"Dad, why are the seeds of radishes and vegetables all small particles?"
"Dad, why do you plant trees instead of sowing seeds?"
"Dad, why are tomatoes more expensive than potatoes in the supermarket?"
All these "Daddy, Daddy … …” They are all "100,000 Why’s" thrown by the children to their father in the "Hou Dad Studio" activity of the Second Nursery School in Xi ‘an. What is "Hou Dad Studio"? Why did you set up "Hou Dad Studio"?
Influenced by traditional ideas, most families in our country bear the main pressure of life, and the responsibility of taking care of children falls more on the shoulders of mothers. Many fathers have missed the good memories of their children’s growth. In addition, in the early education stage, most of the children’s main educators are women, and the role of father in children’s growth is gradually weakened, which not only restricts the establishment of good family relations, but also is not conducive to children’s physical and mental health.
In order to promote the return of the role of father and make children grow up healthily in a harmonious family atmosphere, we actively tap the resources of teachers, gather a group of young teachers with high literacy, research ability and innovation as the center, and set up "Hou Dad Studio". Through well-designed activities, the scientific parenting experience will be shared with the majority of dads in various forms, so as to help dads establish a correct educational concept and "use a good dad to drive a good dad" to achieve the goal of "making children happy and making dads accompany them to become popular".
After six years’ practice, "Hou Dad Studio" has formed an all-round and multi-angle activity system, including large-scale lectures, educational salons, parent-child games and small group parent-child practice activities.
Sharing ideas and improving dad’s literacy
Spreading scientific educational ideas, helping dad to establish a correct view of children and improving dad’s educational strategies are the original intention of "Hou Dad Studio". To this end, "Hou Dad Studio" organized a series of theme sharing activities, such as "Do you know children" and "The role of fathers in children’s education". By showing real cases, these sharing activities help fathers fully understand the laws of children’s physical and mental development, let them perceive the different roles of mother and father in children’s growth, and understand the differences in children’s language, personality, emotions and social communication behaviors under different parenting styles.
Regular educational salon activities such as "Daddy Meeting" and "Daddy Online" invite dads of different ages to get together and discuss children’s education in the form of online and offline, and dads share their parenting experiences and ask questions. For example, "What if the child doesn’t kiss me?" "How to coordinate with the educational concept of the child’s mother?" "What to do with the child?" "How to guide the child if he is too timid?" In communication, we have narrowed the distance and solved the problem.
Both lectures and educational salons have built a platform for fathers to improve their educational literacy. Through study and communication, dads re-examine their educational behavior, find out their problems in the process of educating their children through comparison, learn good experience, and improve inappropriate concepts and practices, so as to better handle the parent-child relationship.
Parent-child cooperation to improve the quality of companionship
After the guidance and guidance from the concept level, many dads have realized that they should participate in home co-education activities and accompany their children to grow up happily. However, what kind of activities should a father do with his children and how to interact with them in the activities have become new problems. Therefore, the "Hou Dad Studio" has planned rich activities from the practical level, and through the example demonstration of dad and the intimate interaction between father and son, in an infiltration atmosphere, it has helped dads master the methods subtly.
Celebrate June 1 with Hou Dad. Every year on Children’s Day, in order to improve the present situation that mothers always participate in parent-child activities, "Hou Dad Studio" calls fathers to plan an interesting game activity for their children, turning the kindergarten into their favorite playground. During the activity, dads will clumsily learn their children’s morning exercises, rub their children’s little faces with rough beards in the "touch" game, hug each other tightly with their children in a small newspaper, and hold up long walking cloths with other dads to let the children climb over one by one … … "Dad, you are great today!" "Dad, I love you the most!" Every time the "Follow Hou Dad for June 1" activity ends, dads can always receive various confessions from their children. Through activities, children feel the love of their fathers, and fathers also feel the attachment of their children to themselves.
