\u00ading brand of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s book illus\u00adtra\u00adtor Richard Scar\u00adry. This short book, first pub\u00adlished in 1955, is one of his ear\u00adly works and the prod\u00aduct of a close col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion with his wife, Pat\u00adsy. Scar\u00adry was born in 1919. His child\u00adhood and ado\u00adles\u00adcence coin\u00adcid\u00aded with the Great Depres\u00adsion, but this seemed to have no impact on his devel\u00adop\u00adment. He had a very hap\u00adpy fam\u00adi\u00adly. His par\u00adents owned a store and were both devot\u00aded to their chil\u00addren, cre\u00adat\u00ading a relaxed atmos\u00adphere. Raised in an atmos\u00adphere of love, care, and respect, Scar\u00adry infused these val\u00adues into his pic\u00adture books. His son, Richard Scar\u00adry Jr., also grew up to become a pic\u00adture book illus\u00adtra\u00adtor.
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\nThe post-Great Depres\u00adsion era in the Unit\u00aded States last cen\u00adtu\u00adry also marked a gold\u00aden age for Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture and edu\u00adca\u00adtion. When over\u00adheat\u00aded peo\u00adple cooled down, they per\u00adhaps came to real\u00adize that life\u2019s hap\u00adpi\u00adness was\u00adn\u2019t sim\u00adply tied to eco\u00adnom\u00adic pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty, and that exces\u00adsive mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal desires only led to rest\u00adless\u00adness and con\u00adfu\u00adsion. Roland Wilder\u2019s \u201cLit\u00adtle House on the Prairie\u201d series was pub\u00adlished dur\u00ading this peri\u00adod. Its depic\u00adtions of pio\u00adneer fam\u00adi\u00adly life on the prairie delight\u00aded chil\u00addren and prompt\u00aded pro\u00adfound reflec\u00adtion among adults. Between the 1940s and 1960s, the Unit\u00aded States expe\u00adri\u00adenced a baby boom, with over 70 mil\u00adlion babies born, account\u00ading for approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly one-third of the U.S. pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion. Nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly, the \u201cgold\u00aden books\u201d pub\u00adlished dur\u00ading this era, with their clear and con\u00adcise nar\u00adra\u00adtives and heart\u00adwarm\u00ading illus\u00adtra\u00adtions, which extol the joys of hap\u00adpy and ful\u00adfill\u00ading fam\u00adi\u00adly life, were immense\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar. Today, in 21st-cen\u00adtu\u00adry Chi\u00adna, we reread these works and find them equal\u00adly insight\u00adful.
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\nI often hear peo\u00adple say that the great\u00adest strength of clas\u00adsic for\u00adeign chil\u00addren\u2019s books is that they con\u00adtain lit\u00adtle or no preach\u00ading. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly true. This book, \u201cWhat to Do When You Grow Up,\u201d has quite a few didac\u00adtic ele\u00adments. For exam\u00adple, the sto\u00adry fea\u00adtures var\u00adi\u00adous fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adbers, teach\u00ading chil\u00addren to dis\u00adtin\u00adguish between fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adbers. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, the sto\u00adry not only teach\u00ades young read\u00aders about the var\u00adi\u00adous pro\u00adfes\u00adsions, but also about treat\u00ading every\u00adone equal\u00adly, regard\u00adless of sta\u00adtus. It even out\u00adlines sev\u00ader\u00adal require\u00adments for being a good father:<\/p>\n

   
\n1. Feed the babies and don\u2019t let them go hun\u00adgry;
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\n2. You should enjoy play\u00ading games with your chil\u00addren;
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\n3. Give chil\u00addren gifts on their birth\u00addays;
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\n4. Tell them sto\u00adries before going to bed every day;
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\n5. When it\u2019s time to go to bed, car\u00adry the chil\u00addren to bed.<\/p>\n

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\nLook how spe\u00adcif\u00adic these require\u00adments are! They\u2019re all just ser\u00admons, but they\u2019re said in an inter\u00adest\u00ading and fun way. No one will refuse a fun ser\u00admon.
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\nAs the cre\u00adator, Scar\u00adry sim\u00adply wants to tell adult read\u00aders this truth through such sto\u00adries: edu\u00adcat\u00ading chil\u00addren is fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly about cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading a sense of hap\u00adpi\u00adness, and cre\u00adat\u00ading a hap\u00adpy and har\u00admo\u00adnious fam\u00adi\u00adly atmos\u00adphere may itself be the most per\u00adfect edu\u00adca\u00adtion.
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\nThis kind of preach\u00ading res\u00adonates with me.
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