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Four behaviors that damage the parent-child relationship

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Source: Parenting Specialist, Ken Sir,

Some mothers often ask me, “How should I show my love for my children?” Will it be spoiled by expressing too much? I think that Chinese people are more introverted and are often afraid to express their love. Especially when you want to express your concern for him but end up with a different attitude.

I once saw a mother and her little child lost in Shatin and then reunited. How did the mother behave after the reunion? She grabbed him by the hand and hit him while saying, “I just couldn’t see you; do you know how scared I was?” I am very worried about you. What can I do if I can’t see you?

In fact, everyone knows that his mother loves him, but the child cannot feel it. I often share an example of how to express love in my lectures. When I was a child, my father ordered a drink, and since he didn’t have much money at the time, he asked the waiter for an extra cup after ordering a hot drink. He kept pouring the drinks around in front of me, trying to get the drinks cold as soon as possible so that the kids wouldn’t burn their mouths when they drank them and they could drink them faster, but I found that if the kids asked their parents or I asked many of the student’s parents, they would all answer, “This will get cold faster.”

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When responding to children, parents should express their deepest feelings, such as “Because I love you, how would I do this thing if I didn’t love you?” Do I do it for the one next to me? In fact, there are many things we can do in life to express love, but there is one thing we must remember if we are to avoid causing spoiled, you must remember the following two points.

The first point is that if a child can do something, he should be allowed to do it; you should not fight to make him do it. The second point is that when a child makes a mistake, we should correct him. In the process of correction, we should be gentle and firm, and serious when we need to be serious. However, remind the child that he or she should be told the solution, not just no or wrong. If so, the child will not improve.

父母要如何表達對小朋友的愛?

家長錦囊

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資料來源:親職教育專家Ken Sir

有些媽媽會經常問我:「我應該怎樣表達我對小朋友的愛?會否因為我表達得太多而造成溺愛?」,我覺得其實中國人較為內斂,對愛的表現,很多時候都不敢說出來。尤其是你本來想表達你很緊張他,但就變成另一種態度。

有次我在沙田見到一個媽媽和她的小朋友走失了,然後再重聚,重聚後媽媽的表現是怎樣呢?就是捉著他的手打他  ,一邊打一邊説:「我剛剛見不到你,你知不知道我很害怕。我很擔心你,見不到你怎麽辦呀?」

其實大家都知道媽媽是愛他的,但小朋友就感受不到。我經常在講座分享一個例子去表達愛,就是在我小時候爸爸叫了一杯飲料,因為當時錢不多,當叫完一杯熱飲後就問侍應多拿一個杯子。在我面前不停把飲料倒來倒去,想盡快把飲料弄涼,讓小朋友喝的時候不會燙傷嘴巴,而且可以快點喝得到,但我發現如果當小朋友問父母的時候或我問過很多學生的父母,他們都是會答:「這樣會快點變涼。」

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家長在回應小朋友時應該表達最深的層次,就是因為我愛你,我不愛你我怎麽會做這事情呢?難道我為旁邊那個做?為旁邊的小朋友做嗎?所以其實我們在生活上很多事情可以表達愛,但有一種事一定要記住,如果你害怕造成溺愛,一定要切記以下兩點。

第一點小朋友可以做到的事,應該要讓他做,你不應該爭著做。第二點就是小朋友犯錯,我們要指正他。在指正的過程中,盡量用到溫柔而堅定,需要嚴肅的時候要嚴肅。但要提醒小朋友記著要説上解決方法,而不是只說NO,只說不對。這樣的話,小朋友是不會進步的。

Nurturing children’s interest in reading

Parenting Tips

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Written by : New Horizons Development Centre
Registered Educational Psychologist Pang Chi Wah

A hundred years ago, illiteracy was a normal thing. But since education became widespread decades ago, it is now necessary to go to school to receive an education. Learning is not only through the direct transmission of knowledge by teachers through language, students also need to read textbooks by themselves. When doing homework or taking exams, students are tested on their concentration and speed when reading.

More than 30 years ago, the basic qualification for firefighters was graduation from the sixth grade, but today, even college graduates may not be able to get into firefighting. Modern fires do not only require firefighters to be physically fit and able to put out fires with water, but some fires are very complex and require special methods and chemicals to put out.

Reading skills are needed in all walks of life
Whether they are blue-collar or white-collar workers, they need to handle documents and files, read other people’s reports or instructions, and write their own reports. So the need to read and handle paperwork is everywhere. In the past, illiterate people could withdraw money from banks, but with modern ATMs, not only can we withdraw money, but we can also pay different fees, but our concentration and speed in reading is very much tested.

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When we are adults, we have to sign many contracts, and there are many clauses in the contract, and the font size is small but quantity is large, it is also a big test of reading. Modern people often have to search for information on the Internet, which also requires the ability to read, that is, the ability to visually search for symbolic words and speed.

Nurturing children’s interest in reading
Cultivate children’s interest in reading and develop good habits. Although reading books is fine, reading newspapers is a good habit that everyone must develop, whether they are civilians or presidents and professors, they need to read newspapers regularly because this is the only way to keep up with the information of the society, to understand the changes around the world, and to master the liberal thinking.

Although there is now a very convenient TV news, as if they do not need to read, listening to TV news seems more convenient. But in fact, in addition to reading newspapers to learn the news and current events, more continuous training of the ability to deal with words and reading newspapers can be carried out at anytime and anywhere, newspapers can be said to be the textbook of the Society in general. This is everyone “to do old, learn until old,” the rule of thumb.

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培養孩子的閱讀興趣

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撰文:新領域潛能發展中心 註冊教育心理學家彭智華

在百多年前,文盲是很正常的事。但自從數十年前教育開始普及,時至今日,到學校接受教育是必須的,學習除了通過教師以語言直接傳授知識外,學生還需要自己閱讀教科書,在做功課或考試時,更考驗學生閱讀時的專注力及速度。

三十年多前,投考消防員的基本資格是小學六年級畢業便可,而今時今日,大學畢業生也未必能考到消防員。現代的火災已不單是要求消防員體能好,簡單用水便可灌救熄滅,因為有些火警的起因很複雜,要用特別的方法及化學物才可撲滅。

各行各業都需要閱讀能力

不論是藍領或是白領,都需要處理文件檔案,需要閱讀別人的報告或說明書,更需要自己書寫報告,所以閱讀及處理文書的需要可說是無處不在。以前文盲可以到銀行提款,但現代的自動提款機,我們不單可以提款,還可以繳交不同的費用,但就非常考驗我們閱讀的專注力及速度。

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當我們成年後有很多簽訂合約的時候,而且合約有很多條文,字體又小數量又多,也是閱讀的一大考驗。現代人經常要在網上搜尋資料,也需要閱讀的能力,就是視覺搜尋符號文字的能力及速度。

培養子女的閱讀興趣

培養子女的閱讀興趣,並培養成為良好的習慣。雖然閱讀圖書也可以,但閱讀報紙是每個人必須養成的良好習慣,不論是平民百姓,還是總統教授,都需要定時閱讀報紙,因為只有這個方法才可以保持與社會的資訊同步,了解世界各地的變動,掌握通識思維。

雖然現時有很方便的電視新聞,好像不需要自己閱讀,聽電視新聞似乎更方便。但實際上閱讀報紙除了得知新聞時事,更能不斷鍛鍊處理文字的能力,而且閱讀報紙可以隨時隨地進行,報紙可說是社會大學的教科書,是每個人「做到老,學到老」的不二法則。