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while some parents are frantically enrolling their children in tutoring classes and study tours, the jiwa track has quietly changed.

some parents would rather spend money and effort to let their children learn farming in the suburbs of the city, facing the loess and back to the sky, instead of spending a lot of money to let their children learn math olympiads, answer questions, and learn piano...

is it that the old-fashioned chicken dolls have made parents completely unable to roll them up, or is it that more and more people are realizing that the chicken dolls are too low in cost performance and have many problems?

and will the new "chicken babies" who bring their children to farm really allow their children to live a pastoral life without involution? do parents pay more than traditional chicken babies? a series of issues are worthy of discussion.

li ting can no longer remember how many times she was approached by the teacher. the reasons are basically the same. my daughter laughs and is active, and runs around in the corridor after class, and is criticized as a typical example by the director of the education department; gallop...

the school's rule is that students can only leave their seats during class breaks to use the restroom.

every time she received a complaint call from a teacher, li ting kept saying, "okay, okay, we must educate our children well." but when facing her child, she couldn't criticize her. was her daughter really wrong?

now that xiaoxiao is in third grade, li ting received praise from her teacher for the first time, saying that her child's behavior is getting better and better and she no longer walks around casually.

li ting had mixed feelings in her heart. she knew that her child could no longer play. at home, i like to hold my mobile phone. at school, i sit on my seat, chatting about games with my classmates, or secretly exchange various cards. what saddens li ting the most is that xiaoxiao, who is just in third grade, is already short-sighted.

li ting saw data from the national health commission on the internet that the overall myopia rate among children and adolescents nationwide in 2022 will be close to 60%!

the doctor who examined xiaoxiao's eyes said that a lack of outdoor exercise was a major cause of myopia in children. children who spend less time outdoors and spend a lot of time using their eyes at close range have a myopia incidence rate that is 2.3 times higher than children who spend more time outdoors and spend a lot of time studying at close range.

outdoor activities are recognized as the most economical and effective way to prevent myopia in children and adolescents. when engaging in outdoor activities, the average outdoor light received is about 20 times that of ordinary indoor light. such strong light exposure will increase retinal illumination, increase dopamine release, and inhibit the growth of the axial length of the eye.

doctors' advice is that you can effectively prevent myopia by spending enough time outdoors, whether you're exercising or not. as long as the child stays out of the sun, no matter what you do, you can reduce the risk of myopia. primary and secondary school students need more than 2 hours of daytime outdoor time every day, while kindergarten children need more than 3 hours of daytime outdoor activities every day.

today’s children are far from enough.

the same confusion also occurred in wang he's family. wang he's son xiaoxuan, who is in the second grade of primary school, is tired of studying. he always complains that he doesn't want to go to school when he comes home. because in school, he rarely gets to play on the playground. except for gymnastics and physical education classes, the teacher does not allow students to leave the classroom for ten minutes between classes. except for fetching water and going to the toilet, everyone can only sit in their seats.

wang he had heard about the elementary school's rule against going out for activities during recess, but the news he read was that the problem of activities within ten minutes after class had been solved.

but when everything really happened to his child, he felt incredible: the ten minutes between classes that he was familiar with as a child had disappeared for many years, and had not returned even when he was at his son's level.

not only that, his wife also signed up xiaoxuan for weekend mathematical thinking classes and english classes.

wang he himself was born in a county town in hubei. he entered the best junior high school and high school in the area step by step from a young age. after passing the college entrance examination twice, he finally entered the 985 program and became an employee of a large factory after graduation. now that i have to sit all day long at work, my cervical and lumbar spine are not in good condition. unexpectedly, my son, who has just entered elementary school, is also trapped in the house. before he reaches adulthood, he has become a sedentary generation. even if you win the study paper, it is nothing more than the same as him. do children want to live such a life again?

li ting read a book called "xiaohua's miso soup", which tells the story of the mother qianhui who passed away due to illness when her daughter was just 5 years old. but during her illness, she accompanied, loved and taught her daughter how to make miso soup.

"we came to this world before our children, and we will also leave this world before our children. children will one day live alone, so teach them what you want to teach them. it is never too early. ”

what do you most want to teach your children? neither li ting nor wang he had thought it through, but they both knew that it was definitely not a matter of "brushing the questions."

“if you can’t change the general environment, you can only change yourself.”

wang he stopped xiaoxuan's weekend extracurricular tutoring class, and li ting wanted to teach her children skills other than knowledge. they all chose to take their children to farm.

li ting only learned about the "shared vegetable garden" after taking her children to pick strawberries at a suburban farm.

after a little research, li ting learned that there is actually a large amount of cultivated land in first-tier cities like beijing and shanghai. the exact figures are 1.96 million acres in beijing and 2.4 million acres in shanghai.

these farms will offer various farm experience activities. the most common thing in beijing is picking. but what few people know is that these farms often rent out vegetable plots to ordinary consumers, which are so-called "shared vegetable gardens."

li ting learned that there are generally three basic models for renting vegetable land, namely full trusteeship, semi-trusteeship and self-cultivation. full trusteeship means that the farm is fully managed according to the customer's needs, and the customer only needs to enjoy the harvest results; semi-trusteeship means that the farmer is responsible for sowing and auxiliary management of the farm. self-cultivation means that everything except the land is prepared by himself.

