Children's literature is literature written for children. It originated from children's education, so its educational nature is one of its basic attributes. However, in the long-term historical development process, it has gradually broken away from the shackles of education and m

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Children's literature is literature written for children. It originated from children's education, so its educational nature is one of its basic attributes. However, in the long-term historical development process, it has gradually broken away from the shackles of education and moved closer to its own independent literary nature.

The original intention of children reading literary works is to seek fun, while didactic works often make people feel boring. The ultimate goal of education is to make people become human beings, rather than to shape or produce obedient people who have lost their individuality and suit a certain social ideology.

Children's literature is a literary style that pays attention to children's spiritual life and contains a great feeling of caring for human nature. To some extent, it can be said that it works together with children's education to build children's spiritual world. However, children's literature has its own literary characteristics and is by no means a tool, means or appendage of education.

1. Awakening the inner child

Excellent children's literature is not only suitable for children, but also for adults. Adults reading children's literature is of great significance to improving children's education. Through reading classic children's literature, the first thing is to awaken the inner child in adults, that is, the feeling of childhood.

"The Little Prince " by the French writer Saint-Exupery is not only a children's literature book that children like, but also a philosophical fairy tale suitable for adults to read. Anyone who has read "The Little Prince" will definitely remember the painting of a python swallowing an elephant.

The first work the author drew when he was six years old was shown to adults. They couldn't understand it and all said it was a hat. They even advised him to devote his attention to serious study. The artistic talent that sprouted in childhood was ruthlessly stifled.

On the other hand, this is not the case for adults in our real life. They are accustomed to imposing their will on their children and forcing them to learn things that they are not interested in at all. However, they rarely listen to their children and understand what they really want.

Adults don't understand children and always need explanations. They judge people based on their clothes and don't care about the friends themselves, but they think they understand a person based on their external conditions and affiliations.

Children are interested in all creatures of nature such as pythons, virgin forests, and stars, but adults are only interested in boring things derived from the adult world such as bridge, golf , politics, ties, etc. This shows how boring and boring the lives of adults are. They are in love with numbers, but they have lost the poetry and imagination of life.

The adults in the train are crowded in the carriage, but they don’t know what they are looking for. They are just carried forward by life in a muddle-headed manner. They only care about the destination, but turn a blind eye to the wonderful scenery along the way. It is the children who really know what they want. Their cherishment of rag dolls sometimes makes adults who abandon their feelings casually blush.

The objects from the alien planets visited by the little prince: the king who advocates power, the man who loves vanity, the idle drunkard, the greedy businessman, and the scholarly geographer are extremely representative in the real world and are completely allusions to the adult world. The author of

depicts a "picture of all living things" in the eyes of children through the perspective of the little prince, gently and implicitly satirizes all kinds of ugly phenomena in the adult world, and points out the ills that exist in the adult world to the point.

Adults generally cannot escape the word "fame and fortune" in their lives. They are either like the greedy businessman who dreams of taking the stars as his own, working hard and striving for fame and fortune, or like the drunkard who lives like a walking zombie and becomes a slave to life, living a life of nothingness in a daze all day long.

There are many weirdos on the earth who do not know what the real meaning of life is. The only exception is the lamplighter. He does things according to the rules meticulously, seemingly absurd but loyal to his duties.

The little prince likes him, maybe because he is the only one who does not patronize himself. At least the lamplighter does a poetic job. "Lighting up the street lamp is like waking up another sun or a flower." This is a very beautiful thing.

By reading children's literature regularly, you can learn to appreciate the world through a child's eyes, examine yourself and change your life.

In reality, adults always think that their own affairs are serious and important matters. They don’t know that for children, figuring out why flowers have thorns is also an important and serious matter. In the world of children, even the smallest things have their own unique perspectives.

Compared with the light and lively fairy tales that are popular nowadays, "The Little Prince" has both a beautiful lightness and a rational heaviness. Children can find interesting imagination and misunderstood sympathy, and adults can relive their childhood dreams and reflect on their current mentality. After reading

's works, it gives people long-term life inspiration and philosophical thinking. This is the charm of classics. While it enriches people's perceptual experience, it also inspires people to conduct their own spiritual reflection and in-depth rational thinking.

