"They're so young, can they even understand it?" Huo Tingzhou didn't have much of a memory of anything before he was three years old.
"It should be fine, right?"
Jiang Si is also a first-time mother, and she doesn't have much experience in this area.
However, there are still quite a few educational picture books on this subject in later generations.
I heard that babies' vision is blurry when they are three months old.
They can't understand complex colors; they can only understand simple black and white.
During this period, it is beneficial to frequently show children patterns composed of black and white colors.
For example, animals like zebras, penguins, and giant pandas can help train children's visual tracking abilities.
As they get older, they can transition to black and red, and then to various colors.
Jiang Si had no intention of raising her child with excessive academic pressure. She just wanted her child to grow up happily and healthily, and the rest... she would leave to her husband.
Anyway, she couldn't roll it anymore, and she didn't want to.
However, we should definitely give our children what we can within our means.
Drawing a few picture books is not difficult for her; let's just consider it her first birth gift to the children.
Since Jiang Si had said so, Huo Tingzhou naturally wouldn't object.
She is only three months pregnant right now, and there is still plenty of time before the baby is born.
Thinking this, Huo Tingzhou said, "How about we wait a couple more days? I'll go with you this weekend."
It takes about an hour to drive from the military base to the county, and the supply truck usually travels at a relatively high speed.
Sometimes if you arrive late, you have to stand.
Huo Tingzhou dared not let her go alone.
Jiang Si thought about it and agreed.
The main problem is that she's not familiar with the county, and she'd have to ask around when she got there. Having Huo Tingzhou with her would definitely make things easier.
So early on the weekend morning, the two went to the county for a big shopping spree.
Oil pastels, crayons, and watercolors can be bought by visiting a few different places.
The only problem is the heavy-duty cardstock.
Jiang Si searched all the shops in the county that sold stationery, but still couldn't find it.
In the end, I had to settle for second best and chose thicker sketch paper.
After purchasing all the necessary items, Jiang Si returned home and began to focus on her creative work.
Time passed by at a leisurely pace, and around the end of May, Jiang Si finally finished her work.
I drew more than a hundred pictures in total, covering the subjects of animals, geometric shapes, simple daily necessities, and so on.
As for the binding, punching, and paper polishing, Jiang Si entrusted Huo Tingzhou with all the work.
As for herself, she was busy making cloth books for the children.
They chose fabrics that felt soft to the touch, such as pure cotton or corduroy.
There weren't many colors of fabric available in that era, but that didn't pose a problem for Jiang Si.
After two days of color matching and dyeing, Jiang Si finally collected all the colors she wanted.
Unexpectedly, after the cloth book picture book was made, the child didn't like it, but the child's father was the first to flip through it.
They watched it with great interest.
Seeing this, Jiang Si couldn't help but find it amusing.
She simply couldn't reconcile the gentle-looking man in front of her with the strict instructor He Ping and the others had described.
However, on the other hand, Jiang Si suddenly looked him up and down.
"How can you be a good strict father if you act like this?"
Huo Tingzhou hesitated for a moment, "Does being a strict father have to be so important?"
"Of course! Look at Teacher Hu's family, when they educate their children, one of them plays the good cop and the other the bad cop."
Jiang Si was self-aware; she had been pampered since childhood.
To some extent, it's already quite good that she doesn't spoil her children or go along with them in their bad ways.
It's definitely not suitable for her to be a strict mother.
Therefore, this arduous task could only be entrusted to him.
Huo Tingzhou seemed to have encountered some kind of problem. He had once thought that with his cold and hard personality, he would definitely be a stern father who never smiled after becoming a father.
But ever since his wife got pregnant, he found that he couldn't do it.
Huo Tingzhou said frankly, "Being a strict father may be difficult, but I will do my best to be a father that they all like and can rely on."
Jiang Si understood his reluctance, but sometimes, one shouldn't speak too definitively.
So she deliberately set a trap for him, saying, "Well, I believe in you. You'll definitely be a good father in the future, the kind that everyone loves and flowers adore."
At this point, Jiang Si suddenly changed the subject, a sly smile in her eyes.
"From now on, the job of tutoring the children when they go to school will be yours."
Huo Tingzhou wasn't oblivious to the smile in his wife's eyes, especially with Lao Xiao, the big mouth, present, but he still readily agreed.
There is no other reason.
Simply because she is the child's mother.
For this reason alone, he couldn't bear to give the children a stern look.
Seeing that he had agreed, Jiang Si narrowed her smiling eyes, about to say something more.
Suddenly I felt something gently slide across my stomach.
Jiang Si froze on the spot.
"Honey, what's wrong?"
Huo Tingzhou noticed something was wrong with her and quickly threw away the cloth book he was holding.
Jiang Si was so angry she wanted to slap him, "I'm fine, just pick that thing up..."
Before the words were even finished, the bulge, about the size of a ping-pong ball, slid back again.
"Wait a minute, look..."
Jiang Si was so excited, her voice trembling, as if she had never seen the sky before.
"Is this the fetal movement that Dr. Jiang mentioned?"
Unfortunately, Jiang Si's pregnancy started relatively late this year.
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