Soviet cartoons that will help wean a child from laziness

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Many parents of children of preschool and primary school age are faced with the problem that the child does not want to work, make efforts to achieve a result - does not want to clean up the bed, put things in place, dress / undress, do homework, finish something started - for example, finish up a plasticine figure or work out a dance movement.

Very often, children refuse to work if they do not like what they are doing, or they cannot do it. And it can be quite difficult to explain their position in words - children not only do not want to hear what they do not like or what they do not understand.

What can help?

Cartoons. Using the example of lazy and hardworking cartoon characters, children can clearly and clearly show the need and importance of work … Such examples will help to form in children an understanding of the need for work and a negative attitude from laziness.

How do we bring up?

For the cartoon to be a more effective assistant in raising children, it is necessary:

- watch it with your child, - emotionally react to what is happening, - after watching the cartoon, discuss what you saw with the child, - be sure to draw a conclusion, - for a more effective discussion, you can also print color pictures from the cartoon with images of characters and important points and, after discussion, return to them when necessary - to remind the child of previously understood thoughts.

One of the most effective on the topic of laziness is the cartoon "Nehochukha".

"Nehochukha" (Creative Association Screen, 1986)

Plot:

The boy didn't want to do anything, just watch cartoons and play. He did not clean up his toys, did not help his grandmother around the house, and dreamed of getting to a country where they would not be forced to do what he didn’t want. His wish came true - he ended up in the country of Nechochuhiya, where there were various pleasures and serving robots. The boy quickly got tired of the constant, successive pleasures and kept repeating “I don’t want to”. To which the robot replied: “Well done. You will be like the great Nekhochukha”. When he saw the real great Nekhochukha - disgusting, unable to do anything, fat lazy person - and realized that it was he in the future, he did not want to be Nekhochukha.

With the help of this cartoon in children, you can form:

• negative attitude towards laziness,
• understanding that laziness and constant pleasures do not bring any result and quickly get bored,
• the idea that a lazy person and a loafer can do nothing, but only create problems for themselves and others, and then these problems themselves cannot be solved and need outside help.

How does it work?

The cartoon "Nekhochukha" arouses the genuine interest of children. The primary reaction to the image of the hero is laughter. Children find it funny because of the stupidity and absurdity of Nehochukha. It is especially funny for the children when the robot gave a pacifier to the boy, began to swing it in the crib and sing a lullaby (children shout: “Lyalka, Lyalka!”). Children ridicule, and this ridicule is value-based - children, laughing, express their negative attitude towards the hero. This means a negative attitude towards laziness as a quality of the hero.

Examples of discussion questions:

• What didn't the boy want to do?
• What should be done from this and why?
• What did the boy want to do?
• Why did the boy not like it in the country of Nekhochukhia, because there are so many entertainments there?
• Describe the Great Nothing. What is he? (Note, he's so fat that his pants don't even zip up! What else is he fat?) Why is he so fat?
• What other Great Nekhochukha? (emphasize that he is lazy, stupid, ugly, unkempt, shaggy, with huge folds of fat all over his body)
• As the Great Nekhochukha says? What is his voice? (not very pleasant voice, speaks in short phrases)
• What can he do? What did the robot do for him? (does not know how and does not want to do anything: eat, drink, move; the robot feeds him from a spoon, raises his hand).
• How old do you think the Great Naughty is? Is he an adult? It seems, yes. And what can he do? It turns out that he is an adult, but he behaves like a "lyalka"!
• How do you think other people will treat him?
• Let's take a look at the boy now. How does he look like Nehochukha? How is it different from Nekhochukha? Can a Boy Become a Bad Boy?
• What does he need to do in order not to become Dumb?
• What words are more important: “I want - I don’t want” or “it is necessary - it is not necessary”?

Conclusion: The boy didn't want to do anything. But when he saw that, living like this, he would become a disgusting Nekhochukha, he decided that he needed to act not only according to the principle “I want - I don’t want”, but also be guided by the words “it is necessary - it is not necessary”.

To consolidate the image of Nekhochukha, you can also use productive and creative activities based on the cartoon material: after discussing the cartoon, ask the children to draw or dazzle Nekhochukha, in the process emphasizing its ugly appearance and inability to do anything.

