The child insists on self-study for one hour under supervision. I saw that it was the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve. In the afternoon, our family of three was helping out at my mother's house, and my son kept saying, "Buy me a gun, buy me a gun." "And I kept telling him that the price of the five-gun gun would be greatly reduced, and one dollar could be used as two dollars, but my son didn't listen at all. Man, once you have a desire, it is difficult to get tired.

"Wang Jianhua, I beg you, you can quickly take your son to buy guns," said his wife, "You think it's funny, I've been made big." ”

"I'm a little dizzy, too. Mother said.

"Joy, grandpa gave you money, don't listen to your dad. Father said.

The son was holding the 100 yuan given by his grandfather, and when he saw that I didn't move, he smelled the change in my heart, "Grandpa, my dad will give me money to buy guns, and we'll leave in a while." "It took a lot of effort for my son to return the money to his grandfather, which made my father very disagreeable with me. It seems that the idea of exercising his son's self-control is no longer going on at home, "Let's go, buy a gun." I said.

The son jumped up on the ground all of a sudden, and happiness squeezed into his heart. "Hurry up, it's not easy for the cannon seller to go home. My son took my hand and said.

People like to chase after what they love, and it is a holy thing given by God. I just have some memories of buying guns for the Chinese New Year, "Dad, why are you so worn with clothes." The son urged.

"Dad remembered buying guns for the New Year when he was a child. ”

"How did you buy guns then?"

"In the past, my family was poor, and I bought a cannon for one or two yuan at most during the Chinese New Year. ”

"Grandma, is that so?" the son asked.

"Yes. But your dad didn't buy dozens of dollars of guns that year. "Mom shook out my old bottom.

"Dad, the family only gives one or two yuan, how can you buy a cannon for dozens of yuan?" asked the child.

"In the past, we had too few cannons for the New Year, and they would be looked down upon. Your second father and I usually go to the factory to pick up Fei Tie or other rags and sell them a month before the Chinese New Year. ”

I didn't exaggerate, I didn't add to it, and I told future generations the truth about my past life. Such innocent emotions have been forgotten by many cultured people, or they think that it is a page of their own disgrace, and they are deliberately erased by memory. In fact, many children are self-conceived people who educate us, and their education is a mess!

Out of the house, we headed straight for the club cannon market. When I entered the market, I sat down on the top table, "Dad, what are you doing sitting here?" my son asked unsatisfactory.

"Joy, why do you study math when you go to school?"

"In order to get good grades. ”

"Wrong. ”

"No way. Our math class teachers often say that. ”

"Learning mathematics is to let you calculate accounts when you buy things, don't let people cheat, we buy 100 yuan cannon, you buy fifty, I buy fifty, you go down first to inquire about the price and use arithmetic to calculate it. ”

I divided his fifty dollars into five equal portions and let my son run around the cannon market repeatedly. When he excitedly counted the fruits of his labor, he said, "Buying a cannon is really the same as arithmetic." ”

"That's right. Mathematics is not studied for exams, but for solving difficulties in life. Can you use money to buy things and not know how to settle accounts, and can you do it without learning math well?"

"No, I can't. The son's dark eyes flashed, as if he had a new understanding of mathematics and said thoughtfully.

"Joy, let's go around the market, I'll buy you some delicious food for another fifty dollars, and I'll buy the rest of the money later. I said.

The son did not agree, and was afraid that he would buy fewer cannons. I assured him that if it was less than the cannon in his hand, I would make up the difference twice as much as he agreed. The two of us walked hand in hand into the depths of the market, and it was almost six o'clock after eating the roasted sweet potatoes, and we came to the cannon market again, and a few young men had already begun to shout for price reduction. "Joy, this time you have to learn to bargain," I said, "you use my money to buy cannons, ask a few more stall owners who sell cannons, and each time you will reduce the price by a third, or even half......" Next, my son bargained here and compared the goods, and bought back far more cannons than the first time. He couldn't help but say, "It's really interesting to bargain, like doing arithmetic subtraction." ”

"There's something more useful here than doing arithmetic. I said.

"What's that?"

"Guess?"

"Money, money is more useful. The son said.

"Why buy back more guns for less money the second time?"

"It's bargaining. The son said.

"Why can't you cut it the first time?"

"It's a comparison of goods, and it's not right. The son immediately denied his opinion, and then asked, "Dad, what do you say?"

"It's the timing. ”

"When?"

"Except for the Chinese New Year, do children shoot guns at other times?"

"Don't let go. ”

"What would happen if the people who sold the guns didn't sell them today?"

"The cannon will be sold next year. ”

"You're very good at thinking about problems. Cannons are dangerous goods, easily damaged, and rarely stored. Therefore, after five o'clock in the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the stall owner had to reduce the price in order to sell the cannon. It's called timing. This incident tells you that diligence is only the superficial basis for doing things well, and success is determined by timing and skill. Spending the least amount of money and doing the most is the heroic ability of male dolls. "I don't care if my son understands it or not, so I can finish it in one breath.

The game of buying guns is over.

When he returned to his mother's house, his son yelled for a cannon. "Joy, when we were children, some of the children who didn't pay attention to the danger blew up their fingers," I said, "let's take a good look at the instructions." ”

My son's hands are not hands, and his feet are not feet, and he listens to me carelessly to explain the fireworks. Seeing my son not afraid of danger, I couldn't help laughing in my heart, not laughing at my son, but laughing at a lot of verbal education about danger in our schools today.

If people lack this awareness at the age of 12 or 3, they will have a fear mentality once they encounter problems, and they will shrink from difficulties all their lives, and it will be difficult for them to take on things alone.

"Joy, do you remember the last time you were scared and fell by a car on the back wall of the hospital?"

"Yes. ”

"Is it dangerous?"

"Of course it's dangerous. If you don't dodge quickly, you'll be hit to death. ”

"It's as dangerous as the last time. ”

"Is it so dangerous to fire a cannon?" asked the son in surprise.

"You used to have a twist cannon, but this time it's different. I said, "Is the bottle sturdy?"

"Sturdy. ”

"Let's do an experiment. ”

I deliberately found a cracked small bottle, put a cannon in it, and blew it up with a "boom". I said, "The bottle is so strong that it will blow up, isn't it terrible if it blows up on people?"

"It's horrible. ”

"Should we read the instructions for the fireworks?"

"Yes. But I don't know many words!"

"That's one of the things that language learning does. If you have good philology, you can understand many things at a glance. I said.