Born in Seoul, in her second year of English at Ewha Womans University, she went to the U.S. as an exchange student on a full scholarship to study sociology at Dixon University, and then went on to graduate school at Boston University, where she earned a Ph.D. in sociology and a Ph.D. in anthropology, and has studied Chinese works such as Dedicated Parents Raise Big People. 3 Ways Chief Moms – Give Your Kids Good Bodies, Good Brains, and Good Role Models! Tip 1: A good body is the “engine” of success Jeon Hye-sung was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1921. When she was a sophomore in the English Department of Ewha Womans University in South Korea, she went to the U.S. as an exchange student to study sociology at Dixon University, and later earned two doctorates in sociology and anthropology from Boston University. Her husband, Ko Kwang-rim, is the Korean Ambassador to the United States, and they have raised six children. Jeon Hye-sung’s systematic education of her children all began at the age of three. Unusually, Jeon Hye-sung began by exercising her children’s bodies. The eldest son, Jingzhu, was born weak, and sometimes went to the doctor more than ten times a month. Exhausted from holding her sick baby, Quan Huixing was determined to make her child strong. Starting in the fall, the whole Huixing let the child touch cool water once a day, first with cool water to wash their hands, and then wash their arms. After insisting for a month, the child gradually adapted, began to use cold water to wash feet and legs. The child’s limbs adapted to the cold water, the next step is ready to take a cold shower. For the first time, Quan Huixing set the water temperature at 25 ℃, the child did not feel much discomfort. The next day, she lowered the water temperature by 1 ℃, the third day, and then lowered 1 ℃. A month later, the child could already tolerate the 0 ℃ cold water bath. Since then, Xiao Jingzhu never had a fever again. In this way, Quan Huixing did what he did, and as a result, the six children almost never got sick. Quan Huixing checked the history of great people, found a very obvious characteristic: these extraordinary great people, are very strong people. Without a strong body, even if you have a lot of knowledge, you can not become a big man. For this reason, Quan Huixing formulated a series of “devil’s training” program, so that the children adhere to it every day. At that time, across the house is the famous Niels Lake. Every morning at dawn, Quan Huixing woke up the children from their sleep. Against the cold wind, the children began to run 3000 meters once a day. In addition, Jeon Hye-sung asked her children to play various sports: rock climbing, squash, taekwondo, and even weightlifting. Kyung-shin, Jeon’s oldest daughter and a professor in the chemistry department at Korea Central University, says, “In college, I wasn’t very smart compared to my classmates, but my strong body enabled me to stay in the lab for two days and two nights without resting, and that’s why my grades were among the highest. The intensive physical training that my mother gave us was like installing a super-horsepower engine in our bodies, enabling us to work for a long time without getting tired. Secret #2: A good brain needs this kind of sharpening Because of his love for the way children are raised, in 1972, Jeon Hye-sung established the Dongam Cultural Research Institute in the U.S. to engage in research on culture and human development, serving as its own chairman. As a result of the research, Jeon came to a thought-provoking conclusion: people with superior IQs are often unsuccessful, while famous people, whose IQs are not necessarily higher than those of ordinary people, have achieved great success through hard work. According to Quan Huixing, the reason for this is that successful people are often able to concentrate mentally for a long period of time, thus maximizing their intelligence. In order to exercise her children’s ability to concentrate mentally, Jeon Hye-sung thought of a number of ways, but none of them worked well. One day, she went to Bali on vacation and found two girls practicing Indian yoga on a reef by the coast. They sat on their knees, facing the sea, and a black board was placed in front of them. Quan Huixing asked in wonder, “What is this black board for?” The two girls told her that the blackboard was to keep their eyes firmly fixed on it so as to enter into silence. Jeon Hye-sung asked, “Why is it black?” The girls’ answer was philosophical: “Black is a kind of emptiness, and when you look at it, you can reach the depths of emptiness.” Quan Huixing came to a realization. Back home, she and her husband, Gao Guanglin, made a “blackboard” together. The “blackboard” covers an area of about 6 square meters, on which a layer of pure black plastic film is attached, like a black curtain. There is a small blue flash in the center, every certain time, the flash will flash. Half an hour before bedtime every night, the training session begins. Quan Huixing asked the children to stop thinking while staring at the “blackboard”. Sometimes the children do not realize that the spirit of the “slipped”. At that moment, the light in the center of the “blackboard” flashes, and a voice reminds: “Please don’t think about anything, please don’t think about anything ……” After half a year of training, most of the children can maintain the “blackboard” for more than ten minutes. After six months of training, most of the children were able to maintain a state of “zero thinking” for more than ten minutes. This powerful ability to enter the quiet, improve the control of the brain’s thinking activities, this ability, so that the whole Huixing children can be highly concentrated in the study, thus greatly improving the learning efficiency, but also greatly improve the ability to analyze the ability and creativity, for their success in the future, laying a solid foundation. Tip 3: good example for children to strive to be a big man Quan Huixing found in the survey, many parents looking forward to their children, will use some examples to tell their children to be a small man life will be how how not easy, how life will be how painful, as a way to motivate their children to get ahead. Quan Huixing is very much against this practice. Her approach is: respect the little people and strive to be the big people. Quan Huixing bought a copy of the biography of Abraham Lincoln for the children to read. Then the whole family met to discuss the reading. Lincoln’s father wanted to be a farmer, so he became a good farmer. Lincoln wanted to be a great politician, so, he became a great president. Wishes that defined the gap between the lives of this father and son. She asked, “Do you wish to be Lincoln? Or be Lincoln’s father?” The children, of course, wanted to be Lincoln, but, again, felt unable to do it. Quan Huixing said, “There are no more presidential positions in the U.S. for everyone to be president, but there are enough congressional positions to make many young people’s dreams come true. In other professions as well, there are enough positions waiting for successful people.” Quan Huixing asks her children to learn about big people and strive to be big, but she doesn’t ask them to be any one type of big person. She believes that on the stage of life, children are the protagonists in their own repertoire, and only they themselves best understand what to do and what they are capable of doing. Parents only play a guiding role, not to prescribe a certain life track for their children. Therefore, her six children, when they grew up, all chose different directions of specialization according to their own interests and hobbies. But no matter what direction they chose, since they were physically, mentally, and intellectually equipped with sufficient foundations for success, it was natural for them to succeed in the end. Looking back on the journey of raising six children, Quan Huixing believes that each child is a “special” individual with his or her own unique elements. The rigid demands from parents and society can only make them feel uncomfortable, or limit their free development, or misjudge their potential, and the result will be the opposite of what they want. The most important thing parents need to do is to give their children a strong body, a great ability to learn and a strong desire to be great. With these three things, a child with average talent can become a success.