Soviet education is usually idealized. Pioneer camps, bonfires, a friendly shoulder, faith in a brighter future, universal equality, no “iPhones” and “Facebook” ... The older generation remembers with nostalgia, the younger generation more often - with irony. If we drop all the conventions, there really was a lot of good in Soviet education. However, let's think about how realistic it would be to educate modern children on these principles.
Principle one. The state will take care of you
Soviet children grew up with the firm conviction that the state would determine their life: they would provide education, a profession, a place of work, and housing and medical care. Naturally, everything is free. Naturally, not everyone became a director or a boss. However, each profession was called honorary.
Our days. The state determines the basic rights and freedoms of a citizen. Everyone builds his own life. You can only hope for yourself. A child brought up on the principle of "The state owes me" is doomed to frustration and life failures.
Principle two. Everything for the team
“The interests of the collective are higher than the interests of the individual” —the author Makarovko, an authoritative teacher in the USSR, said this or that way. In the Soviet collective, children became outcasts, who sought first of all a benefit for themselves, avoided public duties and work. But to drive children to free farm work during the holidays was considered the norm - they cultivated diligence under the slogan "help our Soviet collective farmers". In fairness, we say that for many children the "social burden" really was to their liking.
Our days. Now it is those who are trying to protect their interests, are doomed to success. To live in favor of the collective in our time means to turn into a person to whom everyone will "ride" - first classmates, and then bosses with work colleagues.
The third principle. With children it is necessary stricter
Not to spoil the child, not to give him extra will, to cross the "sabotage" initiatives - according to such principles the Soviet parents were taught to raise their own children. Is a two month baby crying in a crib? Do not approach at all! Educate the character! Does the child beg for a toy? Do not buy - will be spoiled! Was the teenager interested in rock music? Forcefully cut his patla and lock him at home! To give a good motherly or fatherly slap baby was considered the norm.
Our days. Modern mothers are increasingly complaining that the new principles of raising children turn parents into slaves of their own child. From the first years of life, babies' mothers are "attached" to them, not having time for themselves and their careers. Children are overwhelmed with toys that they buy at first wish. Strictness in education was replaced by attempts to talk and persuade children (not always successful). It is no wonder why modern mothers increasingly nostalgically recall the good old "principles of severity." Is it good or bad? Each family determines itself.
Principle Four. No talking "about it"
“Mom, where do children come from?”, “Mom, and Misha told me that his sister has no“ tap ”, as I have with him. Will he grow up yet?” And my mother quenched, tells stories about storks and cabbage, and sends a curious crumb to dad. The father, extinguishing not less, repeats the mother's fables. All - moral education is completed, the child is protected from harmful knowledge about sex. He will receive his first "real" knowledge from the older children in the yard, no longer trusting his parents sincerely.
Our days. Whether we like it or not, but now the information of sex fat is open. Sex is everywhere: in advertising, on TV and radio, in magazines. You can save a child from it only by locking the baby in a room without windows and means of communication. Therefore, modern parents have to buy books of smart psychologists and, embarrassed and confused, tell interested kids about sex. At an affordable level, of course.
Modern parents need to take the best from the old upbringing: kindness, mutual aid, faith in their own strength - and try to instill it in the child along with the principles of modern upbringing. This will be the "golden mean" for most families.
