14 years old, what are you doing? Should you "can't extricate yourself" in the vast sea of questions, or do you still remember it in the Internet world?
has a 14-year-old Chinese teenager Josh Reisner who chooses to become a hero in the real world.
10 was a hit by entering the quarterfinals of the TV show "Little Chef God" and became a household name. He also became a chef in New York, where restaurants are numerous.
No one would have thought that a good student who was serious about taking a pen in class would pick up the kitchen knife and spoon after class and turned into a master of the master's palm. Every day, customers came to see each other.
Josh Reisner was born in a family that loves food. Since childhood, Josh's parents have taken him to mingle in restaurants of different styles and tasted delicious food.
"I never order children's meals for him. What adults eat, let him try as long as he wants."
tastes all kinds of ingredients and visits all kinds of restaurants. The delicious food stimulated Josh's taste buds and also aroused his curiosity in the birth process of these foods.
3, he can clearly remember the food he had eaten when he got up, and he staggered to run to the kitchen whenever he had time. Seeing his seriousness, my mother enrolled him in a children's cooking class.
The first major choice in life happened at that time.
10 years old, with the recommendation of the training class teacher, the confident little Josh signed up for the reality show "Little Chef God" on the American Fox TV station.
passed the qualifying and entered the quarterfinals, but in the end it was still unable to reach the end.
In fact, Josh's cooking talent is really not inferior to anyone present, but at that time he did not understand the meaning of cooking to him.
Josh did not stay in the shadow of the game's defeat for too long, but instead realized the importance of cooking to him. "The chef is my career that I want to be a lifelong career." He said firmly.
and the family has never given up on their support for him.
For him, my mother was the best teacher, taking him into the cooking door, and my father was the smartest person, who always helped him solve the confusion on his growth path.
And my dearest sister has always been by his side. They eat delicious food together, cut their hair short together, and grow together.
Josh began to intern in his spare time to hone his cooking skills, from the famous cooking school Brooklyn kitchen, to the ramen laboratory of the top ramen brand Sun Noodle, to the wine and food festivals in New York, Miami , and Hawaii. There are little Josh everywhere. He is like a little mouse with a keen sense of smell, and is eager for food.
Let go of your ambitions, follow your heart, slowly polish your skills, and do the current things well. As Josh said, "I hope to do more, I will do more. "
1. Don't worry that your children want to take the "unusual path"
Every parent hopes that their children can have a good future and excel, but at the same time we are afraid that their children will be different from others.
Just like when we were young, kindergarten teachers often pointed to the red circular pattern and asked us what this was. Children who said it was the sun would give a little red flower, but if it was the duck egg yolk, they would be rolled.
But who said the answer is definitely the sun?
The child’s creativity is erased in this process.
Internationally renowned dancer Xu Fangyi once talked about his experiences since childhood in a TED speech, which impressed me deeply.
She said that her parents have low education and it is not easy for her father to start from scratch, so her parents’ expectations for them are to study hard, and they can be a teacher and sit in the office in the future, so they don’t have to work so hard every day.
Xu Fangyi has been the one who is least expected at home since she was a child. She works very hard, but every time she opens a book, she feels that it is the book reading her, not her reading her, so her homework is naturally not good.
Family members always say that if their homework still does not improve, they will have to go out to work as a female worker in the future.
Xu Fangyi was very scared inside. She dared not have dreams, and she dared not think because she had poor homework and felt that she had no future and had no future.
Until the age of 19, Xu Fangyi met Ross Parkers, a famous Australian dance teacher. The teacher said inadvertently, "This child has great potential", which moved Xu Fangyi very much. She never thought that there were anyone in this world who had expectations for her. It was also from that day that Xu Fangyi was no longer afraid. She dared to dream, wanted to have dreams, and wanted to become a professional dancer.
Xu Fangyi's story tells us that it is not only children who study well to succeed, but success is to bring talent to the extreme.
