Recently, the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic has spread rapidly around the world. In order to control the development of the epidemic, some countries have announced "blockade orders". Schools are closed, home office, and various commercial entertainment venues are not open. Many families have started a 7X24-hour collective "Squat at home" mode.

Data Map: The empty streets of New York. China News Agency reporter Liao Panshe

　　However, under this seemingly calm surface, a "parent-child battle" of Chinese families has already begun ...

Schools start far away

　　The child bothers parents

　　On April 11, local time, New York City Mayor Bai Sihao announced that New York City Public Schools will suspend classes until the end of the school year due to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. Although this creates more time for many parents to spend time with their children, many Chinese parents say that they have to cope with work at home and tutor their children to learn.

Data map: The school is closed, and children learn online at home. (Photo source: Chinanews.com)

　　In addition, young children do not understand what it means to avoid epidemic at home, and they are forced to "sullen" at home every day. They have a small temper and come, which also makes many Chinese parents "frustrated with baldness."

　　A Chinese mother in New York recently spit out “bitter water” to local Chinese media. Since the school where her two children attended suspended classes, she began an online teaching model, and the 24-hour home life with her children made the mother "miserable."

　　"My husband and I have to work at home, and we must always pay attention to the news of the company when we work, but at the same time, we must be optimistic about the children and arrange learning life for them." She said that sometimes video conferencing at work needs to be absolutely quiet, but the children will suddenly appear. The chaotic work rhythm makes her really irritable.

　　A Chinese parent in Canada also said that although the child can learn online at home, the teacher did not take the initiative to follow up the student ’s learning situation, and these responsibilities fell on the parents. However, parents also have to take care of work, and sometimes feel that "availability is lacking."

　　The parent expressed the hope that the school can arrange at least 45 minutes of interactive online teaching time in a day to restrict the child's learning and at the same time allow the child to have some interaction with his classmates.

　　In order to prevent their children ’s learning from falling behind during the epidemic, some parents of Chinese descent started the mode of teaching in the day and preparing lessons in the evening.

　　A Canadian Chinese mother said that because the online learning resources launched by the local government were not enough, she could only search for more learning resources herself. Teach your children to study during the day, and spend most of the time at night preparing the next day's classes to establish a complete learning plan for the children. After a series of operations, the mother said: "It's really hard."

　　Many Chinese parents said that because the children at home were young, they were “crazy” outside. This sudden home instruction prevented the children from “removing their home”. It has become commonplace during the epidemic to trick the group of "little beasts" into playing tricks.

　Two generations have different attitudes towards the epidemic

　　Parents bitterly persuaded against persecution

　　Recently, the Japanese government announced that many cities have entered a "state of emergency", but it only called on everyone to stay at home to prevent epidemics, and closed nightclubs, department stores and other crowded places, and did not completely restrict travel. This worryes the local Chinese parents: the government has no hard requirements, and many children do not "see" the epidemic.

Information Figure: On the evening of April 16, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially announced that he would extend the scope of application of the "Declaration of Emergency" to the entire territory of Japan, and will last until May 6. (Photo source: Chinanews.com)

　　Gao Ying, a Chinese parent living in Tokyo, said that he has two children in his family. Because the education of the two generations is different, the views on the epidemic are quite different.

　　Gao Ying said that after the outbreak, the two children in the family will still go out to party. Every time parents remind them to pay attention to preventing the outbreak, the children will refute: "Young people are not easily infected! Even if they are infected, they will recover quickly. "" Although the children began to put on masks under constant persuasion, their views on the epidemic remained unchanged ...

Information figure: Japanese people wear masks to travel. (Photo source: Chinanews.com)

　　Shimizu, another mother living in Tokyo, has the same troubles. According to Shimizu, she and her husband both have basic diseases. After the outbreak, they were very worried that they would be infected, so they stipulated that the whole family should not go out. But his son didn't care about it at all. Just two days ago, he ran out of the house without his parents, met his friends, and didn't wear a mask!

　　Shimizu said: "We spend every day in anxiety, and really hope that the government can" close the city "as soon as possible! In order to prevent it, we have written the bank password in the drawer."

　　Chen Si, who lives in Chiba, said that he told his children to wear masks when they went out, but they never listened. They also said: "Masks are for people who already have a cold. Healthy people don't need them at all! "

　Chinese educators relieve parents ’worries:

　　It is important to pay attention to emotional management

　　In the face of the parent-child relationship problems that occurred in various families during the epidemic, many Chinese educators have recruited one after another to solve problems for parents.

　　Some Chinese educators and psychological counselors said that parents play a leading role in their children's home to avoid epidemics. When faced with children, they must first calm down and slow down their tone. Do not continue to quarrel with their children on the same topic.

　　Li Feijun, a Chinese-based psychological counselor, said that under the epidemic, many Chinese parents were at a loss for a while because of major changes in work and life. However, in the face of children, parents must not be confused, otherwise it will also have a negative impact on children, and they should pay more attention to controlling emotions.

　　Former New York Children ’s Welfare Bureau Chinese-licensed social worker Luo Shuhua said that when young children are upset because they ca n’t go out, parents should be gentle and explain, and do n’t get angry because of the child ’s small emotions.

　　She also reminded parents not to relax because of school suspension. For example, young children who do not yet know how to operate computers must have parents to help them take classes remotely. "Parents can also learn together with their children." They can also improve parent-child relationships.

　　Faced with the different attitudes of the two generations in responding to the epidemic, many Chinese parents have also summed up the experience: try to be reasonable and act with emotion instead of tit-for-tat; when the child is at home, turn on the TV to play the epidemic-related Programs to create an atmosphere; talk freely about the plans after the outbreak, such as organizing family trips ...

　　Source: US "World Daily", Canada "Sing Tao Daily", Japan "Chinese Guide"