Go shopping with Hou Dad. In order to cultivate children’s awareness of cooperation, financial management and healthy eating habits, the activity of "following Hou Dad to the supermarket" requires dad to take his children to the supermarket at a specified time and use a specified amount to purchase the ingredients needed for three meals a day. During the activity, the father and children discussed the recipes for the day, decided the ingredients to buy, learned "how to choose good vegetables", discussed the differences between chicken, pork, beef and fish, and calculated that "49.5 yuan should give the cashier several 10 yuan".
After the purchase, the child introduced the purchase results to the judge’s mother with the help of his father. After the activity, each group of families will show the process of dad taking his children to prepare meals with ingredients. "Today I feel the pride of being a father" and "I will buy food from my father every day" … … This is the most direct evaluation of the activity by father and children, and it also represents their high recognition of the activity.
Sow love with Hou Dad. In order to let children experience the joy of labor and the hard-won food, every March and September, "Hou Dad Studio" will organize fathers and children to carry out planting activities of "planting love with Hou Dad".
During the activity, dad took the children to learn about different seeds, experienced the planting process such as digging, sowing, weeding and watering, and discovered the secret of seed germination and growth through observation and recording.
Planting activities have been completed for six seasons, and have been deeply loved by fathers and children. In the process of guarding the growth of the same life, father and children have a common goal and experience the joy of harvest.
In addition to the above activities, the activities organized by "Hou Dad Studio" such as "following Hou Dad to pursue dreams" and "following Hou Dad to do housework" have produced good results and have been warmly welcomed by fathers and children.
Show your expertise and set an example for your father.
In order to improve the enthusiasm of fathers to participate in home education, set an example of "good father" among children and parents, and drive more fathers into kindergartens, "Hou Dad Studio" also launched "Dad enters the classroom" and "Happy Bobo Hall" activities.
"Hou Dad Studio" seized the resource of dad group and held the activity of "Dad enters the classroom". For example, "dentist’s father enters the classroom" — — Dentist father explains how to protect teeth for children; "Police dad enters the classroom" — — Police dad tells children how to protect themselves; "PLA dad enters the classroom" — — People’s Liberation Army fathers lead their children to run exercises and play military boxing … …
The activity of "Dad enters the classroom" not only enriches the children’s cognition of different occupations, but also establishes the glorious and tall image of dad.
In addition, "Hou Dad Studio" has also created a radio station for fathers and children — — "Happy Bobo Hall", the kindergarten invites father and son (female) to be the anchor, telling historical stories, spreading parenting knowledge and forecasting the future weather.
In order to present it perfectly on the broadcast day, dad took the children to choose interesting stories, familiarize themselves with the story content, sort out the broadcast draft, divide each other’s content to broadcast, practice broadcasting and encourage the children to express boldly.
At every link, dad patiently communicated with his children and answered their questions. "Happy Bobo Hall" really became a "catalyst" to promote dad and children to become close friends.
Simultaneously with the activities, there is also a scientific research project of "Hou Dad Studio". In order to find and solve the problems, the members of "Hou Dad Studio" carried out research on fatherhood education, fathers’ participation in home education, and the development of male teachers.
For example, the topic "Investigation and Research on the Present Situation of Father’s Participation in Home Co-education" makes a detailed analysis of the factors that restrict father’s participation in home co-education and the main problems in father’s participation in home co-education, and sums up the effective strategies of home co-education combined with the practice mode of "Hou Da Studio".
"Hou Dad Studio" has formed an operation mode of both subject research and characteristic activities. This mode of promoting development with scientific research and taking research with activities, on the one hand, makes activities more scientific, on the other hand, it also exercises the scientific research ability of team members.
Nowadays, the activity of "Hou Da Studio" has spread to more than a thousand families. Through the follow-up investigation, it is found that fathers who have participated in the activity of "Hou Da Studio" spend more time with their children, have more abundant ways of companionship, and have higher enthusiasm for participating in parent-child activities. The attendance rate of fathers in parent-teacher conferences is increasing year by year, and the proportion of fathers in family committees is almost the same as that of mothers in the past two years … … "Hou Dad Studio" has truly become a growing "Good Dad Alliance". (Jin Ruimin, Wang Xiaoju, Liu Dongyu and Hu Min)