Specific contents of Finnish child welfare

Finnish children enter school at the age of seven. Before this, although parents can send their children to nursery centers or preschool classes, it is undeniable that families have to bear the main responsibility for education. For example, cultivate children's reading ability and interest in learning. Libraries and museums in Finland have activities designed for preschool children. In the museum that has always been quiet, there are also many parents pushing dolls and taking their children to visit. Children who are still in infancy or toddlers can already explore the mysteries of the world.

In addition, the report of the Finnish Ministry of Education points out that Finnish parents have the habit of reading books and newspapers at home since childhood, so that children can plant seeds that they like to read at home. 40% students point out that reading is their favorite leisure activity. This has greatly promoted the reading ability of Finns. According to the OECD report, nearly 20% of Finnish students' reading ability is at the best level 5, and less than 2% of them are below the worst level 1.

In addition, the class time in Finland is very short every day, even for middle school students, classes are over after 2 pm. During the winter and summer vacations, there are no so-called "homework" and no "remedial classes". Therefore, parents must be responsible for arranging activities and places for their children.

Finnish parents' educational philosophy is also worth learning-although they teach their children to read from an early age, they do not regard their studies as the only thing. In winter and summer vacations, children are not sent to cram English and math, but are arranged to learn life skills, travel outdoors or swim, ski, sports summer camps and other activities.

Finnish parents not only pay attention to their children's grades in their communication with schools. Zheng Aiping, a China native whose children were educated in Finland, mentioned in an article in the media that there was a transfer student in her son's class who was slow to learn because of the language barrier, which led to the slow progress of the whole class. As a result, at the parent-teacher meeting, all parents had no objection. No one asked to transfer students to different classes, no one asked to transfer children, and no one asked to change teachers. Through this example, these parents let their children know that grades are not the most important thing, and also encouraged all children not to give up on themselves in times of adversity, but to give others a chance when they encounter difficulties.

In addition, it is worth noting that these excellent family education achievements do not only appear in families with rich or leisure parents. The cross-sectional analysis of the OECD report shows that the influence of Finnish students' achievement gap and their parents' socio-economic status on their achievements is the lowest among all countries. Because the government has invested a lot of resources to help parents do their own educational work at home.

The government employs parents as nannies.

The Finnish government is willing to spend money on education. When the economy declined, the government increased the funds for education, research and development, hoping to invest in the future and save the economy. Therefore, after a child is born, he can receive benefits such as the children's welfare fund and the living allowance for minors. Among them, some of them are limited to cultural and educational purposes. The government transfers the allowance to everyone's specific account, and the financial card of this account can only be consumed in educational and cultural units such as bookstores and art galleries signed with the government.

Finland also has a system to encourage parents to take care of their children. For example, they give parents allowances to take care of their children, as if their parents were government-hired nannies. Mothers' paid maternity leave lasts for four months, and both parents can apply for parental leave for half a year and get 60% salary at the same time. Before the child is three years old, unpaid parental leave can last for up to three years, and the government will give a childcare allowance.

In addition to tangible financial subsidies, the government also provides various services. For example, if parents want to go to work, there will be day care services, and the government will provide subsidies, so that everyone can fight for the economy without worries. After class, the school also has a special place for children to do homework or play, arrange teachers to help take care of them, and parents don't have to bother to spend money to arrange classes for their parents.

Finnish parents also have many social resources to help them teach their children. In many research reports on Finnish education, libraries are mentioned. Finland has more than 1000 libraries, with an average of one library for every 250 people, the highest in the world. Parents can take their children to the library when they are very young, take part in the story time of infants and children, borrow books and read books, and let their children develop the habit of reading.

The library provides thoughtful service.

The service of the Finnish library is also very thoughtful. For example, if remote areas are far away from libraries, there are mobile libraries that tour rural schools every week to deliver books. If there are books that cannot be borrowed or found, the library will also transfer them from other branches to satisfy everyone's thirst for knowledge.

The museums in Finland are also worth mentioning. There are more than 300 museums with rich contents in Finland,/kloc-people under the age of 0/8 are admitted free of charge. In addition, the museum often organizes various activities, speeches or courses for children and teenagers, so that parents are willing to take their children to participate.

As for parents' worries, Finland also has social resources to deal with whether to learn English from primary school. Finnish TV stations broadcast a large number of foreign language teaching programs, and children at home also have the opportunity to contact many foreign languages and learn English.

None of these achievements is a coincidence. From the foundation of Finland's founding-country, family and faith, we can understand the importance that Finns attach to family.

In 1999, the government also emphasized in its policy plan on children's education and care that the overall goal is to make Finland a society combining knowledge with technology, professionalism and innovation. In order to become a leader in the digital age, all departments should cooperate to support and assist responsible parents and give their children a perfect growth environment.

From this perspective, family education in Finland is indeed the cornerstone of building the world's first competitiveness.