Subsequently, when situations arise when the child is lazy, he should be reminded of the hero Nehochukha. And this will affect the child more than logical explanations. You can also relate the heroes of other cartoons and books to this image, discuss whether this or that hero is unwilling.

Examples from my practice:

- Children are happy to answer questions and reason. Among the answers of the children were such comparisons: “I am not round as a ball. He can't even walk, but rolls."

- After watching the cartoon, we discussed what we saw with the children. Children correlate the image with themselves, emotionally say: “I am not Nekhochukha”, “I don’t want to be Nekhochukha”; as well as with peers: “But Alice is Nekhochukha with us”, “You behave like Nekhochukha” (mockery sounds in these phrases). Reflection is sometimes observed - this is how one five-year-old girl reasoned while painting Nekhochukha: “My Nekhochukha blushed all over, because he was ashamed. Sometimes I also say “I don’t want to”. Well, quite sometimes. But not always. Grandma says, "Let's go to dinner," I say, "Okay." Sometimes I don't want to sleep. After school we came home, went to bed, and I … I said: yes, yes, I want to, I want to! I want-want-want, want-want-want … ".

- Very rarely there were reverse situations, when a child, for some reason, correlated himself with the image of Nekhochukha and, in a fit of elation, shouted: “Yes, I am Nekhochukha! I’m Naughty!”. In my practice, there were only two such cases. Moreover, one of these two Nekhochukh - a five-year-old boy Vanya - told me a week after watching the cartoon: “I thought. I'm not Naughty. Bad nonsense."

- The image of Nekhochukha is remembered by children. After a few weeks and months, the children remember him, during the next lessons they call him more often than other heroes, find in new cartoons characters that are not similar to Nekhochuh, and these memories and comparisons are always emotionally colored.

Here are a few more Soviet cartoons on the theme of laziness that can be made out with a child:

"The Tale of Laziness" (1976, Soyuzmultfilm)

Plot:

At one of the market stalls, Seal was selling his Laziness - a small bag on which it was written: "Laziness". The seller asked for very little for his unusual product, and Penguin decided to make the purchase. Having got rid of Sloth, the cheerful and joyful Seal went to swim in the sea, and the Penguin with a new acquisition came to his home. As soon as he opened the bundle, Sloth immediately overpowered him. She could not even talk about any work, even the Penguin had no strength left to wear his boots, and the hero went to bed.

Several days passed, the fire in the cauldron went out, and the whole house was covered with icicles. Penguin jumped up, grabbed the unfortunate sack and decided to toss it to his neighbors - the Geese family. As soon as Sloth was with Mom and Dad Geese, their wings dropped, and they only had enough strength to play dominoes.

The next owner of the bad bag was the Sperm Whale, followed by the Crocodile, and then the Deer. And no one was able to immediately repulse the attacked Leni. Only after a while, when the heroes understood that it was wrong to do nothing, then it was possible to get rid of the glamor. Even the River Leni succumbed.

By the end of the story, all the heroes have safely got rid of the ill-fated pouch of Leni, and now she prowls the world in search of someone who would have the misfortune to give her shelter.

With the help of this cartoon in children, you can form:

• negative attitude towards laziness,
• understanding that laziness is dangerous and paralyzing life,
• understanding that laziness must be "chased away" by an effort of will.

Examples of discussion questions:

• What does Sloth look like in a cartoon? (like a dangerous magical creature like smoke that lives in a bag)
• Who has Laziness visited? (for a seal, penguin, geese, sperm whale, crocodile, river, deer)
• What happened to the heroes when they had Sloth? (the heroes became sleepy, lethargic, sad, slow, stopped doing business; the river stopped flowing and turned into a swamp)
• What did the heroes become when they got rid of Laziness? (cheerful, active, cheerful, fast)
• What happened in the end with Laziness, when all the animals drove her away? (she tried to enter houses, but everyone knew that Laziness was dangerous, and therefore they would not let her in)

Conclusion: Laziness is a dangerous creature that turns everyone cheerful and active - sleepy, lethargic and sad. Laziness should be kept away from oneself and "thrown away" with the help of efforts over oneself.

"Sportlandia" (1958, Soyuzmultfilm)

Plot:

Boy Mitya had to take the BGTO standards in the morning ("Be ready for work and defense"), but he turned off the alarm, plugged the beeping radio with a pillow and decided that he would go to take the standards later. His classmates shouted to him through the window that Mitya was letting the whole class down and would not receive the BSTO badge, but Mitya only covered himself more with the blanket.

