The daughter who graduated from a prestigious school wants to be a nanny, and the mother's practice can be called textbook-style guidance, which is worth learning.

After watching Super Parent Class in Silicon Valley, I thought of a sentence: The road is simple.

A mother who has trained three excellent daughters, a famous American public high school teacher, summed up her parenting methods so simply and flatly!

This excellent mother is Esther Wojcicki, who is known as the godmother of Silicon Valley. She raised three daughters. The eldest daughter, susan wojcicki, is known as "the mother of Google", the second daughter is a doctor in anthropology and AIDS research, and the third daughter founded a genetic testing company, which was once rated as "the global leader in science and technology" 10.

As a high school teacher, she is especially popular with students. There are many excellent students, including basketball stars, famous actors, doctors and child psychologists. Even Jobs deliberately asked his daughter to transfer to another school, hoping to become her student.

Such an excellent educator, she only summed up five parenting principles, which are called unique parenting. These five principles are: trust, respect, independence, cooperation and goodwill.

Does it sound simple? We often see these truths from books and the media, and we have also heard them from many parenting experts.

However, after learning about Esther Wojcicki's parenting rules, I found that these parenting rules sound simple, but it is not easy to really do it, and parents need great determination.

Trust and respect for children are the two cornerstones of TRICK parenting method. This method is not only advocated by Esther Wojcicki, but also advocated by almost all educators. I believe most parents have heard of it, but it is hard to say how much it is really achieved.

My daughter, like myself, is also a mother who can be bosom friends, but after reading this book, I find that I still can't always respect and trust my children.

This is because children and parents often have different views on things. It is difficult for parents to maintain rational trust and respect when their children's behavior does not meet their parents' expectations.

For example, you worked hard to send your daughter to a famous university to graduate, majoring in biology, but after graduation, she said to you, "My job is to be a nanny." Do you agree at this time? Will you be angry, sad and sad? Will you try your best to stop her?

I thought for a moment, if I were in this situation, I don't think I could accept it calmly. Although I won't be angry enough to argue with my daughter and order her not to go, I will try to find various reasons to convince her, or I may find relatives and friends to put pressure on her and try to get her back on track.

But Esther Wojcicki didn't do that.

This is actually her personal experience. After graduating from Yale University with honors, her little daughter declared that she wanted to be a teacher.

Although Esther Wojcicki disagreed, she respected her little daughter's choice and didn't try to stop her. She only collects bio-related recruitment information when her little daughter is a nanny and shows it to her little daughter at home.

After such a period of time, my little daughter suddenly told her in the recruitment information provided by her mother that she wanted to apply for a job. After the younger daughter successfully applied for the job, she became better and better in her own professional field, and finally founded a genetic testing company and became a billionaire.

It can be seen from this incident that Esther Wojcicki really engraved the trust and respect for children in her bones!

She respects children's choices. Even if she doesn't agree, she just silently selects relevant information for guidance, never uses the authority of parents to put pressure on children, or tells her difficulties to pua children, so that children have to do what parents expect.

In contrast, many of our parents often say that they respect and trust their children, and they usually negotiate with them on some small matters. However, when it comes to the preset bottom line in your mind, you rarely consider your own right or wrong and your child's feelings. You just ask your children.

The root cause is that parents don't trust their children enough and don't believe that their children's choices are correct, so they think they are arranging for their children.

A colleague of my friend once happily sent top student's son to study abroad, but when he returned from school, he desperately called him back to his hometown in a small fourth-tier city to take an examination of civil servants who had nothing to do with his major.

The son is unwilling, and the parents put forward various practical reasons. Finally, the son was forced to go home. In less than two years, the high mood of returning from school has disappeared from everyone, and the whole person is depressed, which makes us onlookers sigh.

The child's life is his own, and the choice should be decided by him. Parents can guide but not interfere. True trust and respect is to guide children, not PUA!

Esther Wojcicki believes that truly independent children will have more perseverance. Independence is the survival rule that every child should learn most.

In order to let the eagle learn to fly, the eagle picks it up and throws it away; Shortly after the baby wolf was born, the male wolf drove him out of the family colony.

Animals know how to let go. As a human with high IQ, how can children be imprisoned because of their parents' private love, so that children lose the ability to live independently?

Let children learn to be independent. The most important thing for parents is to know how to shut up and not be too diligent. They should give their children independent space and leave them far behind.

We can start with small things, give children the right to make decisions independently, teach them to decide their own affairs, find their own solutions to problems and know how to be responsible for themselves.

While cultivating children's independence, children should learn to cooperate with others.

In recent years, education has been seriously involved, and many children have felt the fierce competition since childhood. But if a child only knows how to compete with peers and doesn't know how to cooperate with others, then he must not go far!

You know, there are not only two options to win or lose, but also a third better possibility: win-win cooperation.

The faster the social development, the finer the division of labor will be. A lot of work cannot be done by one person. People who are good at cooperation have higher emotional intelligence and are more likely to succeed.

When a person knows how to think independently and is good at cooperating with others, he can not only maintain his independence, but also know how to accept other people's opinions. Why worry about not succeeding?

Among the five parenting principles summarized by Esther Wojcicki, trust and respect are parents' parenting methods, independence and cooperation are children's survival ability, and goodwill is the requirement for children's character.

There is a tradition in Esther Wojcicki's family: every Christmas, the whole family will go to the mall to buy a "most pitiful" tree.

What is a tree of sadness? It is the ugliest tree in the mall, and it is most likely not to be sold. Because nobody wanted it, Esther Wojcicki and her daughter bought it home, dressed it up and spent Christmas with it.

I was moved by this detail when I was reading a book, because I saw their empathy for others.

A person with empathy must be a kind person who can understand and care about others. Such a child has a soft heart, knows how to be grateful and knows how to cherish.

Esther Wojcicki believes that the real core of education is to bring children into this world, hoping that they can make this world a better place.

Therefore, we should teach children to be grateful and be kind to the world. Although sometimes the world may not be as beautiful as we think, we can still make the world a better place with our kindness and dedication!

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