Let the hildren Lag Behind at the Starting Line.docVIP

Let the Children Lag Behind at the Starting Line “Never let the children lag behind at the starting line.” as a message of Ashly, it rapidly popularizes in our society, and it even becomes an educational idea which gains countless practitioners. In recent years, more and more students have been spending their weekends on various training classes since they were little young, and all kinds of training institutions have been emerging in endlessly. There has been such a phenomenon: parents are treating early-education more seriously than before, and everybody hopes their child to be a genius in others eyes. People clash on the question of whether children need to receive the early-education. Some years ago, a kind of educational style caused a sensation in America, which was the education of Tiger Mother. The term “Tiger Mother” was first popularized by Amy Chua, a Chinese-American mother who swept both US and Chinese with her book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she described the strict upbringing of her two daughters. She took up a very authoritarian stance, laying down many rules. There was something that her daughters were never allowed to do, such as “choosing their own extracurricular activities”, because it would waste time in her mother’s mind. “Getting any grade less than an A” and “not playing the piano or the violin” were never allowed either, which had sparked furious online debate. In addition, the Wolf Dad and the Eagle Dad have also been heating up on the Internet. However, this kind of educational style sparks questions and conversations. People are thinking whether we should be so strict with children or not. In my point of view, children don’t need to receive the early-education but to enjoy their childhood. If life is a 100-meter race and the time is limited, the metaphor of “starting line” is appropriate, because we have to try our best to rush to the finishing line. In such races,