After "The Lonely Brave", "A Spades" also swept the kindergarten. Unlike the former, the lyrics of the latter are simple and straightforward, and there are adult expressions such as "Long legs are one foot-eight waist, I just want to kiss your mouth at this moment."
Hearing the children singing excitedly and dancing dynamic and happy steps, more and more people liked and imitated it. However, when a three or four-year-old child sang "Baby, let's have a drink" and "Which perfume is this paired with the beauty of the night that makes me successfully fall into a heart-warming atmosphere", and learned from kindergarten, some parents began to worry: Are these adult saliva songs really suitable for children?
"Spade A" children's dance teaching video screenshot. Online screenshot
A working kindergarten teacher said that he does use a light-paced pop song in daily activities, which can easily arouse children's interest. However, adult saliva songs are not directly introduced into the classroom, and usually only borrow melodies or adapt and create lyrics before using them to ensure that children are exposed to positive content.
Li Yan, vice dean and professor of the School of Preschool Education, Shanghai Normal University, believes that adult-oriented music and dance are not suitable for children, and they cannot be used for kindergarten teaching. Children will absorb and learn from various activities and develop their own values and behavioral patterns. Schools and parents should screen educational content, provide positive and healthy entertainment methods, and be vigilant about dependence on and being used on the Internet.
Kindergarten children sang "A Spades"
November 15, a netizen told the Pengpai News reporter that a kindergarten in Xi'an is teaching children to dance "A Spades". The song content is vulgar, and there are many similar children's dance teaching videos on Douyin.
The complainant Ms. Wang introduced that her child is over 3 years old and is in the middle class. On November 13, someone mentioned this song in the parent group. The lyrics include "Hey Ah Ah, you are my baby, the feeling of missing you is faintly due to the influence of you", "Let's have a drink, baby", "Long legs are 1,000 waist, I just want to kiss your mouth at this moment."
Ms. Wang played music and confirmed with the child, and the child had already sang with him. Other parents also reported that the child would sing and dance. "He said that he would play it every day when he entered the kindergarten, and sometimes the teacher would play it in the classroom. The 3-year-old child could not believe everything he spoke, but he would sing and not only played it for one or two days."
Ms. Wang was worried, I wonder how many such html there are. l1 children's dance is circulating online. "I personally think this is no less than the impact of problem teaching materials on children. It is not ruled out that many kindergartens are teaching children to dance directly."
reporters found that "A Spades" singing and dancing are quite popular on Douyin . The dance movements are both adult versions and children's versions. The lyrics are consistent. The highest one among them is the most liked by children's dance teaching video. On Weibo , netizens from many places said that when they heard the kindergarten play the song, the children sang and danced, and even sang "Baby, let's have a drink" when they took a shower at home.
Many netizens said that they had heard the play "A Spades" in kindergartens. Weibo screenshot
video comment section, someone left a message to teach children to dance, and there were also many doubts, "It's not suitable for children, the lyrics are too that kind of lyrics." "Children don't know the meaning of the lyrics, which does not mean that adults don't have to be responsible for their value orientation."
In addition to "A Spades", there are also some internet celebrity songs with obvious lyrics that express obvious adulthood and are also used to match children's dance. With a small body, innocent smile, and cheerful dance steps, netizens called it "super touching" and "very cute". But listening carefully, the lyrics seem to be a bit inconsistent with the three or four-year-old child.
Kindergarten teacher teaches " Motocross " action. Online screenshot
How to introduce popular songs in kindergarten
In September this year, there was a video on the Internet " Male kindergarten teacher takes children to dance passionately with spades A", and the atmosphere on the scene was lively.In the video, a teacher named Wang said in an interview that the children in kindergarten particularly like passionate and lively dances. At that time, he happened to see the video of "A Spades" and wanted to take the children to dance. Everyone was very excited.
Kindergarten teaching "Spades A". Online screenshot
Browse social media platforms. Many kindergartens will introduce online pop songs as teaching content, but how to grasp the introduction standards? The reporter consulted a Shanghai Kindergarten teacher who had been in the industry for 6 years.
She said that kindergartens will choose music with clear rhythm and light rhythm to introduce teaching, but the lyrics must be positive. Children are greatly affected by the environment and like to imitate and learn, especially some popular content, which can resonate more, so parents and teachers are very important to check.
In teaching, she and her colleagues can use pop songs, but not adult songs. "For example, some children's songs on TikTok, we will use them when we determine the content of the song is appropriate, usually as the background music for the activity. Adult pop songs will not be directly introduced into classroom teaching, but they are not completely rejected. We may borrow the rhythms that children are interested in as accompaniment, eliminate the lyrics, or adapt the lyrics to create."
However, she emphasized that the proportion of pop songs used in early childhood teaching is very low. Taking her daily teaching as an example, the municipal education department will provide a catalog of materials available for kindergartens, including music and singing, dance rhythm, etc., which have been professionally approved to meet the age characteristics of young children. These are the most important teaching contents.
Scholar: Adult music and dance are not suitable for children, and will be deeply rooted in his values
Regarding the spread of children's dance "A Spades", Li Yan, vice dean and professor of the School of Preschool Education of Shanghai Normal University, said that adult music and dance are obviously not suitable for children, and there are even more problems if the kindergarten plays or teaches.
Some netizens believe that children just like to sing and dance to the rhythm and don’t understand the meaning of the lyrics at all. Do they need to be so strict? Li Yan said that the more children like what they like, the more they can shape their values and behavior patterns. It is in the process of acceptance and learning that children complete socialization. "A three-year-old child does not understand, but he will gradually understand. These things will be deeply rooted in his values and even give a special color to a generation. Therefore, kindergartens should be particularly cautious in choosing educational materials."
According to the " Kindergarten Work Regulations " implemented in March 2016 in my country, kindergarten education should follow the laws of physical and mental development of children, conform to the age characteristics of children, pay attention to individual differences, teach according to people, and guide the healthy development of children's personalities; comprehensively organize educational content in various fields of health, language, society, science, and art, penetrate into various activities of children's daily life, and give full play to the interaction of various educational means.
"It is understandable that kindergartens choose pop music, because children's lives also need to be stimulated and entertained, but this choice should be positive and positive content." Li Yan believes that when choosing teaching content, kindergartens and families should screen and judge value, including the values they promote, the standards they advocate, the purpose of their behavior, the dress and actions of the characters, etc. These all invisibly shape children's cognition and behavior.
network has gradually blurred the boundaries between adults and children, causing some popular culture to spread among groups of different ages. Li Yan specifically mentioned the concept of "online child labor". Sometimes, as Internet participants, children will be unconsciously used as online laborers to attract traffic. For example, children imitating adult dance videos are popular online, and children may be passively accepting content that is not in line with age.
"Even if it is not vulgar content, the Internet itself deserves alertness. It is shaping children's life and learning methods." Li Yan further explained, for example, the short and fast language in pop songs, long-term contact may be detrimental to children's language acquisition; the constantly changing content in short video platforms has no time limit, one ends and continues to the next, affecting children's control and attention.
In addition to controlling vulgar content, Li Yan also recommends reducing the dependence on the Internet - otherwise the child will think that many things can be obtained from the Internet instead of exploring and practicing in person, which may have adverse effects on attitudes and beliefs in life and learning.