In the movie "Stars on Earth", there is a line like this: "I want to tell you that there are people among us who can change the world because they look at the world with different perspectives. Their ideas are different. Not everyone can understand them. They were isolated, but once they succeed, they will shock the world."
Good parents are never afraid of their children being different. They understand that every child has his own talent, and they will also help their children to make their talents free.
2. Children's interests need to be carefully cultivated
Every family has their own parenting methods. Among the celebrities, many parents are good at educating their children. I admire the way they educate their children in Yi Nengjing .
Yi Nengjing respects her son very much and says that her son has been very independent since childhood. When encountering problems, they will discuss it and rarely refute her son. Every time she listens carefully, she says that although she is a nagging mother, she is also a very good mother.
Regarding the future, the little prince has great ideas, painting, lyrics and composition, photography, dance, and choreography. He has specified what to learn since he was a child. Yi Nengjing said that what he could do is to increase his aesthetic ability, take him to see exhibitions, play restaurants, travel, and find the best teachers.
Although the little prince is very talented, when Yi Nengjing discovered that he had talent for painting, he was only three years old. Because he was young and tired of painting, he wanted to give up.
At this time, Yi Nengjing would remind her son: "Then don't draw, watch TV every week. I let you choose, this life is yours, you are fully responsible. God gives everyone the same talent. Some people are willing to give 100% and are grateful, while others are only willing to work 20% and still complain about fatigue. The person who takes back this talent is never God, but yourself."
The next day, the little prince gave Yi Nengjing a note, which reads: God has given you seeds, but it depends on you to blossom.
The little prince is very smart and immediately understood Yi Nengjing's words.
The little prince is lucky. He has Yi Nengjing who respects the child like this. When encountering problems, Yi Nengjing will not give the answer directly, but let the little prince choose by himself.
Yi Nengjing said that the answer to the question is a person's life logic. If telling the answer directly to his son, it is tantamount to copying himself. She hopes that his son can pay for the consequences of every choice he chooses, which he needs to bear.
3. Intellectual parents know how to follow the times
As parents, it is easy for us to add to our children's education. We hope that children can learn to share, hope that children have a sense of movement, and hope that children can master various skills. Because we always want our children to be more perfect and stronger.
However, in the process of teaching our children to learn, we often forget to slow down and do subtraction. Sometimes, slowing down appropriately and respecting the child’s growth rules will be exactly what you can achieve with half the effort.
The children of relatives' families have just turned two years old and their parents have begun to worry about their children's education issues. Let’s send a kindergarten. The country has regulations that you cannot enter the kindergarten under the age of three. After thinking about it, you sent your child to a private kindergarten.
As a result, the child was too young and suddenly went to a strange environment. He could not adapt for a while and could not fully understand the teacher's instructions, which caused him to have a lot of emotional fluctuations. He often cried and had poor resistance. He caught a cold within two days. When the child gets sick, the parents get angry, which is really counterproductive.
Parents always hope that their children can excel. They have shown excessive attention to education since they were young, emphasizing that they should let their children win at the starting line.
But Huang Lei has a saying, I especially like it: "I especially oppose there is a saying: Win at the starting line. Anyone who wins at the starting line is a sprint. Have you ever seen a marathon running? Life is a marathon, it is definitely not a sprint. Let children have a good attitude towards life and slowly understand their own life."
Ken Robinson, the world's most influential educator, once compared education to the valley of death. He said that every child is like a seed that is dormant, waiting for the opportunity and waiting for the opportunity to come. And good education is nutrition.
Humans are born with different characteristics, but we always like to use the same standards to demand children. This is also the most worthy of reflection on education.
Insighted parents will subtract education. They know how to respect the growth rules of children at different stages and understand the individual differences of children. When we subtract unnecessary anxiety, we will find that the trust and growth that children give us will exceed our imagination.
As the famous educator Marva said: "No teacher and parents can teach you everything. Many things in this world need to be explored by yourself. It is important to keep your enthusiasm and curiosity."
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