THE HOLIDAY OF THE COUNTRY IS A FAMILY HOLIDAY

THE HOLIDAY OF THE COUNTRY IS THE HOLIDAY OF THE FAMILY

I want to tell you how we prepare in the family for the landmark dates of the country.

We tell the children about the labor commitments and successes that our colleagues celebrate with the holiday. We take the guys with us to the festive column of demonstrators, explain what the banners are talking about, show the honored people. Of course, we are asking the children about the achievements their class has made for the holiday, what are their personal successes.

Before the holidays, family holiday mail works with the load. We do not buy greeting cards, but make them ourselves: we make out drawings, appliqués, invent poems, comic songs. We send homemade souvenirs to relatives and friends.

On the day of the holiday, we have a whole program at home: the general construction, the delivery of gifts, the announcement of a comic order.

At home we have a special corner( a folder and a box) of family relics, which we really treasure. Here you can find medals, medals, certificates, award badges of all family members: grandmothers, grandfathers, dads, mothers, children. On solemn days we use these materials for a family wall newspaper or an exhibition "We are proud of you!".

We also have one more folder. It contains clippings from newspapers and magazines: materials about VI Lenin, about the history of his native city, about the heroes of our country. We replenish it with the whole family. This material helps children at pioneer gatherings, when decorating stands and newspapers in the school. Children know about the participation of Siberians in the Great Patriotic War, veterans, relatives who died at the fronts. On May 9 we all go together to monuments and monuments to soldiers-Siberians. By this day, we collect the branches in advance, put them into the water, so they will blossom. We place them at the foot of the monument. We will stand by the monument. ..

M. Kogan, Novosibirsk

PORTRAIT PLACES ARE NOT FOUND

The school museum council summed up the results. There were also military awards among the exhibits. How did they get to the museum? Perhaps, the invaluable relics are solemnly handed over by the veteran or his relatives? No. The exposition of the museum had many military awards, whose owners were not called. By numbers, of course, you can restore the names of the characters, but it's a different matter: where are they from the museum?

One boy I asked: "Whose medal did you bring?" - "I do not know, I was lying around at home. .." And we.went to the boy home.

From the conversation with his parents, it turned out that the medal "For Courage" belongs to the grandfather who lives in the village. As there was a military reward from the grandson, plainly nobody knew."What was your grandfather awarded?" I ask the boy."He has many medals. Another order is. "- "Do you write to your grandfather?" - "Sometimes. .." - "Did you tell anyone about him, about his exploits, awards?" He is silent.

Than now in this family to make up for the loss of respect, pride in the fighting youth of his grandfather, for his contribution to the defeat of fascism? The apartment has expensive furniture, carpets, crystal, sound recording equipment. The sixth grader has a strange hobby: the whole wall above the bed is sealed with bottle labels. .. And there was not a place for the portrait of the grandfather, the participant of the war. And in the family album there is no photo. What a solid wall of alienation separates the people living in this house from their native man!

Memory. .. It then lives in the fate of the people, the country, if it enters into the life of each of us. On the hollowed-out wall of the Brest Fortress, you can read the words of an unnamed hero: "Hey, you who are coming, we are dying for you."Let's look around ourselves, let's see what we have in the family archives that bears traces of the past, unforgettable. And it is necessary to do this with the participation of children. They should know those who defended our today's peaceful day.

Yu. Andreev, teacher, Angarsk

PAPIN ORDEN

Seryozha studies in the first class with my son. Recently the boy got into an ugly story - he exchanged his father's order "Badge of Honor" for a toy pistol, a slingshot and a gum. In the end, Edik's fifth-grader, with whom the exchange took place, gave the order and Seryozha returned it to his father. I, however, was not at rest with the idea of ​​how it could happen that schoolchildren, without any embarrassment, exchanged a reward. And that's what I found out.

Nikolai Petrovich, Seryozhin's father, is a fine welder. He is respected and appreciated at the plant. But this side of his father's life is unknown to the boy. Sergei does not even know what kind of work his father has, for which he was awarded. Seryozha once opened the box where the order lay, and immediately heard a shout: "Do not touch! Put it in its place! "And if the father told his son how expensive this award is to him, what respect the people of work surround in our country, the boy probably would not have dreamed of letting the order in exchange.

I have often visited meetings of veterans of war and labor with schoolchildren. I saw with what respect and interest their children met. Famous people are invited to school, but for some reason there are no parents of students among them, although they also deserve every respect. At pioneer gatherings, children usually operate with book examples. Strangely enough, they do not talk about the parental labor feat. But the example of a loved one's life impresses much more. All that parents value, believe in, give strength, they must pass on to their sons and daughters.

A. Vakhnin, Syktyvkar Komi ASSR