"Once Upon a Slow" once wrote: The past days became slower, cars, horses, and emails were slow, and they were only enough to love one person in their lifetime...
There was no mobile phone or the Internet. In the past, we contacted them all rely on letters. The slower the letter comes, the more excited the person who opens the letter. He will carefully savor every word in it and chew it over and over again.
Now, let alone letters, even a postcard is too luxurious. Electronic products replace handwriting, and more and more words can't be written, and I don't even know how to buy stamps and send letters.
has developed technology, making our communication more convenient, and you can hear and see the pictures anytime, anywhere. But I wonder, is this less suffering from waiting and the joy of harvest? ?
In September, I was deeply inspired after reading Chen Yunbin and his father Chen Deqin jointly edited "Letters from Grandfather" . I decisively borrowed the way my grandfather wrote to my grandson every day, and wrote more than a dozen letters to Niki and Nick intermittently.
is currently written on a Niki's notebook. Every time she finishes reading , she will write two replies to me . The small notebook has become the second way of communication besides words between us.
likes beautiful notebooks, whether you write or read, you are more happy
Niki is not around during the holidays, so I wrote it and posted it on her phone watch. Later I printed it down and posted it on the
Nick with less literacy, of course, less content, larger fonts
After I plan to write to her regularly using letter paper and envelopes, such as once a week. This will appear more formal, allowing her to feel the profound meaning and charm of the traditional letters, provided that I can write words with deep meaning, haha, come on
, and plan to teach Niki to write letters to Nick, and then post stamps and mail them to Nick. Let the sense of ritual and words deepen the relationship between siblings, and at the same time, it can also exercise sister's writing.
OK. Go back to the topic, I will give you a brief introduction to "Letters from Grandfather" .
book is a collection of 1,000 letters written by my grandfather during the process of accompanying and educating his grandson Xuanxuan, from the age of three to elementary school.
Letters convey my grandfather’s deep love for his children, and also teaches children how to learn in the letter, and teaches them to be close to nature, cherish family affection, understand filial piety, and understand self-worth.
In the daily letter, grandpa will add different prefixes to grandson Xuanxuan , either encouraging, praising, or expecting. It seems meaningless, but it implies the words my grandfather wants to convey to his grandson.
For example, "Mr. Zhang Yixuan, who already knows a lot of words", "Little friend Zhang Yixuan, who loves reading", "Little friend Daxuan, who is very curious", etc....
This is called tagging (hint) in children's educational psychology. When a child is in a good hint every day, he is unlikely to become bad, but he is more likely to become the way you hint, forming a virtuous cycle, and getting better and better!
Grandpa is a professor at of Normal University. He understands education very well and also knows children's psychology very well. Therefore, in the letters written to my grandson, my grandfather never talks about the big truths. He always regards himself as his child's friend and places himself in the same position as his child to communicate with him6.
Grandpa would not instill ideas from the beginning, but always guided things step by step and discussed things. It gradually penetrated every word and sentence, allowing children to learn a lot of knowledge.
The whole process of the child is also very happy and thinks it is all his own achievements.
You may feel that it is irrelevant to read my grandfather’s daily letters alone, but as long as you look at it coherently, you will find that with the follow-up of the letters over the years, the principles of being a human being, common sense of life, and even some subject knowledge have been integrated into it one by one.
Grandpa The poems attached to the letters are every day. was also carefully selected and matched the situation of that day or that period.
It was only after I read the poems that my grandfather gave me that I learned about the existence of palindrome poems and pagoda poems and . It is particularly interesting. It turns out that in addition to five-character seven-character , poetry can also play like this. The layout of
books is also very concise and clear. Each page is a letter, " time---child age----principle of letter-----recommendation of letter-----supplement of mother (Chen Yunbin)".
Each letter ends with Mom (Chen Yunbin) supplemented the incident or letter of the day , describing the reason and purpose of grandfather's letter in more detail, and sometimes explaining the choice of poetry. Typesetting such as
is particularly convenient for us to write letters , especially if we don’t know what to write. Just look at the head of the page to find the same time, child's age or the purpose of writing , and then refer to it and write it.
Now I will write to Niki and try to match a poem as much as possible. If you really can't remember it, just read "Letter from Grandpa's Family" and read the poems given by Grandpa on the same date or similar incidents and transfer them directly. Then take Niki to read it and recite it. Because this was originally a task of memorizing poetry every day as the head teacher required.
Sometimes, I will also intersperse several English words or short English sentences in the letter . The content of is related to the current time/situation. By the way, help Niki learn English briefly. After all, he is the most proficient in this regard. The handwritten letters of
are not just a letter, but also contain the love of the writer.
I think this is the meaning of faith.
Hope, love, can accompany them through their unique life.
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