"The Little Prince" is a children's literature work, in fact it is a fairy tale written for adults. Because although simple children can appreciate the fun of stories and the charm of imagination, the profound meaning contained in the works is not something they can understand at that age.

Obviously, the author's real intention is to alert those adults and remind them to remember the fact that they were innocent children and how to explore the true meaning of life. However, the author did not preach with a straight face. All these implications were blended into the story of the little prince without any trace, making people slowly understand it.

Good children's literature is often like this. It breaks the limitations of time and space and belongs not only to children, but also to the world and all mankind. Works based on universal human nature can touch the depths of people's hearts and remind people of the fact that every adult was once a child.

Lindgren once said when talking about his creation, "I just want to make the child in my inner world happy, so that other children can get some happiness." Children's literature also touches people through emotions when awakening adults.

Everyone has his own "inner child" in his heart, which symbolizes his innocent and uninfluenced soul when he was young. Reading more children's literature is a beneficial awakening, awakening the "little prince" sleeping in everyone's heart, just like the little prince awakening the sleeping well in the desert.

When adults temporarily forget the turmoil in reality, forget about the practical knowledge of the world, and return to the true nature of human beings, life becomes interesting and rich.

2. Listen to children and understand childhood

Many excellent children's literature works have a diverse readership. They are not only written for children, but also for adults. Children's literature, especially children's novels , pay attention to children's spiritual life.

Adults can understand childhood by reading these works that express children's inner world, and can deepen their understanding of the nature of childhood, thereby revising their own views on children. Even if they cannot build a scientific and reasonable concept of children's education, it will inevitably give them some useful enlightenment.

For young parents, it is their unshirkable primary responsibility to take care of their children's bodies when they are young. However, as their children grow up, they need more spiritual care. At this time, parents often seem unable to do what they want.

Compared with theoretical works such as child psychology and pedagogy, children's literature provides a variety of stories for adults to understand children in a perceptual way. Through stories, we can understand the way many young children perceive the world and help them better understand children and childhood.

Children and adults are two different worlds. "In the order of all things, human beings have their place, and in the order of life, childhood has its place; adults should be regarded as adults, and children as children."

Every stage of life has its unique value and deserves to be cherished and respected. Childhood is particularly important because of its short duration and profound impact on life. Childhood is full of unknown secrets, and adults must make sincere efforts to unlock the codes. Good children's stories can fully demonstrate children's perspectives, experiences and psychological feelings.

Children's literary works can only provide perceptual experience. When implemented in educational practice, parents and teachers also need to learn to listen to children's inner voices in daily life, pay attention to children's spiritual growth, remain sensitive to children's interests, enthusiasm, fears and happiness, respect and meet children's growing psychological and emotional needs.

Adults reading children's literature are not only concerned about children's education, but also a kind of self-cultivation and improvement. Promoting adults to read children's literature does not encourage people to abandon their artistic vision, seek educational significance in children's literature for utilitarian purposes, and collect fragmented educational ideas.

Rather than letting them act as reading judges to review children's books and decide children's reading tastes, they should first experience the charm of children's literature as ordinary readers, and then introduce wonderful stories to children. At the same time, they can get useful inspiration from them and enhance their understanding of children.

Qualified parents are not born, they require continuous hard work and learning. Their mission is to guide their children to grow up happily in the experience of love and freedom. True love is to let everyone become the best version of themselves.

3. Growing up with children

Whether it is family education , school education or social education, the object of education should not only refer to children. The kind of person a child grows into is not only cultivated by reading, but also closely related to the real environment in which he lives. This mainly depends on what kind of world adults provide for their children.

Children are not accessories to adults. They have their own preferences and talents. In reality, many parents often regard their children as their own property, pouring all their personal wishes, will and pressure into their children, but never value their children's own wishes.

They feel that they can lead their children into a better future world, and they preset the direction of life for their children very early. They sacrifice the immediate happiness of childhood in exchange for so-called "success", which often leaves irreparable shortcomings and damage to their children's lives.