The School is honored to accept the “Hong Kong Volunteer Award” co-organized by the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau and the Agency for Volunteer Service.
The School received the “Caring School” Award after a rigorous review by the committee.
This is a joint volunteer effort of parents, teaching and administrative staff, and students of the School. Your selfless dedication is truly admirable.
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone for their love and contribution! ?
Source：Taiwan Professional organizing advisor, Yu Zhi Lin
One of the parents’ nightmares is working hard to pack up the toys every night, but the next morning they were scattered all over the floor again. Pack up your stuff. How can parents teach their children to pack up their toys?
We decide how big the storage box should be based on the child’s age, which is about 1 to 2 years old. To prevent children from putting toys in their mouths, toys at this time are usually larger, so we need a slightly larger storage box. When children are younger, our standards can be very low, mainly to let them know that they need to clean up after playing with toys, pack them up in the storage box, and put all the toys in it. At this age, we need to train them to be tidy.
By the time children are a little older, about 3 to 5 years old, they can already have a preliminary classification. Know that there are different types of toys. At that time, the storage box does not have to be so big, we can change a smaller storage box, according to the different types of toys a little classification. We adjust the rules of the game a little higher; you can paste some classification labels outside the box, with patterns, colors, or word cards, so that children can easily identify. For example, a car, with a car pattern or a word card “Car”, so that children can slowly learn to remember this classification.
When children go to elementary school, they will have their own ideas and know what to put away where, so our storage box can become smaller. Then we can store many small things for children, such as little girls’ ornaments, small beads, and accessories for Barbie dolls. We can also use such a small box to sort, because after such a long time of training, children will find it very natural to clean up, and parents will also feel very relaxed.
Source: Psychotherapist, Lee Wai Tong
Whenever something happens, children will use different excuses to shirk their responsibility toward others. Parents may then scold the child for this, but this may make the child avoid taking responsibility. Faced with this situation, what can parents do?
First of all, when parents ask children, “Why didn’t you finish the work?” or “Why don’t you understand?” Parents want their children to take responsibility. But at this time, the child will want to shirk the responsibility and give it to someone else, but at the end of the day, the parents actually want the child to take responsibility. You should know that responsibility starts with the child having the time to make decisions because having the time is called having a sense of autonomy. If children can have a sense of autonomy, they will be more likely to be responsible.
For example, if he does not know how to do his homework and is asked why he does not understand, he will say that the teacher did not teach him, the teacher did not teach him well, or that the other students were noisy. At that moment, if parents continue to say that he is not concentrating in class, they will only make the child throw the responsibility further away. So at this point, we need to know how to do better since we are facing difficulties and then work with the child to figure out how to do it.
The child will feel responsible for doing a good job, so naturally he will put the responsibility back on himself and let himself do it. And when children can do things on their own, they will be more willing to take responsibility. This is why I always say that the most important thing for parents is not to be accountable because accountability only teaches children to unload their responsibilities, while we can help our children take responsibility and accomplish things together. This is the most important lesson we often teach our children about responsibility.
Written by : New Horizons Development Centre
Registered Educational Psychologist Pang Chi Wah
Under the epidemic, many families have become accustomed to shopping online, which is convenient and fast and frees up more time for other tasks. Even in everyday purchases, there is often no need to pay cash directly, for example, when taking transportation or shopping at convenience stores, you only need to use your Octopus to complete the payment process without using any coins. When everyone is used to it, and children already know how to use this kind of electronic money, is there any problem? In fact, “convenience” can sometimes stifle the knowledge that can be gained in the learning process.
Just think about it, the use of credit cards by adults is also convenient for shopping, but it can be a big challenge to our financial management skills because we need to be very disciplined in order not to exceed our budgets or “spend money in the future”. A young man once confessed that when he was growing up, his family was richer, and when he saw his family paying for things after dinner or at the department store, all he had to do was sign for them; when he wanted to buy something, his family would also go along with his wishes and sign for it. But it was not until he started working that he realized that he still needed to pay for something other than his signature. Money is found to be limited. Is it too late to start learning financial control at that moment?
Parents are encouraged to give their children opportunities to make actual purchases in their daily lives when they are young. This helps to enhance their cognitive understanding, mathematical concepts and, more importantly, their general knowledge and habits of financial management. For example, ask them to pay in cash instead of electronically when buying food from convenience stores or subway tickets. Even though parents may need to spend more time in the process, they may not have a complete concept of money yet, but their actual participation can easily generate curiosity and observation, and gradually feel or understand the value of different items.
Parents can teach them to recognize money at different levels as they grow up, and when teaching them to actually buy things, they must add fun learning or activity elements. First, parents can provide them with opportunities at home to learn about different coins or bills, such as the difference between one and two dollars and the colors of different bills. Second, when they have mastered the basic concepts, parents can ask them to change the coins or bills that they are instructed to change. Further, once they know how to pay in one direction, parents can guide them to take back the money they have redeemed. Finally, when they are learning to buy, they need to know if they are getting the right amount of money, and the amount or complexity of the amount can increase as their cognitive level increases!
In general, parents do not need to give up paying electronically in their daily life, as long as they have enough coins or banknotes for learning on weekends or when appropriate. For example, when taking a bus, take out the coins and actually check them, or when buying something, count the money provided by the parents and try to feel the actual purchase, if it is really inconvenient, parents can use electronic means to complete the transaction simultaneously.
Written by : Registered Dietitian (Australia) Chung Yong Man
Everyone says to eat more fruit, although fruit is beneficial is a cliché, but at the same time there are a number of mysteries: fruit is not very high in sugar? Will eating it cause fat? Is it necessary to eat fruit before meals in order to absorb the nutrients in the fruit? Let me break it down for you one by one.