Then the Sofa Cushion suddenly came to life, and then the Mattress on springs. They persuaded Mitya to go with them to the country of Lenivia, where they would easily give him the necessary badge. Above the gate of Laziness was a sign: Laziness. Chamber of Quitters”, and below:“Conference Room”. There were many soft armchairs, mattresses, pillows in the hall. Mitya was put to bed, where there were 4 mattresses and 3 pillows, they began to feed and lull him to heart. The alarm clock, who saw how the boy was taken away by the Pillow and the Mattress, decided to save Mitya and ran to the Sportlandia stadium for help. Sports equipment from Sportlandia volunteered to rescue the boy from trouble. The ball, dumbbells, rackets, hockey stick and others climbed onto a gymnastic horse and rode to Lazy.

The alarm clock was the first to sneak into the depths of the makeshift bedroom and woke Mitya up. He announced to Mitya that mattresses, chairs and pillows did not want him any reward, but were turning him into a lazy person for his own benefit, and that he should not sleep, but run. Mitya replied that he was tired of being in Sloth, but since he was well fed, now he can hardly move. Then the alarm clock gave Mitya a physical exercise, bringing him into good shape, after which it rang loudly.

A full-scale battle broke out between sports equipment and upholstered furniture, in which the boy took an active part. As a result, the mattress-chairman was amazed by Mitya, and the gymnastic horse took him to Sportlandia, the sign over the entrance to which was the badge "Be ready for work and defense."

Then Mitya woke up in his bed to the voice of the radio: "To completely destroy laziness, start your day with morning exercises!" It was all a dream, which nevertheless brought the boy to his senses. Mitya jumped out of bed, got dressed and ran to the stadium to catch up with the guys in order to pass the BGTO standards together.

With the help of this cartoon in children, you can form:

• negative attitude towards laziness,
• the importance of the prevalence of the metaphorical "Sportlandia" over "Laziness" in human life - that is, good spirits and body, athletic attitude and good physical fitness over inertia and laziness.

Note: The key role in the cartoon is played by the Soviet TRP program ("Ready for Labor and Defense"), which must be further explained to the child-viewer. “Ready for Labor and Defense” is a program of physical culture training in general educational, professional and sports organizations in the USSR, which is fundamental in a unified and state-supported system of patriotic education of youth. It existed from 1931 to 1991.

Examples of discussion questions:

• How does Mitya behave at the beginning of the cartoon? (Doesn't want to get out of bed in the morning and go with classmates to take physical education standards)
• Where do the Pillow and Mattress take Mitya? (to the land of Laziness)
• Why in Lazyvia do not at first believe that Mitya is a lazy person and a bum? (Because he read a lot of books, studied at school with "fours" and "fives" and played sports)
• Why, then, did Mitya end up in Lenivia? (Because I hadn’t read books for a month, I hadn’t gone to the stadium for a week and I wanted to get a badge about physical education just like that - without training)
• Who wants to save Mitya? (Alarm clock and residents of the country of Sportland - gymnastic "horse", ball, dumbbells, rackets, hockey stick and other sports equipment)
• What is the daily routine in Lazyvia? (All day is a dream)
• What are the inhabitants of Lenivia doing with Mitya? (put to bed and fed to make him fat)
• How did Mitya become in Lenivia? (thick and motionless)
• What helps Mitya lose weight? (exercise and running under the direction of the Alarm Clock)
• What does Mitya understand at the end of the story? (that does not want to stay in Laziness among the sleepy kingdom of Pillows and Mattresses, but wants to always be strong and athletic)

Conclusion: Laziness takes a person to the dangerous country "Laziness", where a person becomes fat, ugly, motionless. And there is another country - "Sportlandia" - for brave, strong and healthy people. It only depends on the person in which country he gets.

"A fire is burning in the yaranga" (1956, Soyuzmultfilm, based on the fairy tales of the peoples of the North)

Plot:

A mother with two children lived in a small yaranga far north. The son's name was Yatto, and his sister was Taeyune. The children were lazy and naughty and did not want to help their mother. When she asked the children to collect brushwood for the fire, they disobeyed her, saying that the firewood she had already collected would be enough. When the fire in the hearth went out, the evil old woman Blizzard burst into the yaranga, turned the mother of Yatto and Taeyune into a bird and carried her away. Brother and sister had to forget about their laziness and go in search of mom. They came a long way and overcame many dangers before they could find Blizzard's abode and save their mother.

