Our school has obtained the “Hygiene Control System Certification” issued by the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) since 2017 and the quality assurance of international standards has been achieved in terms of hygiene. Under the epidemic situation, our school once again passed the HKQAA’s three-year audit certification, which is valid from 2021 to 2024 and continues to effectively protect the safety and health of students, teachers, and staff.
Our campus channel “Fun芬Channel” is officially launched today! This campus channel is an online platform dedicated to the children of our school.
We have invited professional shooting team to capture interesting and special moments during our regular student activities and then edit them into short films. We will regularly upload videos and hope that everyone will keep support our campus channel!
School bus service is provided to students who live far away from school. Partial subsidy will be offered. For more details, please contact us at 24450423.
Our school has obtained the “Hygiene Contorl System Certification (SHMS) Certification” issued by the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) since 2017, and the quality assurance of international standards has been achieved in terms of hygiene. Under the epidemic situation, our school once again passed the HKQAA’s three-year audit certification, which is valid from 2021 to 2024, and continues to effectively protect the safety and health of students, teachers, and staff.
School bus service is provided to students who live far away from school. Partial subsidy will be offered. For more details, please contact us at 2445 0423.
Our campus channel “Fun芬Channel” is officially launched today! This campus channel is an online platform dedicated to the children of our school.
We have invited professional shooting team to capture interesting and special moments during our regular student activities and then edit them into short films. We will regularly upload videos and hope that everyone will keep support our campus channel!
Written by： Ms. Ng Ka Chun, Former Principal of Lok Sin Tong Leung Wong Wai Fong Memorial School
Young children always have low patience and have difficulty tolerating & waiting. Self-control is a comprehensive ability of an individual to properly control and regulate his or her behavior without external supervision, to suppress impulses, and persevere to ensure the achievement of goals. It is an important component in the construction of self-awareness and is an important psychological quality for the success of an individual.
Waiting is the mark of a child’s success
In the 1960s, the American psychologist Professor Michel conducted a fudge experiment. He took a group of children aged about four to a modestly furnished house and gave them each a very tasty piece of fudge, telling them that if they ate the fudge right away, they could only eat one; if they ate it again after 20 minutes, they would be rewarded with one more piece of fudge, and they could eat two pieces of fudge in total. After Michelle left, some children were eager to eat the candy, while others were patient, closed their eyes, or rested their heads on their arms as sleep; some children talked to themselves or sang to divert their attention and spent time restraining their desire. Through observation, Michelle found that one-third of the children ate the candy immediately, one-third of the children waited for Michelle to come back and redeem the extra reward before they started to eat, and another one-third of the children insisted at first, but then could not resist giving up waiting.
Michel continued to follow the children who participated in the experiment until they graduated from high school. The results of the follow-up study showed that the children who started eating candy right away showed a lack of confidence and did not get along well with their peers as teenagers, while those who waited until the end to eat candy were socially competent, assertive and academically successful. The “waiters” scored an average of 210 points higher on the test than the “non-waiters”. The actual results show that those children who could wait had a much higher success rate than those who could not wait.
In the above experiment, Michel introduced the concept of “delayed gratification” – the ability to wait is the ability to delay gratification, and children with delayed gratification are more likely to succeed as adults.
Let babies learn to wait a while
Patience is not something children are born with, but it can be mastered through learning. Before a child can learn patience, he or she must have the “ability to measure and understand time” and the “ability to understand cause and effect” before we can develop the ability to tolerate frustration and delay gratification.
Infants from zero to 18 months of age have only two or three
minutes of patience. Even so, newborns must be taught to wait a while, and
encouraging patience begins with simply telling them. When he hears your words,
he will begin to think about what will come later, so parents can prepare their
baby for his needs while describing in words what you have prepared for him.
When a few months old baby hears you, he will stop fretting as a sign that he
understands what you are saying, because language is linked to cause-and-effect
thinking, so it helps babies learn to delay gratification.
Written By: Founder of Kat-Spirit Nutrition Centre
Senior Nutritionist Ng Yiu Fun
The school year has started, did the children have breakfast before school? Many children have different reasons for not eating breakfast, but parents should pay attention to the fact that breakfast has a great impact on the growth of children!
Earlier, a study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong showed that breakfast has a significant impact on the academic performance of students. Students who have the habit of eating breakfast every day, test scores are more than 5 points higher than the average student who did not eat breakfast. Why does breakfast make us smarter?
Because the brain needs blood sugar for nutrient absorption and consumption, but when our body sleeps all night without food, the body has consumed our blood sugar for the whole day. Therefore, we need to eat breakfast to replenish blood sugar, so that our response becomes faster. Parents may ask, “What is the best breakfast for children?
What breakfast can “wake up our brain and morning”?
1. Starchy food
This includes porridge, flour, noodles, rice, bread and biscuits, so we can eat a sandwich, a bowl of macaroni or rice flour as well; even drinking milk, eating oatmeal or corn flakes is fine
2. Protein supplement
Since protein itself can make us
react faster, for example, shredded chicken is rich in protein, so for breakfast,
you can choose a bowl of rice noodles in shredded chicken soup or macaroni in
shredded chicken soup, or have an egg sandwich with cheese, which can also help
us replenish our needs for the day. So all parents remember to remind children
to eat breakfast before going to school!
Many parents have had the experience
of taking their children out to play, and the family was in a happy mood and
the children were having a good time. But suddenly, the child makes some
unreasonable requests (such as seeing a toy to buy), and the parent does not
allow it, the child immediately changes his face and cries. When the parent
reprimands the child, the child becomes more aggressive, not only crying
louder, but also having a tantrum fiercely and stomping on the ground,
attracting the attention of passers-by (who may even suspect that you are
abusing the child). Parents have no choice but to do their utmost to soothe the
child, or even raise their hands in surrender and buy the child a toy in the
hope of calming the storm. In the end, once the child has succeeded in his
request, he would turn tears into laughter even when the toy is still not
received. The previous crying is gone and makes parents unable to laugh or cry.
However, have parents ever noticed that if the
number of times of “compromise due to pressure” increases, the number
of children’s cries will increase instead of decrease? This is due to a
psychological phenomenon – “Positive Reinforcement” consequence.
Positive Reinforcement” means that when a behavior occurs, if a reward is
given immediately, the behavior will occur again. The more the reward, the
higher the chance that the behavior will be repeated.
To apply the example to the child, if the child cries a lot, if the adult satisfies his unreasonable request (such as buying a toy) when he is most agitated, this is a reward for his crying behavior, and in the future, when the child has other unreasonable requests, he will be more inclined to use the crying method to achieve his goal. In addition, children generally want to be loved and cared for by their parents. If parents usually ignore them, but the child cries, the parents will immediately become very nervous because even scolding is a form of attention, and over time, children will tend to cry as a means of attracting their parents’ attention.
Therefore, the first and foremost thing parents should do to properly handle their children’s crying is to maintain a gentle attitude, but at the same time, they should stick to their principles and not compromise easily, especially not to finally give in and meet demands just because the child continues to cry. If parents cannot control the situation, they can try to reduce their attention to the child, such as removing eye contact, being expressionless, or not talking to the child. In addition, if the crying occurs at home, parents can take the child to a quiet corner, cut off all attention to the child, let the child calm down, and then slowly explain to him what the problem is.
Of course, it is more important to
give children appropriate attention from time to time when they are behaving
well and not crying, so that they feel safe and do not use fussing as a
“bargaining chip” to win the love of their parents. This is the
solution to the problem
