孩子从小就是欢喜劳动的。在幼儿时期,开始模仿大人的各种劳动,在家里模仿大人的家务劳动,他们把劳动看成是一种游戏。但是,这种模仿性的劳动往往得不到支持,把手、脸、衣服、鞋袜弄脏了,反而受到责骂或阻止,这样无形地挫伤了孩子劳动的积极性。家长对孩子的家务劳动,从小就要加以培养、鼓励和指导,有时小小的轻微劳动,还能培养智力。有一位老教育家讲过这样一个故事:我有一个刚进幼儿园的孙子。有一次,他的玩具小汽车放在桌子的中间,他去拿,但个子没有桌子高,够不着。他对我说:“爷爷!我要汽车。”我说:“你自己拿。”他说:“我拿不着。”我说:“你自己想办法拿。”我仍旧坐在桌旁看我的书。他见我不肯替他拿,就自己动脑筋,看到玩具下有一张报纸,报纸的一角 Children are happy to work from an early age. In early childhood, they began to imitate adult labor and imitate adult domestic work at home. They regarded labor as a game. However, this imitative work is often unsupported, and dirty hands, faces, clothes and footwear, but is scolded or stopped, thus invisibly dampening the enthusiasm of children’s work. Parents of children’s domestic work, from childhood to be trained, encouraged and guided, and sometimes minor minor labor, but also to develop intelligence. An old educator talked about such a story: I have a grandson who has just entered kindergarten. Once, his toy car was placed in the middle of the table. He went to get it, but he was tall without a table. He said to me: “Grandpa! I want a car.” I said: “You take it yourself.” He said: “I can not get it.” I said, “You can do it yourself.” I still sit at the table to see my book. He saw I would not take it for him, on their own brains, saw a toy under the newspaper, the corner of the newspaper