li ting chose the second option. the farm provides a full set of farming tools, which saves her a lot of worry, and her children can also experience the whole process of farming. this allows the short-sighted xiaoxiao to see more than just the green in the book.

the shared farm li ting chose is not far from her home, making it easy to visit on weekends or after her children get out of school. because it is close to the reservoir, the surrounding scenery is beautiful, and there is a small forest next to the vegetable field. this is not a complete countryside, there are some office buildings a few kilometers away. but turning a corner, there is a picture of rural life. working with children here really feels like being hidden away from the city.

after enough field activities, my daughter xiaoxiao’s myopia did not develop any further.

what makes li ting even more delighted is that her daughter, who originally felt she couldn't take care of many things on her own and needed help from adults, suddenly seemed to have grown up in the vegetable field.

every time she is brought to the farm, the adults don't have to worry about her. she would find things to do by herself and arrange the tasks she had to do: feeding the chickens, weeding the fields, catching insects for the vegetables, and helping the adults move farm tools in and out.

li ting also gradually realized that for children, the greatest respect is not learning knowledge or even games, but work.

adults provide children with a working place like a vegetable patch, and they can naturally get involved in it without too much preaching.

"chicken babies are not as good as chickens themselves." when adults work hard to grow vegetables, children also see it. children who participate in adults' labor will feel particularly proud and will work hard together.

since starting to grow vegetables, the daily topics at li ting’s family dinner table have ranged from: have you finished your homework? what did you learn in school today? it becomes what to plant this season, whether it will grow well, and what the harvest will be like...

for the first time, the family had a common goal, and it wasn't about "learning." after a year, li ting felt that her children had a deep connection with this land.

there is joy in labor, and there is also something beyond people’s imagination.

because farm work is actually not as simple as you think. this is because li ting chose a semi-managed farm and did not feel deeply about it.

wang he's beautiful imagination of pastoral leisure was shattered on the first day he took his children to the fields. because for most people who have little farming experience. even for a small piece of land measuring dozens of square meters, the amount of labor is beyond imagination.

what's more, in order to bring his children to experience farming in depth, wang he chose land that he cultivated by himself.

first of all, plowing is a very troublesome thing. you think the soil is loose and soft. in fact, it all requires hard work to manage.

the land wang he rented was originally a wasteland. the soil was severely compacted and needed to be improved, plowed and ridden. wang he got sunburned after working in the sun for a day.

he originally planned to let his son watch him work in the field, and did not expect the child to do such heavy work, but his son xiaoxuan also plowed the field with him, and he did not look tired like his father, but was in high spirits. very high. for the first time, wang he felt that he was no better than his children when it came to farm work. father and son can definitely grow together on this track.

the only thing that is better than the child may be that the father is stronger and can carry sheep dung.

in order to make the soil fertile, wang he did his homework online. pesticides and fertilizers can only make the soil more compact. only manure can add nutrients to the land. chicken's intestinal tract is relatively short, digestion is incomplete, and heavy metals will remain in the manure. sheep's manure is relatively mild and is the best.

wang he went to the dung farm to order a ton of sheep manure. for a dung farm, one ton is too little, not enough for one person to transport it.

wang hehao persuaded him, so the manure yard made an exception and made an exception. unexpectedly, this ton of sheep dung was delivered on a working day, so wang he had to rush to "unload" during the lunch break. seeing the hard work of the delivery master, wang he felt relieved and asked the driver to unload the fertilizer to the roadside. but it later proved that caring for others often means working hard yourself. wang he had to transport more than 30 bags of sheep dung back to his own land alone.

wang he did a simple calculation and found that not counting the land rent, he had already invested less than 10,000 yuan in the land. from purchasing small tools such as shovels, rakes, and hoes, to water pipes for irrigation and installing fences in greenhouses, "before a single vegetable is returned, tens of thousands of dollars have already been put in."

the wife smiled and said that it was no cheaper than enrolling children in extracurricular classes, and growing vegetables was no less tiring than tutoring children in homework.

but wang he doesn't think so.

just this fall, wang he’s vegetable garden grew tomatoes—and only tomatoes. due to lack of planting experience, all other crops died, and only tomatoes were left.

but the fresh experience of exchanging physical strength for fruits made both wang he and xiao xuan excited.

xiaoxuan said that if anyone gets 60 points in the school exam, the teacher will definitely be dissatisfied and he will be very frustrated, but why can he be very happy if he only gets 10 points in farming?

wang he analyzed that perhaps everyone in the school only sees shortcomings and areas that require efforts. the land is tolerant. as long as you work hard, the land will always give you rewards. the land cannot see people's shortcomings and will always give you affirmation.

because wang he himself feels the same way. there are successes and failures in farming, but at least the land will not cheat you.

wang he was wondering why children today are so depressed. it may be because they are not connected to the material world.

in the city, children see their parents working on the computer, and they don’t know what the adults are doing. but on the farm, they see how the adults work, planting the land, mixing fertilizer, weeding, and catching insects. and the children you can also participate in it. these are far beyond school education.