Why should children read the Bible, and should young children read the Bible?

Nowadays, people are more and more respectful of the classics, and many activities have been carried out to recite the classics, and even in the kindergarten, the classic group is held to recite the competition, so should children read the Bible?

Some people think that they should read the scriptures, because reciting the scriptures is equivalent to making friends with an old man full of wisdom, easily accepting his teachings and absorbing his wisdom.

But there are also people who think that young children should not read the Bible, because the harm of reading the Bible to young children far outweighs the benefits. Most of the scriptures are full of texts, and the narrative and grammatical structure are far from the modern way of speaking. In addition, the study of ancient Chinese classics must take the essence and eliminate the dross, and children do not have the thinking ability to make such trade-offs.

If you can't do this, it's better not to read, we should figure out what children need, in early childhood, we should teach children to think about it, cultivate good habits, and use the most direct and easy-to-understand stories to educate children that are the most profound.

And not all parents have the ability to guide their children to read the Bible, childhood thinking is characterized by specific image thinking, the scriptures to the children can not let them understand intuitively, can only rely on listening, reading, memorization to learn, which will make children feel that this is learning, in the long run will make children lose interest in learning and even have disgust, in contrast to bring children some easy-to-understand children's books better.

The main thing is that the method of reading the Bible is too rigid, and it is a kind of cramming education. Young children are forced to memorize some classics that they don't know at all, which is not conducive to children's physical and mental development. It also makes children have a feeling of disgust with China's traditional classics.

When you get to elementary school, you may be able to teach children some simple scriptures in a more understandable way, but don't read them to them in early childhood!

As long as it's a Buddhist scripture, any sutra can be used. The sutras that are often recited include the Diamond Sutra, the Jizo Sutra, the Heart Sutra, and the Heart Sutra of All Things. Note that after copying the scriptures, you must dedicate yourself to the merits to the children.

Buddhist scriptures, Mahayana scriptures.

It is recommended that "Medicine Master Liuliguang Seven Buddha Wish Merit Sutra", "Sangha Sutra", "Myoho-renge-kyo Sutra", "Jizo Bodhisattva Sutra", "Void Tibetan Bodhisattva Sutra", "Guanyao King Yaoshang Two Bodhisattva Sutra", "Pumen Pin", "Fuxian Bodhisattva Wishing Product".

Reciting sutras is to bring out your own mind, and to truly practice the wishes of the practitioners, corresponding to the wishes of the Buddha, this is the special merit of chanting the sutras.

Of course, to pray for children, you can recite the "Amitabha Sutra", which is very fast. It's okay to ask for anything for your child.

Also, in addition to chanting scriptures and praying for blessings, no matter what wishes for children, the method of burning incense and worshiping the Buddha is advisable, if you have the heart, you can go to the nearest temple to pray for blessings, for the child's health, studies, etc., you can also ask a few boxes of natural plant incense to pray for the Buddha in the phaseless copper furnace, so that you can better convey your wishes to the Bodhisattva!