"Redefining elementary learning consulting with overwhelming experience and scale."
Top Student in the School, Current Medical Student: What He 'Absolutely' Wants to Say to Parents of Elementary School Students

Practical parenting lessons by author Lim Min-chan, ranked No. 1 in elementary, middle, and high school learning on Naver Expert.

Author Lim Min-chan, who received the love of countless students and parents after graduating from a local high school and entering Chung-Ang University Medical School, has returned with "Secret Elementary School Tutoring for Medical Students."
In this age of overabundance of study methods, there are overflowing "exaggerated study roadmaps" that burden children and create anxiety in parents.
This book provides unexpected educational insights to parents striving to raise their children as self-directed learners.
You can learn about various aspects of learning, such as study emotions, study methods, parental roles, and study trends, through a single book. In particular, it is written from the 'student's perspective' rather than a third party's, so you can learn 'more specific and more realistic' study know-how from six years of elementary school.

From an educational consultant who led over 900 middle and high school students to an elementary education expert!

It is common for medical students to tutor middle and high school students.
However, based on his experience of directly consulting over 900 middle and high school students, the author has entered the elementary school field, which 'others do not do', and is actively working.
Because we know better than anyone how much influence the ‘elementary school period’ has on a child’s emotions and study habits.
While there are certainly things to learn from advice like, "I taught a certain student this way and he ended up going to Seoul National University," or "I raised my child this way and he ended up going to medical school," it's true that there are more times when they fail to represent the feelings of the student who actually has to study.
This is one of the biggest reasons why the author wrote this book.
The author's sense of mission regarding elementary education will serve as a solid guide for parents in this book.

When I consult with parents of elementary school students, I often see them worrying about making poor academic choices.
You don't have to worry too much anymore.
It's okay to make mistakes.
Especially, you don't have to worry too much about whether it's okay to let your child do this.
If you make your child do something and he or she doesn't adapt well, you can stop him or her. If your child likes it and it suits him or her well, you can give him or her more opportunities.
This means that even if you make mistakes during the six years of elementary school, you can easily make up for it during the three years of middle school.
Above all, there are no 'useless' experiences during elementary school.
Based on the wrong choices or mistakes made in elementary education, you can make the right decisions that suit your child's personality without much trial and error in the more important middle and high school years.
Rather than regretting it by saying, "I should have tried this more in second grade," without even trying it, it is better to let them experience it even if they make mistakes.
--- p.20

Since high school students don't have the time to study for college entrance exams separately, it's a good idea for parents to study for their busy children.
When children become seniors in high school, both their parents and children tend to become anxious.
From the time your child becomes a high school freshman, if there is an entrance exam information session around you, go with an open mind and take a look at the current entrance exam atmosphere.
If there are videos related to college entrance exams on educational YouTube channels, it's a good idea to carefully review them and check the overall situation.
When your child becomes a senior in high school, you can make this 'participation' more 'serious'.
--- p.46

What we need to be particularly careful about here is ‘misconception.’
If we teach elementary school content lightly because it is easy, and then misconceptions creep in, the problem will become bigger.
That misconception is so ingrained in your head that it takes twice or three times as much time to re-instill the correct concept.
As such, it is not easy for parents to take on the role of teachers.
Not only can it be difficult for children to perceive their parents as "teachers," it can also exacerbate confusion about the roles.
To properly fulfill the role of a teacher, parents must be able to point out and sometimes even get angry when their child is not studying properly, but parents cannot help but feel weak.
The 'helpless heart of parents' that if they fight with their children because of studying, the child's emotional state of studying will be hurt is at work.
--- p.51

One more piece of advice for studying history: I would advise against having your child study Korean history and world history in parallel.
World history is a subject that covers a vast amount of material, and if you have a solid perspective on history, especially through studying Korean history, you will be able to move on to studying world history more easily.
However, if you are in a hurry and study both Korean love and world history, you may not be able to focus on one of the two and end up being confused about both.
So, even if you read educational comics, don't just read world history. I hope you first read Korean history educational comics and then read world history educational comics.
As for the problem solving, I hope that after solving the Korean history problem book and becoming somewhat accustomed to it, you can move on to the world history problem book.
--- p.193

Please guide them to decide on a major at least before they enter high school.
The departments are broadly divided into five departments: humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, arts and physical education, and education. If you discuss this with your child and decide on the most appropriate department, you will be able to utilize the high school credit system more wisely.
Even if your child doesn't have a dream yet, set a 'virtual goal' for them in elementary school.
Of course, you can study without a dream, but if you have a dream, you can set study goals more easily.
Elementary school children have many interests and do not know much about careers, so it is not easy for them to make decisions on their own.
It is also the parent's role to help the child discover areas of interest and set up careers related to those areas as 'virtual future hopes'.
--- p.223

Since the planner is for middle and high school exam study, parents of elementary school students may not realize its importance.
The funny thing is, I've counseled over 900 middle and high school students and given them countless tips on planners, but I can only count on one hand the number of students who have used a planner consistently for more than a month.
What does this mean? Middle and high school students have so many new things to learn that it's difficult to develop a new habit like "planning."
However, if the habit of using a planner has been formed since elementary school, the story is a little different.
In elementary school, you need to clearly understand the purpose of the planner, and it is not for elementary unit assessments.
Elementary unit tests are relatively easy to understand, so you can do them without a planner.
Before graduating from elementary school, you just need to instill in your child three things: 'A planner is something you use every day, it only takes a little bit of time to use, and if you use it, you can do what you need to do without forgetting.'
If that happens, your child will be able to use a planner on his or her own starting in middle school.
--- p.244

Starting in fourth grade, my mom stopped reading to me directly during bedtime.
Now, when I read a book, my mom brings her own book to read, and we each have time to read.
Thirty minutes before bed, after finishing all the studying I had to do for the day, my mom, my brother, and I gathered in the living room and read books freely during that quiet time.
The feeling and atmosphere of that time, even the sound of turning the pages, still remain in me.
It was a truly warm memory.
Even if my mom didn't read the book to me directly, just being in the same space and doing the same thing gave me a great sense of security.
When I became a middle school student, every night (usually during vacations), my mom, my older brother, and I would sit around and read “All About Modern Prose.”
We also took the time to read out loud the main parts of various literary works, part by part, and summarize the characteristics of each work.
--- p.285

In fact, there are many children in the upper grades of elementary school who have these concerns.
The bigger problem is that even when I explain this issue to my parents, they don't take it very seriously.
What children want is nothing else.
Just don't use nicknames outside.
And giving them the opportunity to do what they can do themselves.
That's all.
At this time, from the parents' perspective, the child may feel cute.
You might think I'm being overly sensitive over something trivial.
If you use a nickname that you used at home, it will come out naturally when you go out, and if the bag looks heavy and full, you can help them carry it as a parent.
But as they reach upper elementary school and enter puberty, children no longer feel like children.
I don't like showing it like that either.
So, you become more conscious of other people's gaze.
When I was in upper elementary school, I used to get annoyed when my mom called me by my nickname outside.
I remember feeling frustrated when I told my mom this story and she just laughed it off.

--- p.319