Parents say their children lack skills
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LAZINESS and poor life skills are the top concerns people have about their school-aged children, according to a survey of more than 6,500 parents across the country.
About 70 percent of those surveyed said their children do not have the basic skills to take care of themselves, such as cleaning their own rooms and folding laundry, said the report released by the Tomorrow Advancing Life Foundation and Jiazhangbang, a mobile phone application that allows parents to share educational information.
Education experts said Chinese parents contribute to the problem by placing too much emphasis on academic performance at an early age — at the expense of cultivating their child’s personality and behavioral traits, according to the report.
Though most parents who participated in the survey focused on fostering the development of basic skills and habits, nearly 50 percent put great emphasis on teaching their children to read when they were as young as 3 years old.
“When children are between 4 and 6 years old, they develop rapidly,” said Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at China’s National Institute of Education Sciences. “But some parents and early educators have overly high expectations of their intellectual development, forcing them to learn too much.”
Chu added: “Such practices actually lead to children developing a passive personality, which undermines development. This problem deserves attention.”
He said: “Children are not just responsible for academic study — they have other areas they need to develop.”
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