How to alleviate the "panic" of parents by "returning" children early ——Focus on winter vacation life under epidemic prevention and control
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 19th, title: How to relieve parents' "panic" when children are "returned" in advance?
——Focus on winter vacation life under epidemic prevention and control
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Wanwei, Yang Siqi, Wang Ying, Zhao Hongyu
Affected by the sporadic spread of the winter epidemic, many elementary and middle school students in many parts of my country have their winter vacation early.
"The school does not open, the nanny is back home, and the elderly dare not run across the province..." Some families panicked in the face of the early holiday.
Reporters in Beijing, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Liaoning and other places found that after-school tutoring classes and "small dining tables" in some places were closed in accordance with the epidemic prevention and control requirements, putting a lot of pressure on dual-income families. The support of schools and communities has helped solve the problems of nursing care. The healthy growth of children is even more important.
Relying on the elderly to support the family with 8 cameras to take care of the "home baby"
Starting this week, all elementary school students in Beijing will be on vacation. Not long ago, the family of a small dining table in Shunyi had an epidemic, which made people more worried about the safety of the small dining table.
In Heilongjiang, Liaoning and other places, kindergartens, "small dining tables", and tutorial classes are all closed.
Due to the inconvenience of the epidemic, some families brought in old people from other places, and their children had to stay at home alone.
Ms. Wu, who lives in Jingxiu District, Baoding, Hebei, has two children aged 10 and 4 and a half years old.
"Suddenly on holiday, the children are all going home. At this time, we are very dependent on the elderly and worry that the elderly are too tired. Therefore, we enrolled a lot of online classes for the children to help them relieve the pressure of the elderly.
Both Wang Anmin and his wife work in Beijing in Yixian County, Hebei. The children in the fourth grade of elementary school stay in the local area to be looked after by the elderly after the holiday.
"The child is very home. Every day at home, besides doing homework, he is playing with his mobile phone. Life is relatively monotonous. We hope to go back to accompany him earlier." He said.
Ms. Du, a parent in Harbin, Heilongjiang, believes in the children’s ability to take care of themselves: "My spouse and I have to work, and the elderly are all out of town. In the winter and summer vacations, I sent my children to the nursery classes and can take care of the meals at noon. I have grown up a little and can take care of myself at home. We take care of it remotely through telephone, internet, etc."
Shenyang, Liaoning, 56-year-old Tian Ping is a community worker.
After the local epidemic recurred, not only her daughter and son-in-law were very busy, but she herself was also very busy.
After school holidays, the 8-year-old grandson is at home alone.
"Although the child is very sensible, we still have 8 cameras installed at home so that we can monitor the child's situation at any time." She said.
Online home visits cold and warm communities to help each other to resist pressure
The winter vacation for elementary and middle schools in some areas is one month to two weeks earlier than originally planned.
In response to possible problems in students' home life, the education department has made a lot of preparations before the holiday.
While “returning” the students, all teachers are required to arrive at their posts to keep abreast of the students’ situation in a timely manner through winter vacation homework and online home visits.
——Many kinds of homework in winter vacation.
Hou Chaofa, director of the Compulsory Education Division of the Handan Education Bureau, said that with the sudden tension of the epidemic situation in Hebei, the primary and secondary schools in Handan were closed nearly 20 days earlier than originally planned.
While accelerating the teaching progress, the school requires teachers to consolidate and improve the content they have learned through reasonable arrangements for winter vacation homework.
"The education department cooperated with the TV station to record a special program of'Winter Vacation Life'." Yuan Xiuzhong, director of the Educational Science Institute of the Handan City Education Bureau, said that during the winter vacation, it was broadcast once a day, and the content included reading classics, traditional culture, housework, etc. There is also 20 minutes of broadcast time.
——Online home visit Lengwen.
Beijing requires schools to understand the home situation of each student through "online home visits".
According to Zhao Xuran, a teacher of the High School Affiliated to Beijing University of Technology, the content of home visits to students includes asking about the physical and mental conditions of the students and their families, home arrangements, and difficulties and confusion.
Individual guidance will be provided for problems such as the tense parent-child relationship and poor self-discipline of the child reported by parents.
Ma Tengfei, the class teacher of the fourth grade of Heping Primary School in Congtai District, Handan City, said: "We will pay special attention to children under the care of the elderly, including homework and Q&A. If students encounter learning problems, they can use WeChat groups, Dingding groups, etc. Ask the teachers in each subject directly."
——Community help each other out.
Mu Yan, assistant director of the cultural community of Minqiang Street, Daowai District, Harbin, said that there are people in the community WeChat group communicating with each other and hosting children.
Some parents put their children in the community library when they go to work, and are under the temporary care of community staff.
"Teachers have reserved personalized vacation assignments to let children'weight loss'. We meet with neighbors' children to exercise." A parent said that the pressure of taking care of children while continuing to work is not small, and mutual help and communication between neighbors is very helpful.
Do not blindly explore the refined management of online classes
The interviewed industry insiders believe that, in the context of normalization of epidemic prevention, on the one hand, higher requirements are placed on parents’ child-rearing ability, and on the other hand, they also call for improving the level of social fine management, through appropriate opening of nursery institutions and building community mutual assistance platforms Give family support in other ways.
"You can start independent learning in the third grade of elementary school and you don’t need to blindly report online classes, so that the vacation becomes a semester." He Guoqing, an outstanding Chinese teacher in the country and a school in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone School attached to the National People’s University, believes that the vacation is for students to consolidate knowledge and expand With good opportunities for reading and physical exercise, parents can use the opportunity of home study to promote the improvement of humanistic literacy and comprehensive ability.
Zhang Xiaoning, a teacher at a primary school in Shenyang, proposed that children should avoid problems such as disorder of life and rest and safety hazards at home alone.
She suggested that a flexible working system can be implemented in areas with early holidays, especially for the police, doctors, community workers and other personnel with heavy tasks during the epidemic, so as to ensure the normal working status of employees and guarantee the future. The rights of adults.
Zhi Ruxin, director of the Women's Federation of Jingxiu District, Baoding City, suggested that under the premise of implementing epidemic prevention and control measures, relevant departments can limit the flow of households and open some sports venues to relieve the physical and mental stress of women and children.
In addition, private kindergartens, nursery schools and other institutions that meet certain epidemic prevention requirements can also limit current flow.
Interviewees like Zhang Yuli, director of the Education Group of Teachers’ Kindergarten in Tiexi District, Shenyang, and other interviewees suggested to make full use of community parents’ schools to build a mutual-aid and spontaneous “group heating” platform to form social synergy.
By recruiting volunteers and other methods, explore the establishment of a multi-family mutual aid organization for low-age children in the same community to take care of children in the jurisdiction.