Chapter5-1 閱讀筆記?What Makes a Perfect Parent?如何成為完美父母?
相比西方國家渤涌,現(xiàn)在的年輕父母對(duì)家庭教育的重視程度達(dá)到前所未有的高度。
什么房子最有價(jià)值至耻?最有升值潛力渔期?答案就是學(xué)區(qū)房。北京學(xué)區(qū)房單價(jià)一路攀升唾琼,至今年兄春,西城學(xué)區(qū)房的單價(jià)已經(jīng)突破20萬,如果想買50平的一間學(xué)區(qū)房锡溯,就得1000萬神郊,家長們?yōu)榱撕⒆右彩瞧戳恕5菍W(xué)區(qū)房對(duì)孩子真的那么重要嗎趾唱?
這一章的核心內(nèi)容是家庭教育
隨著對(duì)家庭教育的持續(xù)重視涌乳,近幾十年涌現(xiàn)出形形色色的家庭教育專家(parenting expert),而專家們的觀點(diǎn)往往大相徑庭甜癞,甚至針對(duì)同一問題有截然不同的看法夕晓。
用幾個(gè)問題梳理思路:關(guān)鍵詞 fear, risk
問題1. 為什么層出不窮,形形色色的教育專家的觀點(diǎn)可以威懾父母?jìng)冇圃郏繛槭裁磧和踩a(chǎn)品大有市場(chǎng)蒸辆?讓父母趨之若鶩
我發(fā)現(xiàn)養(yǎng)娃的朋友說起育兒經(jīng)都是一套套的,從飲食析既,睡眠躬贡,運(yùn)動(dòng),學(xué)習(xí)眼坏,智力開發(fā)幾乎樣樣都懂拂玻。從這方面來說,不得不說家庭教育專家功不可沒宰译。相反我們這一代人成長的就比較糙檐蚜,父母被沒有給太多多的早教,都是從小跟小伙伴摸爬滾打過來的沿侈,成長過成中最不缺的可能就是書闯第。
對(duì)于不養(yǎng)娃的人的好處是可以站在圈子外面看看熱鬧,那些被專家不停左右的父母有時(shí)候也很沮喪缀拭。
比如今天專家說小孩子應(yīng)該平躺著睡覺咳短,改日又說小孩子應(yīng)該趴著睡;今天專家說孩子不打不成才蛛淋,明天又說暴力下面會(huì)出罪犯咙好;或者今天告訴應(yīng)該讓孩子跟父母有平等的地位,不久說孩子應(yīng)該有孩子樣铣鹏,不能沒大沒蟹笊ā哀蘑;總之诚卸,專家的言論經(jīng)常是一陣風(fēng)這樣葵第,一陣風(fēng)那樣,而父母?jìng)兯坪醪]有對(duì)專家的言論有所警惕合溺,總是被專家們牽著鼻子走卒密。這是為什么?
專家的動(dòng)機(jī)分析:
家庭教育專家跟其它領(lǐng)域的專家沒什么不同棠赛,對(duì)于自己提出的議論哮奇,他們當(dāng)然希望有大批人追隨,視他們的觀點(diǎn)為“conventional wisdom"傳統(tǒng)智慧睛约。專家們讓大眾信服鼎俘,最好的方法是訴諸感情,因?yàn)楦星槭抢硇詳橙吮缋裕谒械母星楫?dāng)中贸伐,最強(qiáng)大有力的感情便是“fear"恐懼.
"His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument. And as emotions go, one of them- fear-is more potent than the rest."
沒有人比父母?jìng)兏菀妆粚<业摹拔Q月柭牎辨?zhèn)懾住了≌“恐懼”是育兒過程中主要組成部分捉邢。
“No one is more susceptible to an expert’s fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting.”
小時(shí)候,父母不讓我們單獨(dú)去游泳商膊,是害怕沒有大人保護(hù)我們會(huì)被淹死伏伐;不讓我們看言情小說,怕我們荒廢學(xué)業(yè)晕拆;不讓我們吃街別小吃藐翎,怕影響我們健康;(我從小沒吃過街別的羊肉串之類的東西实幕,后來上大學(xué)在街邊吃阱高,覺得這東西實(shí)在太好吃了),等等等等茬缩。他們總是在為不必要擔(dān)心的事情過度擔(dān)心赤惊。所以讓父母從所謂的“傳統(tǒng)智慧”中區(qū)分哪些是謠言哪些是事實(shí)的確是一件非常不容易的事情。
父母?jìng)兙褪沁@樣被專家們輕易操控了凰锡,這就是為什么很多兒童安全產(chǎn)品可以大行其道未舟,比如兒童安全座椅。目測(cè)我周邊的有娃黨們有安全座椅的幾乎高達(dá)95%掂为,為什么裕膀?因?yàn)楹ε伦约旱耐拊谲嚿铣鍪隆?/p>
問題2: 父母?jìng)內(nèi)绾问侨绾伪粚<也倏氐模?/b>
讓我們進(jìn)一步了解專家如何操控父母的。
風(fēng)險(xiǎn)理論:
Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control.?
