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儿童书推荐

发信人: Swell (帘卷西风), 信区: Parenting标 题: 儿童书推荐
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Dec 20 17:50:49 2007)
幸福的种子
小子跟我最喜欢的一套读物是南京师范大学出版社出版的《幸福的种子〉，全套共三十册。先不要害怕，只是三十本薄薄的小册子，每个分次都是独立成书，一个短短的小故事绘本，一般大约两分钟就可以讲完。这些故事绘本有的是日本作家的作品，由美国作家的作品，也有中国本土儿童作家的作品。用字还有句子都比较简单，浅显，生动。这套书很适合两岁到五岁左右的孩子看，或者给大一点孩子做识字课本也是不错的。每本书后面都有点评，还有配合这书里面的故事的家庭小游戏歌谣等等。里面也有一些不是故事类型的书，比如《收集东，收集西〉，讲孩子的对于身边杂物还有很多有趣的物品的观察收集，感受物品的不同性状颜色，用途和质地。还有《拍花萝〉就是很多短篇童谣的集锦。以前当当网有卖的，我去年就在那里买，现在不知道为何不卖了。网上还有其他的网站在卖，大家自己找找吧。我们家小子非常喜欢这套书，里面的胡萝卜火箭，三只小猪去上幼儿园，兔子先生去散步，小豆豆的假期，爱吃水果的牛，蜘蛛先生要搬家等等都是他熟悉喜爱的。小熊布迪系列 亲子双向阅读丛书中国少年儿童出版社出版，德国的哥里塔.卡斯特拉还有苏珊娜。麦斯的作品，也是儿童绘本。这套书的绘画确实很棒，里面的小动物们都毛茸茸的憨态可掬，故事也很生动。书上写的是适合两岁到六岁的孩子阅读。我这个比较挑剔的人觉得有点儿遗憾的是，那些翻译过来的词句给孩子讲述的时候，稍微有一点拗口，不是很流畅。句子偏长，故事的篇幅也稍微长了一点，我这种讲故事要手舞足蹈的人，至少要十分钟讲完。快的话，也要六七分钟。所以对于小一点的孩子，不知道能否有耐性听完。因为，其实故事不在于长，在于生动简洁。可能大一点点地的孩子，才会有耐心地慢慢体会故事里面的每一个有趣的细节。我们家小子属于那种不停地提问题的，不停地要重复前面的某些细枝末节并且穷追猛打的听众，所以，给他讲这种故事书，属于苦差事。这套书，当当网有卖。睡前的泰迪熊这套书很小，也只有四本，故事简单，都是小孩子睡觉前的题材。但是阿，我们家孩子喜欢得不得了，看了又看，读了又读。虽然明知道就是说教，让小孩子好好睡觉不要捣乱，但是咋就那么有趣，那么好看呢。每个故事，一分钟就讲完了，太适合我这种懒虫妈妈啦，因为睡觉前最害怕小孩子拖拖拉拉了，一分钟讲完，然后要求人家跟书上的泰迪熊一样，好好睡觉，还有比这个更好的事情吗？而且平时你不去讲，孩子也可以自己拿着小书来看，自言自语地重复故事，所以，故事简单，真是好啊真是好。强烈推荐，吐血推荐。当当网有卖。另外，泰迪熊还有快乐的泰迪熊系列和顽皮的泰迪熊系列，故事就比睡前的系列长的多了，翻译的句子也比那个啰嗦些，不过不妨碍我们小字的疯狂喜爱。我妈妈——启发系列绘本 我爸爸——启发系列绘本 这两本书的作者是同一个人，合称为爸爸妈妈系列。也是从小孩子的角度来描绘爸爸妈妈，很适合跟孩子一起阅读。我个人觉得爸爸那本比妈妈那本有趣。：）当当网有卖。--

Tutou's first birthday

updates

I am really bad at keeping this up, on the other hand, XiaoXiong is growing too fast to keep up with anyway ;-)
ok, try my best here
he is an expert of pulling up and sitting down, it didn't take him long to figure out "bending the knees while sitting down"
learnt to clap hands about 2 weeks ago, he was so happy, big grin on his face when he does that
learnt to find ear(s) most time right ear only
suck bottom lip to make a kissing sound
working on "blowing a kiss" and "cat" - put two hands up on head

he is crawling on four, can push and follow the highchair or kitchen cart for a little bit, climbs stairs half way (to 3/4 if he sees the cat upstairs). what else ?? let's see .... he sort of knows that coming down stairs or bed, he needs to go feet first, but he hasn't got the idea of turning around.

he stopped waving bye bye after he learnt clapping hands, " gou xiong bai bang zi"??
he has very good appetite these days, eats like a pig... everything and he enjoys self-feeding very much.

this is kinda big deal to me rather to ethan, I have fianally stopped pumping this week, so that now I only nurse him in the morning and before bed. it was pretty painful for the first 2 days, I actually had to pump when I got home the first day. then I got through the 2nd and third hard but no pain, by the fourth day I didn't feel nothing any more. It is so much easier now, more freedom ... at same time a little sad ... I don't know how am I gonna wean the one before bed, I mean it means more to me than to Ethan now ... he dozes off with a bottle just fine, but I will miss the cuddling and the warmth, the way he puts his feet between my thigh... remind me of when I have to stop the co-sleeping ...made me sad ...

loving every child

Excerpt: 'Loving Every Child'
by Janusz Korczak and Edited by Sandra Joseph


A new book, edited by Sandra Joseph, compiles the writings of Janusz Korczak, a famous Polish writer and pediatrician and a hero of the Holocaust.


