Chapter Seventy-Three: The Governess (1)
The results of Yangyang's final exam are as unsatisfactory as the midterm exam, always stagnant in the middle of the stream and do not move forward, for which I have been scolded by my family for several reincarnations, they all agree that Yangyang's academic performance is not up, it is because I am not strict with his discipline, especially with the computer I bought back has a lot to do with it. www.biquge.info The person who scolded me the most was not my mother-in-law or Lu Tao, but my mother! My mother-in-law scolded me in the style of scolding Huai or sarcasm, and my biological mother always scolded me in the style of splitting her head and covering her face! My mother scolded me directly and violently, and sometimes she would slap me on the shoulder and back in such a way that she was so angry that even though I was in my thirties, my mother often treated me like a teenager.
However, I didn't react much to my family's accusations, sometimes I simply argued for myself, and sometimes I simply ignored them, because I was used to it. However, ignoring the accusations of my family, it does not mean that I take Yangyang's learning seriously, on the contrary, I have always been responsible for Yangyang's learning at home, I accompany Yangyang to do homework every night, and I go to open every parent-teacher meeting, and every extracurricular book and reference book in Yangyang is I bought back for him from the bookstore, in a word, I am also a very important person for children's learning, but I am not as exaggerated as some parents, always regard children's learning as the top priority, and the cultivation of children's health and behavioral habits is ranked behind。
I decided to hire a tutor for Yangyang!
There is a key university on the edge of Taigu City, called Shanxi Agricultural University, on the eve of the holiday, you can see the tutoring advertisements posted by agricultural students in the streets and alleys or in the courtyard of the community, and being a tutor is a favorite part-time job for college students. One day on the way off work, I tore up a tutor advertisement like this, and when I got home, I called according to the phone on the advertisement, and it was a boy who answered the phone, I didn't even ask about the price he charged, I only asked him if he was willing to tutor my son to study, and he said yes, so he came to my house the next night.
The tutor of this student from Agricultural University is a big boy from Northeast China, surnamed Zhao, who is in his third year of college. After my initial understanding, his father had passed away at an early age, and there were still his mother and younger brother at home, and it could be seen from his thin body and cheap clothes that he was a child of a poor family, so he worked everywhere to earn tuition.
After Xiao Zhao came to my house, I quit Yangyang's study at night, I think it will be more effective to let the tutor accompany him to study than I accompany him, because when I accompany him, he has no sense of fear, he has to eat and drink for a while, he can not concentrate, in front of the strange tutor, his thoughts may be less, and his attention will be concentrated.
In addition to asking the tutor to help Yang Yang with his homework, I also asked the tutor to use half an hour every day to tutor Yang Yang's English, because his English grades have regressed the fastest recently. I have always wondered why I installed English word memorization software in the computer for Yang Yang, and often urged people to follow the software to memorize words, but his English score did not go up but dropped?! This is also one of the reasons why I don't want to talk more when my family blames me. Is it true that computers do more harm than good to children? Am I really buying the wrong computer? I still don't believe that this is the case, I only know that computers have been completely popularized, and if a family does not have a computer, it will undoubtedly not be able to keep up with the pace of social development.
Xiao Zhao is a person who is not good at words, he says hello to me every day when he enters the door, stays quietly in the study and Yangyang for an hour and a half, and then says hello to me before going out and goes back to school at night. I asked Yang Yang what he thought of Xiao Zhao, and Yang Yang said that he didn't hate Teacher Xiao Zhao, based on which Lu Tao and I deduced that Xiao Zhao and Yang Yang cooperated well, and it should work quickly, and I even expected that Yang Yang's results in the next exam would have an amazing leap, and Teacher Xiao Zhao would definitely help Yang Yang prove his IQ and potential to his homeroom teacher, Teacher Bai. But unexpectedly, just ten days later, Mr. Xiao Zhao suddenly resigned to us, saying that Yangyang's memory was too poor and he had not memorized a single English word for ten days, and he could not do anything but resign.
Although I don't want to believe Mr. Zhao's words, I still found time to lead Yangyang to do an IQ test, and the test results showed that Yangyang's memory is normal, the strongest is logical thinking, reading ability is poor, and the psychology teacher said that poor reading ability is directly related to the amount of reading that Yangyang usually reads. The final test result is that Yang Yang's total IQ is above 100, which belongs to the intelligent category. So since he is a smart child, why can't he remember English words? The psychology teacher said that the most likely reason is that Yangyang doesn't like to learn English. Why don't you like to learn English? I asked Yangyang, but Yangyang asked me, why do Chinese learn English? I said that English is the most common language in the world, there are nearly 200 countries speaking English, and learning English well can better communicate with the world, which is very important. But the young Yang Yang said that I don't want to communicate with the world, I just need to communicate with the Chinese.
