Chapter 50: Raise a Smart Child
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The Carpenter Family, recorded on cBs, aired shortly after the recording was completed, and the show aroused the interest of many viewers as soon as it aired. People want to know about the Carpenter brothers' live performances, musical talents, high IQs, family trivia, and more. Many media outlets have reported on the Carpenter family as a news headline.
"Are IQ tests accurate? Are the Carpenter brothers really that smart? ”
"Singing a song on the spot, the Carpenter brothers won the hearts of everyone!"
"The Carpenter are the best expression of the American Dream! They love each other and work hard until they succeed! ”
"There's no better Carpenter family in the world! The perfect couple gave birth to the perfect baby! ”
Unexpectedly, Angel became inexplicably popular, and many housewives called the TV station one after another, indicating that they were looking for her. So many people are on the phone that the telephone line of the television station is occupied all the time and cannot be used normally.
"Why are you looking for me? Why? Angel also felt strange when she received a call from the radio staff.
In her opinion, she didn't show how good she was in the TV show, and she didn't even say a few words. It stands to reason that the focus should be on the child.
Yes, she had a good idea. The focus of attention is indeed on the Carpenter siblings, but as housewives, the audience is more concerned about raising such a wonderful mother.
The audience called Angel to ask him a lot of strange questions, some of which Angel didn't know how to answer. Because viewers couldn't get the phone number from Carpenter's house, many people wrote to the TV station and asked them to relay it to Angel. In these letters, many bizarre questions were raised.
"What do you make breakfast for your kids every day?"
"What brand of milk powder are you using?"
"What posture do you use when you **? Is it true that children born in certain positions are smarter? ”
"The child is five years old, but he is very naughty, I don't know how you communicate with the child?"
"What do you eat to give birth to a smart baby when you're pregnant?"
Faced with these problems, Angel couldn't help but laugh. When she first started, she answered patiently, but many people asked repetitive questions. As a result, Angel began to get irritable, and she spent the whole day answering these letters, without her own personal time.
"Oh my God, the previous letter hasn't been disposed of, and today's letter has been sent again. I couldn't stand it anymore, and they kept asking me questions about how to raise children. Forget it, I won't reply anymore, just let them scold. ”
Faced with Angel's distress, Alex gave her advice: "Why don't you write a book to tell mothers or women who are going to be mothers how to raise children." ”
"Writing a book? No, no, no, I wrote it, I didn't go to school for many days, how could I write a book? ”
Angel knew how many pounds she had, she could still write letters, but it would be torture to let her write books.
Bart coughed dryly and gestured with his eyes. Angel immediately understood, she smiled and put her arm around Alex's shoulders and said, "Why don't you help me write this book, I said you will write it." ”
When Alex heard this, he knew that he was really digging a hole to bury himself. He nodded yes, but before that, he contacted Bantan Books and asked them if they wanted to publish a book on parenting.
After hearing this, Carl happily patted the case and said, "We were about to ask you to write a book like this, but I didn't expect you to propose it yourself." Okay, then hurry up and write it. While your popularity on the show is still there, launching this book will definitely sell well. ”
This book is quite simple to write, that is, to polish the content dictated by Angel, and at the same time he also added some knowledge of baby care and health care that will only be available in later generations. The book is not thick, only about 100,000 words, and it only took two weeks to complete.
The title of the book is called "Raising Your Children Like the Carpenters", and the book was published at the right time. In the fifties, Americans' incomes increased dramatically, improving people's living standards. The advent of the baby boom has also aroused interest in raising children.
The author is dictated by Angel and written by Alex. Even before the book was published, there was already a book of the same genre that was selling well. It was published in 1946 by Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense of Infant and Child Health."
However, Angel's parenting book soon suppressed the "Common Sense of Infant and Child Health", and when people went to buy books, they would always choose this book first about how the Carpenter family raised children.
"Raise Your Children Like the Carpenters" is written in a light-hearted tone, and Alex doesn't write it as obscure as the manual, but tells the story of Angel's three children, and summarizes the tips of raising a baby at the end of each chapter.
Those who buy such books will love the contents of this book as soon as they see it.
Even when someone introduces them to the book written by the Ph.D., someone immediately retorts, "The Ph.D. does have a lot of theoretical knowledge, but has he put his theory into practice?" Can he raise three very smart children like Angel? ”
As soon as he said this, the man's mind was immediately changed, and he had planned to buy the doctor's book.
As soon as the book was released, it was immediately hyped and sold so well that it almost overshadowed the Harry Potter series. More than 10,000 copies are sold every year, and parents love to read such a light-hearted book on baby care.
One mother wrote to Angel: "You made me feel like I'm a smart person. I'm sure my own children will be smart too. ”
Angel received a flood of letters, most of which said that she would try to revive her child's optimism even when she refused to eat vegetables, was unwilling to speak coherently, and had broken her home machine to pieces.
There are also parents who feel that they are too busy and care about their children flawlessly, and they blame themselves for being "selfish parents" and feel that raising children is "an unbearable burden".
"I know that many of my problems are self-inflicted," one mother wrote.
For such parents, Angel usually writes to comfort them, and also asks them to take some time out of their children, no matter how busy or tired.
Angel soon became a star for women and a mentor to thousands of housewives in the United States. In order to speed up the processing of more and more letters, she even hired a special assistant to take care of replying to them. She insisted on replying to every letter and not disappointing those who had expectations for her.
When Angel's fame became more and more famous and her influence grew, some TV stations came to interview the mother who raised the smartest child.
At this time, Angel has already been reborn, and in the face of the camera, he is not afraid to talk about everything. Once the program about her was broadcast, it attracted a large number of housewives to watch it, and the ratings of the television station soared all at once.
In the face of such strong popularity, some television stations invited her to host a program dedicated to women. If it weren't for the fact that she was still in charge of a company's finances and didn't have any skills, she would definitely agree to it.
She has so many things to do, the company's work, interview arrangements, reply letters, etc., so busy that sometimes she can't eat.
Looking at the busy Angel, Alex felt a little strange, and he asked, "Mom, why are you putting so much pressure on yourself." Isn't it good to have the kind of leisurely housewife life in the past, and it is much easier to go shopping, drink tea, and chat every day? ”
Angel looked at her son in surprise, she touched her forehead and said, "Alex, I really didn't expect you to say that." In my opinion, you should be the one who understands me best. ”
Alex shrugged his shoulders and said, "Why do you think that." ”
"You know, I didn't have the opportunity to study when I was a child, and at that time I thought that my life was like this, and I couldn't change it. After marrying Bart, I had a new pursuit, a new goal. As your parents, nurturing you to become successful is my goal and the value of my life. Now I want to help other women realize their own value in life, you know? ”
Is the goal of parents to become their own children, this kind of love is really too heavy. If this is really a good parent, then he would rather never get married and have children.