text | Mi Li’s mother
It is said that domestic children are struggling, spending generations of the whole family, emptying 6 wallets to buy a house in a school district, and stacking various interest classes, just to win the opportunity to attend a prestigious school.
Some time ago, a video of a Haidian child’s daily routine on weekends became a hot topic. There was a message in the comment area that said, “It feels like he has done half of my life in one weekend.”
Mi Li’s mother felt funny and sad at the same time.
But in fact, this child's schedule is very ordinary in Daidian, the center of the universe. Not to mention that the Niuwa next to Mi Li's mother is exactly the same as him, but also very different.
Parents have tried their best and worried about planning for their children's future.
In fact, looking at home and abroad, old fathers and mothers have the same mood when it comes to supporting their children with all their strength.
Can you imagine that Sho Sakurai, a former member of Japan's top idol group Arashi, after being promoted to a dad, the first thing he considered was to train his children to attend Keio Elementary School.
A member of the country's top idol group not only became a baby daddy, but also started having a baby. This change was really unexpected.
However, if you know a little bit about Sakurai Sho's background, you will know that it is not unusual for him to make such a decision.
Sho Sakurai comes from a well-known family. His father graduated from Tokyo University Law School and holds an important position in the Japanese government. His mother is an aristocratic lady and graduated from Ochanomizu Women's University, which is the "reserve for wives of high-ranking officials."
He is also very ambitious himself. He graduated from the Keio Faculty of Economics. In 2021, he married an outsider wife who is also the school beauty of Keio.
In 2023, Sho Sakurai announced through the media that he was promoted to a daddy, and revealed that he hopes that his next generation can continue the family's lineage of prestigious schools, and is preparing to apply for him to Keio Elementary School.
Is it too exaggerated that the baby starts to "roll up" as soon as he is born?
is really not!
Keio University is the first higher education institution in Japanese history and is known as "Asia's No. 1 Private School". It not only has top educational resources, but most importantly, its alumni association "Mita Kai" The human resources it brings are also first-rate.
It is no exaggeration to say that the members of the "Mita Association" are spread across Japan's major high-tech industries, such as major consortiums, companies, and enterprises.
In other words, when looking for a job in the Japanese business and financial circles, the interviewers are likely to be Keio graduates. This is equivalent to Keio graduates having an invisible buff. When you enter Keio, you will have your own connections. .
Within Keying, there is also an invisible "chain of contempt."
The difficulty of admission decreases from kindergarten (equivalent to domestic elementary school), junior high school, high school to university. In other words, Keio University is relatively easier to get into.
By analogy, the primary school, junior high school and high school in Qingying are almost as valuable as our RDF.
Children who have studied at Keio since childhood will be called "Pure Keio", which is also an invisible proof of identity.
In Japan, this private elementary school, which has been established for more than 150 years, is one of the most difficult elementary schools to enter, with a passing rate of less than one tenth. To apply for this elementary school, children's family background, parental education and financial strength are indispensable.
Only with these three basic guarantees can children receive invitations to take entrance exams.
In order not to miss this hard-won opportunity, children are often sent to training classes when they are about 1 year old to receive training specifically for the entrance exam.
Of course, parents need to invest more energy than just children in training.
The training content includes how to write an admission application. Questions such as "reasons for applying to Keio" account for a large part. The autobiography of the founder of
should be read by heart, because Keio Elementary School takes a related article every year. Your understanding of the founder's philosophy and whether you agree with it or not will directly affect the school's view of children.
In order not to hold their children back, many parents begin to seriously study autobiographies and practice writing articles several years in advance.
I believe that Sho Sakurai will embark on this path soon.
In addition to document preparation, family atmosphere and etiquette education for children are also areas that Keio Elementary School attaches particular importance to.
During the entrance evaluation, there will be a "behavior observation" section. The child's usual behavior and answers to the examiner's questions will be evaluated. Therefore, the child's performance at home and the way parents talk to their children will also be tested.
But in fact, this set of assessment standards is not new and is applicable everywhere.
Mi Li's mother once wrote an article before, "The Contempt Chain of New York's Top Ladies: I'm a Mom, I Need a Birkin Bag."
mentioned in it that in New York's Upper East Side, if you want to attend a good kindergarten, parents must first A written application, followed by a parent interview, will then lead to the opportunity to interview the child.
Children's interviews are called "trials."
The kindergarten is very stupid and arranges the "trial play" time during the children's nap time. They will put a particularly novel and particularly attractive toy among some less eye-catching toys.
just wants to see how a group of exhausted babies react in a scene like this. Who has stronger self-control and can queue up; who can't handle the pressure when frustrated and is the first to collapse.