No Book Is a Substitute
I want everyone to understand that no book and no doctor is a substitute for one's own sensitive contemplation and careful observations. Books with their ready-made formulas have dulled our vision and slackened the mind. Living by other people's experiences, research, and opinions, we have lost our self-confidence and we fail to observe things for ourselves.
Parents find lessons not from books, but from inside themselves. Then every book they read can be considered to be of small additional value; and this one, too, will have fulfilled its given task if it has managed to contribute to bringing this idea home.
Know yourself before you attempt to get to know children. Become aware of what you yourself are capable of before you attempt to outline the rights and responsibilities of children. First and foremost you must realize that you, too, are a child, whom you must first get to know, bring up, and educate.

A Child Is Born
As a mother, you say: "My child." When if not during your pregnancy do you have more right to say this? The beating of the tiny heart, no bigger than a peach stone, echoes your own pulse. Your breath provides the child with oxygen. The blood courses through you both and no drop of blood quite knows yet whether it will remain the mother's or become the child's. Every bite of bread becomes material for building the child's legs on which she will run about, for the skin which will cover her, for the eyes with which she will see, for the brain in which thoughts will burst, for the arms which she will stretch out and the smile with which she will call you Mommy.
As a parent, you say: "My child." No, the child belongs jointly to the mother, the father, the grandparents, and the great-grandparents. Somebody's distant "I" which remained dormant in several ancestors, a voice emerging from a decayed, long-forgotten tomb, suddenly speaks again in this child.
A child is a piece of parchment which has been thoroughly covered with minute hieroglyphics, only a very small part of which will you ever be able to decipher.
As a parent, you say: "She ought to…I want her to…" And you look for a pattern for your child to follow and you search for a life which you wish for her to have. You ignore the fact that all around you there is nothing but mediocrity and banality. People wander around, bustle, they fuss over small problems, fleeting aspirations, uninspired goals, unfulfilled hopes, perpetual longing.
Where is happiness? What exactly is it? Do you know the way to it? Are there those who might know? Will you be equal to the task? How can one anticipate the future and offer protection?
The child is like a butterfly hovering above a raging torrent of life. How to imbue her with toughness without encumbering her lightness in flight; how to temper her without wetting her wings? Should one offer one's own example, help, advice, and words? But what if she rejects them all?
Just remember: A child hungry for advice and direction will absorb it, digest it, and assimilate it. Overfed with moral rules the child will suffer from nausea.
As a parent, you say: "Who is the child to become?" A warrior or just a worker, a leader or one of the followers? Or will she simply want to be happy?
As a parent, you say: "She is supposed to be healthy, so why does she keep crying? Why is she so thin, why does she not suckle properly, why does she not sleep, why does she sleep so much, why does she have such a big head, why does she clench her fists, why is her skin so red, what about the spots on her nose, why does she squint, hiccup, sneeze, choke, sound hoarse? Is this normal?"
You look at this small, helpless thing, which does not resemble any of the other equally small and toothless creatures in the street or in the park. Can it be that in three, four months she, too, will become like them?
Just remember: When is the proper time for a child to start walking? When she does. When should her teeth start cutting? When they do. How many hours should a baby sleep? As long as she needs to.
As a parent, you say: "But is the child clever?" If a parent anxiously asks this question right from the start, it will not take long before the parent will be placing demands on the child. Eat up your food, even if you are not hungry and feel nauseated; go to bed, even though you are not tired and will have to wait an hour to fall asleep. Because you have to, and because I want you to be healthy.
Just remember: Mentalities vary, and children can be steady or capricious, compliant or contrary, creative or imitative, witty or earnest, concrete or abstract; the memory can be exceptional or average; some are congenital despots while others have a wide range of interests.
How often do parents feel disappointment when children fail to live up to expectations, and how often to parents feel disappointment at every step of their development? Parents can be their harsh judges, rather than their counselors and consolers.
It is nothing but a mistake, utter foolishness, to imagine that everything which is not outstanding is therefore pointless and worthless. We are all suffering from the immortality syndrome. Anyone who has not managed to have a monument to himself erected in the marketplace would like a side street named after him at the very least, as a perpetual record.

pull up to stand

XiaoX has mastered this new skill last weekend and has been practising hard these days, almost non-stop ;-) I can definitely see how happy he is. "talking follows walking" but I haven't heard any new words. he has his focus on his motor skills now I guess. his selffeeding has progressed so much. he fed himself small piece of fish at dinner today.