After talking about Lu Jin, Su Yan called Lu Yiming to her side, "Yiming, you will be five years old on New Year's Day, so you should learn to read and count now."

"Mom, Brother Goudan said that the schools are closed and we don't have to study."

"Do you think so too? If you don't study, what are you going to do when you grow up? If you can't even read, do you think you want to farm when you grow up?"

“I want to fly a plane when I grow up.”

"You want to be a pilot like in your novel? Your uncle went to college."

"But the school is closed. What should I do if I can't study?"

"If you want to learn, mom and dad can teach you first."

Anyway, schools will resume classes next year. Although the college entrance examination has not been resumed, there are workers, peasants and soldiers universities to attend.

Su Yan was not in a hurry for her son to enter college, although during this period elementary school would be changed to a five-year system with junior high and high school being two years each.

Next year, Lu Yiming will be allowed to go to the first grade. As long as he does not repeat a grade, he will graduate from high school at the age of fifteen, and he will be able to take part in the first college entrance examination when it is resumed at the age of sixteen.

The most important thing now is not to let him repeat a grade. There is no mercy in this era. If your grades are not good, you will be eliminated and made to repeat a grade. There are many students who do not study hard and repeat a grade every year.

Su Yan felt that making money was not as important as her children's education. Since she was not short of money now, of course she would focus on her children's education.

She wished that Lu Yiming still had memories of his previous life, so that she could at least learn to tell him simple things.

Educating children is not her responsibility alone. Su Yan wanted to drag Lu Ting into the matter, so she waved at him.

"Dad, you teach Yiming math and how to count, and I'll teach him Chinese, starting with the simple words."

"Okay, then I'll teach him to count tonight, from one to ten."

"Dad, I've already learned how to count from one to ten. If you don't believe me, just listen to me and I'll tell you one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten."

"What's after ten?"

"Dad, I know it's twenty."

Lu Ting held his forehead and wondered whose son this stupid kid was. He didn't want him anymore. Whoever wanted him could take it.

"You just counted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. You must add one after the ten, ten, and then eleven."

Su Yan picked a basket of strawberries from the space, washed twenty of them and put them on a plate, then took another empty plate and placed it on the coffee table.

"If you count these twenty strawberries correctly, they'll all be yours. Keep teaching him how to count, kid."

Lu Yiming knew that his mother was serious. If he didn't count carefully, all the strawberries would definitely be eaten by his father.

So he took the initiative to step forward and took out the fruits from the plate and put them into another fruit plate. "One... two... three... four... five... six... seven... eight... nine... ten... eleven. Dad, what's the number after eleven?"

"Think about it: adding one after ten makes eleven, adding one after eleven makes twelve, adding one after twelve makes thirteen, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on..."

"Dad, I get it. Ten is followed by eleven, one is followed by twelve, eleven is followed by twelve, two is followed by thirteen, twelve is followed by thirteen..."

Lu Ting's eyes lit up, and he said, how could the child of him and Su Yan be a fool? If he didn't learn from one example, he would be able to apply it to other situations.

Lu Ting led him to count the strawberries on the plate over and over again. By the fourth time they counted, the strawberries were a little scratched. The father and son ate all the strawberries in the plate, taking turns to eat one.

Before going to bed, Lu Ting held Su Yan in his arms and asked, "Yan Yan, will you really go back to school next year?"

"Yes, believe me, that prophetic dream shouldn't be wrong. Your son is too naughty. Now is the time to cultivate good study habits in him.

If Chen Yuhe marries into the Lu family, Lanlan won't have to go to the nursery anymore, or else our son won't have to go to the nursery either."

"Do you want her to help you take care of the baby?"

"I want her to teach your son to read and write, but since she's a new daughter-in-law and seems a bit awkward, she definitely won't take the money. If we don't give her, it'll seem like we're taking advantage of her. Forget it, let's just send her to the nursery!"

"If you don't send that kid to the nursery to play with his friends and let him stay at home, he will definitely not be able to get used to it."

"Well, let him play for another year. But when he comes back tonight, we have to make sure he starts studying. In the second half of this year, he'll learn to read and count to 100. In the first half of next year, he'll learn to write and do addition and subtraction within 20."

"Yan Yan, will our son lose interest in studying if we do this? My parents never cared about us when we were in school. Even when we brought home awards, they would just glance at us at most."

Su Yan suddenly thought of parents of this generation. They generally don’t care much about their children’s studies, and not many of them let their children study. Even if they want to care about their children’s studies, they don’t have the time.

Some parents encourage their children to do more housework, especially those in rural areas. Children as old as her son have to go to the fields to pick rice ears during the busy farming season.

Parents in later generations start accompanying their children from kindergarten, and they have endless handicrafts and paintings to do with their children. They participate in various parent-child activities one after another, travel with their children, and record various short videos to submit homework.

In addition to the above matters, when children go to elementary school, parents also need to help tutor them in various subjects, supervise their studies, check their homework and sign it.

The school held various activities, and parents had to compete with each other in talent. You had to accompany your child on stage, sing when your child played the piano, and give speeches when your child won an award. Sometimes you even had to stand at the school gate as an auxiliary police officer directing traffic.

In short, as a parent, even if you had average talent when you were in school, your skills will improve in all aspects because you start accompanying your children in their studies after you have children.

Su Yan felt a little melancholy. Was she too impatient? It was indeed wrong to force the growth of a child, but leaving the child alone was not her style. Maybe it was because she had never been a parent in her previous life that she was so nervous now?

It's better to take it one step at a time. When she has time, she still has to take care of her child's studies, mainly to cultivate his good study habits. Once good study habits are formed, she naturally won't have to worry about her child's studies.

Besides, she and Lu Ting have to go to work, so they only have a little time to take care of the children's studies at night.

Seeing that Su Yan was silent, Lu Ting thought she was unhappy, so he comforted her: "Yan Yan, Yiming is still young, we can slowly catch up with his studies."

"Okay, take your time. There's still a year left. Before he goes to school, we need to correct some of your son's bad behavior habits."

"for example?"

"For example, lack of concentration, wandering thoughts, being too lazy to exercise after eating, or being unable to control one's emotions..."

"Having said that, I've discovered that our Yiming has quite a few shortcomings. He can't concentrate, his mind wanders, and he definitely can't persevere in doing things.

If you eat a full meal but are too lazy to move, not only will you gain weight easily, but once you become lazy you will also become unmotivated.

Being unable to control one's emotions and showing them on one's face can easily be seen through and exploited by others, and is a sign of immaturity and instability."

"I think what you said is right. We should not ignore small things and should not act rashly because they are difficult. Yiming's bad behavior habits should be changed."