How to break the dilemma of taking care of children during summer vacation
2025-07-14
As summer vacation approaches, many families have started the "divine beast" all day at home mode. When children cheer and enjoy their holidays, parents can be described as having a perfect combination of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and delicious flavors. Disordered daily routines, addiction to electronic devices, and strained parent-child relationships... During the long holidays, students return from collective school life to family life, and family education faces many challenges. In November last year, the Ministry of Education and 17 other departments jointly issued the "Work Plan for the Collaborative Education of Family, School, and Society" Education Alliance ", which clearly proposed the construction of a collaborative mechanism centered on schools, centered on regions, and linked by resources. During the summer vacation, resource allocation centered around the school can help transform summer parenting from "parents fighting alone" to a collaborative effort between families, schools, and communities, turning summer pain points into opportunities for children's growth. Specifically, during the summer vacation, school education cannot completely withdraw. Professional guidance and resource support can be provided to families to help them overcome the dilemma of taking care of their children during the holiday. To leverage the role of schools as the "center" of education in the "Education Alliance" and innovate mechanisms to continuously empower family education, it is necessary to clarify two roles. One is to clarify the role of "guide" and strengthen the extension of the main battlefield of school education to holidays. During summer vacation, the main body of education is the family, and schools are not a substitute for the main responsibility of family education. They should empower families with professional knowledge and effective resources to solve the problem of "how to manage". Develop practical and down-to-earth micro course resources targeting common pain points such as holiday mobile phone dependence and disrupted sleep patterns, utilize the home school co education platform to push, and invite education experts and mental health experts to provide consultation and counseling both online and offline. For example, starting from this summer vacation, our school has invited family education experts and psychological counselors to join the school and set up a special guidance salon for sixth grade parents on "psychological adjustment for primary school transition". At the same time, the school has developed 80 "Five Colored Flowers" home school co education micro video courses that are regularly pushed, covering high-frequency summer needs such as time management, parent-child communication, and exercise plans, providing parents with a "scaffold" for scientific parenting, which is highly welcomed by parents. The second is to clarify the role of "supporters" and establish a normalized family education support mechanism. Having nowhere to go is one of the most headache inducing issues for parents during summer vacation. Children who stay at home for long periods of time have limited activity space and are easily addicted to electronic devices, leading to various unhealthy habits. The public spaces such as reading rooms, activity centers, fitness areas, and green parks owned by the community should be fully utilized. By making good use of these resources, not only can we provide solutions to the problem of "nowhere to go" when taking care of children during summer vacation, but it can also become a practical classroom for cultivating students' emotions and abilities to live in harmony with society. In this regard, schools should establish a normalized family education support mechanism, actively act as matchmakers, coordinate, integrate, and activate community energy and social resources, and build a solid and dynamic localized support network for family education. For example, this year, Jinan High tech Zone in Shandong Province has fully implemented a new form of "project-based practical exploration", extensively linking social resources, carrying out public welfare mutual assistance and project-based learning activities, and solving the common problem of unattended students during holidays. Holiday education should not be "cut off", and growth should not be "grazed". The dilemma of taking care of children during summer may seem like a small family issue, but it is actually a matter of education for thousands of households. Students can take a break, but the responsibility and protection of education cannot take a break. To continuously strive for the healthy growth of every child, schools should not "hide" during holidays, nor should they become "hands off shopkeepers" just because of holidays. (New Society)
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