Appreciation Education

Wow, it's been 40 days since my last post. I found that once i stop writing i'll be getting lazy to write, and my mind are slowing down, life is getting slower and lower energy.

I have been looking into a Chinese Education concept and method called Appreciation Education recently. Since it's in mandarin, so it's kind of hard for me to share in English and that one of the reason i stop writing for a while. Ok, I better stop giving myself excuse.

What's exactly is Appreciation Education you may asked... I've been wondering how i can answer this question clearly and accurately. In the end, I found out that I'm unable to do that. However, perhaps I can answer it in an attractive way that might have some people to look into it and benefit from it.

So, now i begin... Appreciation Education is a magical yet common, newly launched yet very old type of education. So, what exactly it is? As for first timer, it is a education method that all parents teach their baby on how to speak and walk when they were babies.

When our babies start to learn how to speak and walk, most of us as parent have been very patience, we cheer for our babies even they speak wrongly or the fall down. We motivate them, and we give mental support and encourage our baby keep trying until they succeed. And more importantly, as parent, we strongly belief that our baby will speak and walk even the process might take longer compared to the other babies; or should i say we never compared.

Sadly, once our babies started to grow up, and started to go to school, we started to compare them with other children. When they "fall" or fail, without understanding the reason, we tends to blame them for their laziness and imcompetence instead of motivate and encourage them to step up and try again. We forgot the cheers for them and give them support mentally. Or maybe we think that all the material or money support we have given them is enough. Slowly, our children started to feel lonely and feel that we no longer love them. And, when they are left behind and keep getting blamed and scolded, they slowly give up. Most importantly, most parent stop to believe our children can never "get up" again at this stage.

Appreciation Education emphasize that "No matter all the people in the world look down on our children, as parent we should always appreciate them, love them, praise them because we should be proud of the spiritual life we have created."

In Appreciation Education, there is no children that failed, there is only education that have failed them. And they are the unlucky one who have failed by their parents and the education system.

In the journey of growing up, as parent, we should always cheers for our children on their success and give them encourgement and mental support when they fall down. Even when they fall 1000 times, we have to encourage them to get up for the 1001 times.

In this way, our children's heart will be in relax and harmony state, they become very happy in the process of learning just like the way they learn how to speak and walk. When this is achieve, our children can never fail cause we are there for them.