我們往往更害怕那些我們不能控制的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)勇哗。作者舉的例子非常好昼扛,為什么瘋牛病和家庭廚房的不清潔對(duì)我們的健康都有影響,可為什么我們對(duì)瘋牛病會(huì)產(chǎn)生恐慌,而對(duì)自家廚房可能存在的病源體就淡定多了抄谐。原因是瘋牛病這東西我控制不了渺鹦,但是自家廚房我還是可以清潔的。事實(shí)往往跟我們的判斷是相悖的蛹含,家庭廚房跟瘋牛病的病源危害相對(duì)更大毅厚,因?yàn)榀偱2〉陌l(fā)生概率很小。
用公式簡(jiǎn)化風(fēng)險(xiǎn)理論:風(fēng)險(xiǎn)risk=危險(xiǎn)hazard+憤怒outrage
一件事的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)越高浦箱,人們?cè)娇謶帧?/b>危險(xiǎn)有大有小吸耿,無法更變,但是憤怒值是可以被操控的酷窥,當(dāng)憤怒值很高的時(shí)候咽安,人們通常認(rèn)為風(fēng)險(xiǎn)越高。專家們更是精于此道, 用擴(kuò)大或減少憤怒值來操控人們對(duì)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的感識(shí)蓬推。
兒童安全產(chǎn)品通常都伴隨著恐懼的增長
“These products are often a response to some growing scare in which, as Peter Sandman might put it, the outrage outweighs the hazard. ”
問題3:對(duì)于時(shí)刻擔(dān)心板乙,恐懼的家長們來說,最最擔(dān)心的事情是什么拳氢?
在家長的心中募逞,最恐懼的是什么?自然是孩子的品性和能力的塑造馋评。由此引出兩個(gè)大問題:
a:擇校是否有益放接?
b:父母對(duì)孩子的教育到底有多重要?
關(guān)于擇校的問題留特,作者通過兩項(xiàng)有份量(CPS和ECLS)的研究給出了結(jié)果纠脾,用經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)工具和數(shù)據(jù)作出分析:
CPS擇校項(xiàng)目規(guī)定由抽簽確定擇校生,這個(gè)項(xiàng)目給研究者們提供非常好的實(shí)驗(yàn)場(chǎng)蜕青。high school 階段的擇校
結(jié)果是什么苟蹈?擇校對(duì)學(xué)生幾乎沒什么影響。雖然進(jìn)入好學(xué)校的學(xué)生的畢業(yè)率通常會(huì)更高右核,但事實(shí)上進(jìn)入“更好的”學(xué)校的學(xué)生并不一定比其他學(xué)生取得更好的結(jié)果慧脱。學(xué)習(xí)比較出色的學(xué)生,是否進(jìn)入“更好的“學(xué)校并不會(huì)對(duì)他們的畢業(yè)產(chǎn)生任何影響贺喝。菱鸥。
那些在抽簽未能擇校成功的學(xué)生是否會(huì)受到不好的影響呢?答案是否定的躏鱼。資料表明氮采,這些學(xué)生的成績幾乎仍舊保持在原來的水平上。
ECLS項(xiàng)目:此項(xiàng)目分析了白人和黑人孩子之間的差異 早期階段擇校
從這個(gè)項(xiàng)目的數(shù)據(jù)來看說明擇校在早期教育上有益的染苛,確實(shí)會(huì)明顯地對(duì)學(xué)生的成績產(chǎn)生影響鹊漠,如果把黑人當(dāng)作差生,進(jìn)入好學(xué)校是有利于成績提升。
關(guān)于第二個(gè)問題躯概,明天讀完再總結(jié)登钥。
本章經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)術(shù)語
1. regression analysis 回歸分析
In statistics, regressionanalysisisastatisticalprocessforestimatingtherelationshipsamongvariables.
“Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data. It does so by artificially holding constant every variable except the two he wishes to focus on, and then showing how those two co-vary.”
2. correlation 變量相關(guān)性
“A correlation simply means that a relationship exists between two factors-let’s call them X and Y-but it tells you nothing about the direction of that relationship. It’s possible that X causes Y; it’s also possible that Y causes X; and it may be that X and Y are both being caused by some other factor, Z.”
詞匯
1. by the hour/from the hour to hour:
if a situation is changing by the hour or form hour to hour, it is changing very quickly and very often (變化)快速不斷地,每小時(shí)都有的
Anyone who tries even casually to follow their advice may be stymied, for the conventional wisdom on parenting seems to shiftby the hour.
2.spare the rod, spoil the child
The phrase “spare the rod, spoil the child” is a modern-day proverb that means if a parent refuses to discipline an unruly child, that child will grow accustomed to getting his own way. He will become, in the common vernacular, a spoiled brat. The saying comes from?Proverbs 13:24, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.
在文中也給出了解釋:spare the rod, spoil the child楞陷, spank the child and go to jail.
3. Sandman is an expert who?works both sides of the aisle.
4. crescendo
最大強(qiáng)度;漸強(qiáng);頂點(diǎn);People sometimes describe an increase in the intensity of something, or its most intense point, as acrescendo.
There was acrescendoof parliamentary and press criticism...
來自議會(huì)和新聞界的批評(píng)越來越多茉唉。
5.bedlam
混亂固蛾;喧鬧;嘈雜度陆;Bedlammeans a great deal of noise and disorder. People often say 'It was bedlam' to mean 'There was bedlam'.
The crowd went absolutely mad. It wasbedlam...
人們徹底瘋了艾凯。亂成了一團(tuán)。
6. boon
給生活帶來方便的事物懂傀;You can describe something as a boon when it makes life better or easier for someone.[usu a N to/for n]
It is for this reason that television proves such aboonto so many people...
就是因?yàn)檫@個(gè)原因趾诗,電視才會(huì)給這么多人帶來如此大的便利。
7.opt out
choose not to participate in or carry on with something
決定不參加; 退出:
the treaty gives any country the right toopt out ofa single currency.
條約賦予任何國家退出單一貨幣的權(quán)利蹬蚁。