{"id":2911,"date":"2011-08-01T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/xin_zhong_xian_20110801\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:23:00","slug":"xin_zhong_xian_20110801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/01\/xin_zhong_xian_20110801\/","title":{"rendered":"How read\u00ading let\u00adters and chat\u00adting can help chil\u00addren become more mature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ques\u00adtion: My daugh\u00adter is 9 years old and has read a lot of books here, but her think\u00ading is too sim\u00adple. She avoids prob\u00adlems and doesn\u2019t like to think. How can I make her more mature?<\/em><br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nAnswer: First of all, thank you for your con\u00adtin\u00adued sup\u00adport and trust in Hong\u00adni\u00adba!<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nHow\u00adev\u00ader, your ques\u00adtion is indeed not easy to answer. I hope to pro\u00advide one or two exam\u00adples to make some judg\u00adment.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nIn gen\u00ader\u00adal terms, the read\u00ading we advo\u00adcate is \u201cread\u00ading books, read\u00ading peo\u00adple, and read\u00ading the world.\u201d Read\u00ading is a part of life, omnipresent. Calm and ele\u00adgant read\u00ading can puri\u00adfy the soul, broad\u00aden one\u2019s hori\u00adzons, and enlight\u00aden one\u2019s wis\u00addom\u2026<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nRead\u00ading for chil\u00addren is an inter\u00adest\u00ading process of growth, encom\u00adpass\u00ading both the child\u2019s own growth and that of the adults around them. For exam\u00adple, dif\u00adfer\u00adent peo\u00adple have com\u00adplete\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent views on the rate of growth. Specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, how far should a nine-year-old girl grow to be con\u00adsid\u00adered a sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adto\u00adry (or desir\u00adable) state? This judg\u00adment is often based on adult expec\u00adta\u00adtions. The same state may be con\u00adsid\u00adered pre\u00adma\u00adture when we expect it to be more child\u00adlike, or child\u00adish when we expect it to be more mature. As chil\u00addren grow, we adults grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly learn to view their devel\u00adop\u00adment more nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly and calm\u00adly. This, in itself, is a les\u00adson in our own growth. And this is pre\u00adcise\u00adly part of read\u00ading.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nMy daugh\u00adter, who\u2019s almost 12, has recent\u00adly become obsessed with Anne of Green Gables (which I actu\u00adal\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded to her before). She\u2019s been urg\u00ading me to reread it care\u00adful\u00adly (I\u2019d only skimmed through it before) and even invit\u00aded her moth\u00ader to read it too. I asked her why she want\u00aded us to read it togeth\u00ader, and she said, \u201cBecause Anne is so imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive!\u201d So I reread it care\u00adful\u00adly and slow\u00adly, and I was struck by how cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading it is! After fin\u00adish\u00ading it, I felt like life is tru\u00adly won\u00adder\u00adful!<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nI\u2019d also like to rec\u00adom\u00admend this to you and your daugh\u00adter, as it might beau\u00adti\u00adful\u00adly demon\u00adstrate the cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading pow\u00ader of a child\u2019s spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal world. While such works may not direct\u00adly con\u00adtribute to more mature think\u00ading, they cer\u00adtain\u00adly offer a sub\u00adlime aes\u00adthet\u00adic, allow\u00ading us to re-eval\u00adu\u00adate the world we live in. We can see how mag\u00adi\u00adcal the triv\u00adi\u00adal\u00adi\u00adties and ordi\u00adnary moments can be if we can apply our imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion to them, allow\u00ading us to feel a sense of hap\u00adpi\u00adness and joy every day.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nI\u2019ve always won\u00addered how chil\u00addren\u2019s \u201cthink\u00ading\u201d about the world might dif\u00adfer rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly from that of adults. The for\u00admer, when mea\u00adsured by the lat\u00adter, is clear\u00adly imma\u00adture, while the lat\u00adter, when mea\u00adsured by the for\u00admer, lacks much of its vital\u00adi\u00adty. Just as the fruits and veg\u00adeta\u00adbles that grow in each sea\u00adson are dif\u00adfer\u00adent, per\u00adhaps the \u201cthink\u00ading\u201d that emerges in each grow\u00ading sea\u00adson is also dif\u00adfer\u00adent.<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u95ee\uff1a\u5973\u513f9\u5c81\uff0c\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u4e5f\u8bfb\u4e86\u4e0d\u5c11\u7684\u4e66\uff0c\u601d\u60f3\u592a\u5355\u7eaf\uff0c\u9047\u5230\u95ee\u9898\u9003\u907f\uff0c\u4e0d\u7231\u601d\u8003\uff0c\u600e\u6837\u8ba9\u5979\u66f4\u6210\u719f\u4e00\u70b9\u3002 \u00a0 \u7b54\uff1a\u9996\u5148\u8c22\u8c22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[93,336,338,337,78,26],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timemachine","tag-93","tag-336","tag-338","tag-337","tag-78","tag-26"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}