First, the differences between parents' ideas. Many people have the idea that "rural children should be the masters early". Actually, it is not. When I saw rural children on holiday, I played with my mobile phone at home. There used to be such a rural child who played games and blew air conditioners at home in the summer when he graduated from the third grade. One of my colleagues' children was already distributing leaflets to others. The reason is parents' educational concept. Rural parents feel that they owe their children material conditions, and of course they will not let their children go out to eat that bitter.
Second, the self-care ability of rural children is not high. In rural areas, relatives are basically outside the village. Even if parents are not at home occasionally, grandparents are basically at home. Even if you are not at home, there are many people who can entrust you when you go out, but in the city, it is different. People like me who surround the city from the countryside generally have to go to work, and children have to learn to stay at home by themselves from an early age. I know a child, in the third grade of primary school, who has to cook by himself at noon.
Third, social education resources are relatively backward. Schools in rural areas are relatively backward in both hardware conditions and teacher resources. Due to the birth rate in previous years, several villages are running schools together at present. Many schools are not equipped with music, art, physical education and other teachers, and even some schools only take math and Chinese. This city is different. Children in the city can enjoy pre-school lottery to enter public kindergartens, and the educational environment in primary schools is much better. The school will set up some interest classes such as electronic DIY, fine arts and folk music, which are far beyond the reach of rural schools.
Fourth, the difference of parents' investment in education. I think this is probably the biggest difference between rural children and urban children. Parents in rural areas either work outside or engage in production (farming or breeding) at home. They all know that reading can change their destiny, but their investment in children's education is much less than that of urban children. Imagine how they can put their hard-earned money into their children's interest classes, such as learning to write, learn to draw and learn the piano, and can't even finish telling stories and checking their homework, let alone anything else.
Fifth, the horizons are different. I was born in 1980s, and many people, like me, had never been out of the county before going to college. However, children in rural areas today are actually not much better than I was then. Judging from the rural children in my hometown, few parents take them to travel in winter and summer vacations, and their understanding of the mountains and rivers of the motherland stays on paper or on the screen. Children in the city, however, follow their parents around when they are very young. They not only see the world with their own eyes, but also have their own opinions, which have a far-reaching impact on a person's growth.