It seems that it doesn't make much difference to explain the truth to Yangyang. Then the next task is to make Yang Yang like to learn English, right? Maybe it's because Xiao Zhao is not humorous enough and doesn't like to laugh and laugh, maybe it would be better if you hire a lively and cheerful tutor, maybe it will arouse Yang Yang's interest in learning English.
A few days later, I invited a female college student from the Agricultural University, and I think the female student is probably better able to communicate with children. Sure enough, Yang Yang likes this big sister very much, not only usually accepts the guidance of this big sister, but also follows the big sister to play on the campus of Agricultural University every once in a while, and is with this big sister's tutor, Yangyang's laughter is obviously more.
One day, I flipped Yangyang's English textbook to the last word page and dictated a few words from him at random, but to my shock, Yangyang wrote all five words wrong! I chose five more, but he still couldn't write it, and then I dictated his "name", but he couldn't, I pointed to the "name" in the book and asked him how to read this unit, what did it mean? He said he didn't know, I was dizzy!
I asked the big sister tutor, and the big sister tutor said the same thing as the first tutor Xiao Zhao: Yangyang's memory is not very good!
When Yang Yang was two years old, I fed a little black dog at home, and Yang Yang still remembers that dog, and I still remember the scene when I grabbed the dog and fell to the ground, Yang Yang's memory is no problem at all!
The problem still didn't arouse Yangyang's interest in learning English.
I heard that there is an ABC fun English training class on the street, which uses the teaching method of learning English while playing games, it must be very interesting, let Yangyang go! At first, Yangyang did not object, of course, I also told him how interesting this training course was, so he sent him by me. No, after a month of studying in the ABC Fun English Training Class, Yangyang will only count the numbers from 1 to 10 "one, two, three, four", and the latter will not be, as if his English level is not as good as that of a kindergarten child.
I was completely confused, and the more confused I was, the more I didn't dare to criticize Yangyang, because I couldn't find the reason there, and if I couldn't find the reason, it meant that the problem was bigger. If it is true that Yangyang was born with a bad memory, the problem will be clear and simple, just like you can't force a mentally handicapped child to take the entrance examination to Tsinghua University. But because I am his mother, I know that my son definitely does not have a bad memory, nor is he mentally retarded! For example, in terms of computer operation, Yang Yang has long surpassed me, and sometimes I have some computer problems, I must not consult Yang Yang! Can this be said that he has a problem with his IQ?
Yangyang later withdrew from the ABC fun English training class, one is that he doesn't want to go, and the other I don't force it, this is not a habit of children who are not attached and easy to give up halfway, but I realize that Yangyang is useless in such a class. The question now is not how to help Yangyang learn English well, but why Yangyang always can't learn English well.
Later, I stopped hiring college student tutors, maybe college student tutors still lack teaching experience, and the training courses on the street are only focused on profits, and they do little or not well in developing students' potential, enhancing students' interest, and opening students' hearts. I paid a high price to hire a senior English teacher for Yangyang, but the senior teacher generally does not come to the door to provide service, and we need to send the child over. So, every day after dinner, from 7 to 8 o'clock, I sent Yangyang to the home of this senior English teacher surnamed Yang. The price of one hour of tutoring is equivalent to paying a college student's tutor for ten nights.
Every day when I bring Yang Yang back from the tutor's house, I will carefully observe Yang Yang's face to see if he is happy or unhappy. At first, Yangyang's face was quite calm, but when he sent him or picked him up, he always frowned, but he didn't say anything, and I still sent him there every day. And this time there was an accident just a week ago, and it was still violent, and Yangyang threw the teacher's desk lamp to the ground!
"Hurry up and bring your child back, I can't teach him!" These are the words that Teacher Yang said to us when he finally walked out of Teacher Yang's house.
It turned out that when Yangyang went to Mr. Yang's house every day to take classes, he always carried a toy pistol in his schoolbag, and in the middle of studying, he always had to take it out to play, and he didn't listen to the teacher's warnings several times, and finally one day the teacher was angry, snatched the gun from his hand, and threw it downstairs from the window, Yangyang's reaction was to smash the lamp of the teacher's house!
After two months of hard work, I failed to hire a tutor for Yangyang! To be honest, I was so anxious about Yangyang that I didn't dare to mention learning English with him. (To be continued.) )