With the help of this cartoon in children, you can form:

• a negative attitude towards laziness and an understanding that laziness can be dangerous (due to the fact that the children were lazy and did not help the mother to collect brushwood, and a disaster struck),
• the importance of obeying the elders and helping them (if the children obeyed their mother and helped her, the Blizzard would not have burst into the yaranga and carried away the mother),
• the importance of responsibility and correction of their mistakes (brother and sister took responsibility for what happened to their mother and went to save her),
• also the importance of love for their loved ones, the willingness to make sacrifices for them (thanks to the love of children for their mother and mother for the children, a long and difficult path was overcome; Taeyune sacrifices his braids to save the mother).

Examples of discussion questions:

• How do Taeyune and Yatto behave in the beginning? (Reluctantly wake up, refuse to go with mom to collect brushwood)
• What made Blizzard angry? (Because the spark from the fire burned through her cloak)
• What happened when the fire went out in the yaranga? (An angry Blizzard rushed to mother and children, turned mother into a bird and took her with him)
• What caused the fire to go out? (Due to the fact that Yatto and Taeyune were too lazy and did not help their mother collect firewood)
• What did the children do next? (Admitted their guilt and went in search of mom)
• Who did they meet along the way? (Sun / fawn / Sandman / bird singing mother's song / deer / Darkness Dark / Flares - brothers of the Sun)
• What did the children understand when they had difficulty finding their mother? (Those who love her will always help her, and the fire in their yaranga will never go out again)

Conclusion: Like the cartoons above, Fire Burns in Yaranga says that laziness is very dangerous. Indulging in her can be very costly. It was because of their laziness that Yatto and Taeyune almost lost their mother. It is necessary not to succumb to laziness and do all the necessary things, otherwise much more time-consuming and intractable problems may follow.

"Masha is no longer lazy" (1978, Soyuzmultfilm)

Plot:

The girl Masha did not want to help her grandmother, referring to the fact that she was "not the mistress of her hands and feet." Grandmother herself went to the bakery, and the machines arms and legs began to do wonders for this: they fed her with a mixture of mustard and horseradish, carried her out into the street, forced to paint the dachshund blue, take two apples from the old man, perform a series of fantastic acrobatic stunts, jump on the bus … The "victims" - a boy with a dachshund and a grandfather with apples - intercept grandmother at the bakery and tell what happened.

In the meantime, twilight deepened, the bus brought Masha into the forest. The perplexed driver tries to stop the girl running into the thicket, but her feet carry her further and further. Finally, the exhausted girl falls in the clearing and confidently pronounces her wish: "I want to become the mistress of my hands and feet again." A falling star in the sky fulfills her wish.

Two lights are approaching the happy Masha, she suspects that it is a wolf. In horror, the girl asks her hands and feet for help in "climbing the tallest tree", and deftly climbs up a steep trunk about ten meters. But the lights are the lanterns with which the “victims”, led by the grandmother, are looking for her. Masha also deftly descends. Embracing her grandmother, the touched Masha declares that she is "no longer a lazy person."

With the help of this cartoon in children, you can form:

• also a negative vision of laziness, the understanding that it deprives a person of power over himself (Masha's legs and arms stop obeying her when she begins to be lazy),
• understanding that a person should be the master of himself and his actions.

Examples of discussion questions:

• What does Grandma ask Masha to do? (go to the bakery and wash the cups)
• What does Masha answer? (deceives the grandmother that her legs and arms live by themselves and do not want to do what her grandmother asks her to do)
• What's going on with Masha? (her legs and arms really stop obeying her and begin to live on their own)
• When do Masha's arms and legs begin to obey her? (When Masha finally says that she wants to be the mistress of her hands and feet and will no longer be lazy)

Conclusion: Laziness is a person's refusal to be the master of himself and to control himself, with his hands and feet, which, following the example of Masha, leads to problems and confusion. To drive away laziness, you need to tell yourself that you are in control of yourself - and, therefore, you can do all the necessary things.