Fruits can cause fat?
Yes, because fruit contains natural sugar – fructose, can provide calories, so a lot of fruit will intake too much calories, resulting in obesity. However, in addition to fructose, fruit also contains other nutrients, which have great health benefits. For example, oranges, kiwis and strawberries are rich in vitamin C, which helps to strengthen resistance. Bananas, melon and raisins are rich in potassium, which helps stabilize blood pressure. In addition, the dietary fiber in fruits can help prevent constipation and maintain intestinal health. I still encourage people to develop the habit of eating fruits every day, as long as the amount of fruits consumed is controlled, it will not lead to fructose overload.
According to the recommendations of the Hong Kong Department of Health, the daily portion of fruit intake is as follows.
Children aged 2 to 5 years: at least 1 serving per day
Children aged 6 to 11 years, adolescents, and adults: at least 2 servings per day
1 serving of fruit =
2 small fruits, e.g., kiwi, plum
1 medium-sized fruit, e.g. orange, apple
Half a large fruit, e.g. banana, dragon fruit
Half a bowl of granular fruit, e.g., lychee, grapes, longan, or cut watermelon, melon
1 tablespoon of dried fruit without added sugar or salt, such as dried raisins, dried prunes
I recommend that you eat 2 to 3 servings of fruit daily, and that you choose more fruits of different types and colors to get a more comprehensive intake of different nutrients.
Eating fruit before meals is the most “nutritious”?
There is a popular belief that eating fruits before meals is more nutritious. In fact, there is no scientific basis for this view, healthy people can eat fruit at any time. However, for some people who are in the process of weight control, adjusting the time of eating fruits may help, because the dietary fiber of fruits can increase the feeling of fullness, and eating fruits before meals can help them avoid eating too much during meals, or they can arrange to eat fruits after meals to prevent eating other high-calorie snacks due to “feel peckish”. However, people with diabetes need to pay attention to the amount and timing of fruit intake, please consult your doctor and dietitian for advice.
Congratulations to the students of our school for winning the GAPSK Nursery Song Poetry Elite Competition (the third session)
Seven awards in Kindergarten category
Include:
Two Championship Awards：
K2WChan Ho Yan
K2W Lin Tsun Yui
Three Runner-up Prizes：
K1B Tso Lok Ching
K2A Zhong Muk Hei
K2A Fok Yeuk Kiu
Two Awards of Excellence：
K2A Yu Chi Yuen
K2C Zhang Wenshuo
Congratulations to all the award-winning students🙌🏻, and at the same time, I would also like to thank our Mandarin teacher Li Qin for teaching our outstanding students carefully👍🏻
The contents are as follows:
These were the highlights of the K1 Unit 1 “Adaptation Week and First Day in School” activity. During the activity, students met their teachers and classmates at Chan King Har Kindergarten. Here’s to many more firsts~
These were the highlights of the K2 Unit 1 “Making Friend with Tin Tin” activity. During the activity, students created eco-friendly maracas and tried shaking them together. It was really fun~
These were the highlights of the K3 Unit 1 “They Love Me” activity. During the activity, students got familiar with the names of family members and their responsibilities and learned how to be filial to them. In addition, there were also wonderful photos from the Mid-autumn Festival and International Traditional Costume Day activities~
It is finally our Kindergarten students‘ (Chan King Har Kindergarten) turn to show up in the video🙌🏻 in this episode! Do you want to know what food our children are secretly preparing to make? Do you want to send heart-warming surprises to those around you? Hurry up and let’s watch the video🎥!!
I would like to wish Tung Wah Group of Hospitals a happy birthday💕🎂
After watching the video, you may wish to take the time to make delicious food with the children. You are also welcome to leave a message on the Facebook page and share with us. Remember to like and share to support our children💪🏻
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Written by: Caritas Rehabilitation Services,Clinical Psychologist, Yu Kwok Ting
Some parents may be more impulsive and even have a habit of blaming their children for problems such as disobedience, deliberate anger, or naughtiness. When children fail to do what they want, they become angry with their parents, but this will gradually alienate them from their parents, which will damage the parent-child relationship in the long run.
Parents’ personalities, families of origin, and parenting methods learned in different ways will affect parent-child relationships. And the adults’ thoughts will influence their mood. If adults find themselves in frequent conflicts with children, which affect the parent-child relationship, we can ask ourselves three questions.
1.Whether there are other possibilities
If a child is not able to do all the homework required by his or her parents, the first thing the parents think is that the child is just having fun and not doing homework, but the real reason may be that they do not know how to do it and need parental guidance. If parents take preconceived notions as facts, they may ignore the needs and difficulties of their children and damage the parent-child relationship
2. Whether one’s own thoughts have been confirmed
Some parents often say that their child is “deliberately annoyed” and then see their child’s behavior as disobedience, but perhaps the reason for the child’s behavior is carelessness, but the parents are influenced by their subjective feelings and misunderstand their child.
3. Are your thoughts helpful to the goal?
If a parent’s goal is to mend the parent-child relationship, but he or she often holds the idea that the child is “deliberately working against him or her,” is this thinking really helpful to his or her goal? Parents can try to find more realistic and justifiable ideas to help them achieve their goals.
Dear Parents/Guardians,
First of all, we would like to greet everyone a happy Winter Solstice and a wonderful reunion! Christmas is also just around the corner. TWGHs joint school kindergartens have designed a set of 10 different Christmas stickers with our season’s greetings that we would like to share with everyone.
We invite everyone to visit the joint school’s Facebook page to check and download the stickers.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance!
