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2022 Parent School: How to Strengthen Our Emotional Immunity?

April 8, 2022

Promoting students’ mental health development and healthy student-parent communication is an integral part of SHSID’s mission. On March 10, SHSID High School organized a lecture on stress management for students in Grades 9-12. In the evening of that day, the first “parent school” of 2022 was also held. The famous sociology scholar Mr. Yang Xiong was invited to give an online lecture on "How to Be Smart Parents in the AI Era" for parents of students in Grades 9-12. Mr. Yang analyzed the current educational policies and internet environment, and put forward some suggestions on how parents can smartly communicate with their children based on high schoolers’ common mental state and real-life cases.

Though the normal on-campus teaching method was interrupted by the pressing COVID situation and many hardships have arisen from the COVID lockdown, SHSID still strives to facilitate students’ mental health development and student-parent communication on top of its day-to-day online teaching.

In addition to the regular recommendations of suitable online resources, a new “parent school” was launched online on April 7 with the theme "Quality Communication and Emotional Immunity" to help parents take good care of themselves and their children during the lockdown. The lecture was given by Ms. Gu Ying, the Grade 10 Supervisor, to advise parents on how to deal with negative emotions and how to have better communication and understanding with each other during the lockdown.

Through the questions collected beforehand, Ms. Gu divided the lecture into two main parts: emotion regulation during the epidemic, and parent-child communication at home. With the support of professional knowledge in biology and psychology, Ms. Gu took the physiological, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional mechanisms as the starting point to explain various changes brought by the epidemic to students and the causes that hinder parent-child communication. It is hoped that by understanding these changes, such as the magnification of negative emotions during special events of life, parents can better perceive their children’s actions and words, and provide proper support and assistance accordingly.

Various real cases shared by Ms. Gu linked sub-topics like general communication skills, common mutual misunderstandings, common topics, etc., and allowed participants to see that making more informed changes may help parents and their children better enjoy the joy of communication during the lockdown. Ms. Gu also stressed that if certain emotional or communicational problems cannot be solved through self-adjustment, it is strongly recommended to seek help from mental health professionals in a timely manner.

During this critical period of life, it is hoped that this lecture can draw more attention to mental health and good communication during the epidemic, and, in turn, help generate more positive energy in each student’s family to offset the hardship that we are all facing. Spring is around the corner.

(Written by Hazel Gu Pictures: from the lecture slides Reviewed by Qian Zuo)