The scene was chaotic. Some children started to grab and push. Some children cried when they found that it was not their turn. The surrounding parents were even more nervous and didn't know whether to step forward to comfort or cheer their children aside.
Kindergarten will not tell parents what to do. Parents' performance at this time is exactly what they want to evaluate. In this way, parents' educational methods and adaptability will immediately become clear.
You can often see that after the "trial" is over, a mother with exquisite makeup helps her child put on his coat and starts crying as soon as he walks out of the kindergarten.
It can be seen that no matter where you are on the earth, if you want to get the best quality resources, you have to use all your abilities and a little luck.
Back to Japan, in addition to Sakurai Sho, a new dad who wants to send his child to Keio Elementary School, there is also a very famous chicken-blood dad in the entertainment industry, Sakai Masato.
Sakai Masato, who became popular after starring in "Naoki Hansawa" and "Legal High", also turned into a chicken baby maniac after getting married and having children.
Since the birth of their eldest son in 2015, Masato Sakai and his wife Miho Kanno have significantly reduced their work intensity, choosing to take turns raising their children at home and working alternately.
They also started preparing for the child's smooth entry into a top private elementary school from the moment he was born.
Japan has a "gym" specially opened for infants and young children, and babies as young as 6 weeks old can participate. There are English classes and exercise classes specially designed for babies. Masato Sakai and his wife took their son to participate in this "gym" class when he was not yet one year old.
When their son was 1 year old, they sent him to a kindergarten that took into account both intellectual development and English education. The monthly tuition alone cost 150,000 yen.
When their children went to kindergarten, the couple was not idle. They attended briefings and visits to various well-known elementary schools, and actively collected all kinds of admission and application information, focusing on knowing themselves and their enemies.
Even though they sent their children to participate in various trainings outside, the couple did not relax. They were very hands-on in educating their children and never slacked off. They basically taught them personally in terms of learning.
In addition to teaching on learning, Miho Kanno also pays great attention to teaching by words and deeds.
She revealed in TV shows and magazine interviews that she is very busy when she has to take care of family and work. Sometimes she is so tired that she even uses body lotion to wash her hair.
But even so, she never thought of giving up her career as an actress, because she wanted to set an example for her children and let them see how hard their mother worked.
In 2021, their eldest son took the primary school registration exam, and the couple took special vacations at the same time to spend time with their child.
The child lived up to expectations, received offers from many prestigious schools, and finally got admitted to the private elementary school of his choice.
"The hearts of parents in the world are pitiful." This sentence applies no matter which country it is in. Every step a child takes is carefully prepared and planned by his parents. It is really not easy.
In fact, the more developed countries and world-class private schools are, the more they talk about grades, grades, and achievements. Trump’s granddaughter can speak fluent Chinese at the age of 5, and our “friend” Gu Ailing has been They are learning and exercising at the same time, and their degree of involution is not inferior to Haidian at all.
Mi Li’s mother had a best friend, and she thought it would be better to change to a more relaxed place because the chicken babies in China were so tired, so she flew her children to Singapore, which is known as the world’s best country in terms of national education.
But when she arrived in Singapore and her children started going to school, she realized that the education system here was so cruel. Compared with it, Haidian was considered "human".
Starting from primary school, Singapore has to face constant diversion, and every diversion will have an immeasurable impact on a child's life.
In Singapore, if you want to go to a prestigious school from childhood to primary school, you have to fight for connections, school district housing, and luck.
After entering elementary school, children have to face continuous classification according to their mother tongue level and pace. The most terrible thing is that there is a national unified gifted class selection (gep program) in the second semester of third grade.
After two rounds of examinations, 1% of the children were finally selected to enter the gifted class. There are probably more than 180 primary schools in Singapore, but there are only 9 primary schools that can open gifted classes.
Mi Li’s mother’s best friend said that in Singapore, you are always diverging and competing.
If a child fails the test once, it will be difficult to counterattack later. The highest score in an ordinary school is lower than the average score in a good school.
So the back side of those beautiful-looking moons is likely to be a cruel truth. There is never any "win by lying down" on the journey of chicken babies.
Going to a prestigious school probably requires money, resources, strength, and luck. Maybe we may not have such perfect abilities.
However, when we accompany our children on the way forward, we can let them see the universal truth as early as possible: hard work will lead to good results, if you want to win in sports competitions, you have to fight hard, and you have to try everything yourself to know the direction.
may not reach the pinnacle of life in the end, but we only want our children to have every today be better than yesterday!
Personal profile: @米里马爱Sharing MiLi’s mother, a returnee from the United States and a parent in Haidian. Focus on learning practical information, educational experience and further education.
