Homework and newspapers are on the way! Summer vacation is running out, and this epic drama is unfolding
2024-08-10
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Jin Dandan, reporter of Chao News Client
As soon as the calendar turns to August, many mothers become a little anxious.
Nearly two-thirds of the two-month summer vacation has passed, and the remaining balance is running out. What progress has your child made with his summer homework?
Recently, many parents have been keeping an eye on their children and making them do their homework. Some want to finish it ahead of time, while others want to make up for what they missed due to traveling or watching the Olympics.
The curtain has been raised on the epic rush to finish homework.
Traveling during the holidays + being sick + watching the Olympics, I missed nearly 20 days of homework
"He has missed so much homework that he is really going to cry!" Ms. Hong, a parent, lamented that her son hardly studied in the first month of summer vacation.
"My child is going from primary school to junior high school this year. After the holiday at the end of June, he spent a few days preparing for the junior high school entrance exam. Then he received the admission letter, attended the parent-teacher meeting, and distributed summer homework." Ms. Hong said that her son had been looking forward to the graduation trip, so she planned the itinerary early this year and went abroad for 10 days.
"We left on July 10, and I wanted my son to make good use of the first few days of July to do his homework. He said that he was a little tired after studying for six years and needed to relax. He also procrastinated with his homework and only completed one week's tasks." When traveling, the family was always on the road and the itinerary was quite full. Although she brought some homework, Ms. Hong found that she did not have time to give her child homework.
"I managed to stick to reading and reciting English every day because it only takes ten minutes a day and it's easy to stick to it. As for the other homework, I just recited it intact."
On the evening of July 20, after returning home from the trip, Ms. Hong told her son that after a short rest the next day, he would start studying and make up for the homework he had not done during the ten days of travel.
"July 21 was Sunday. I didn't go to work, so I watched him write. He was very efficient that day and wrote a lot! But the high efficiency only lasted for one day!" The next day, Monday, not long after she went to work, Ms. Hong received a call from her son, "His voice was a little hoarse, and he said he was not feeling well and needed to sleep for a while. I rushed back to deliver lunch at noon, and when I took his temperature, it was gone, he had a fever!"
Fever, cough, poor appetite, drowsiness...Ms. Hong recalled that her son was sick for five consecutive days. "If you are not feeling well, you will not be able to study or do your homework, so you should just rest well. That's all you can do."
After a week's rest, seeing that her son had almost recovered, Ms. Hong hurriedly took her son to re-plan his homework schedule.
"It was already the end of July, and it was time to submit his homework in batches. I could only ask for leave for him so that he could continue to make up for the missed homework. After a few days of making up for the missed homework, the Olympics started. I felt sorry for restricting him from watching the homework, but I let him watch it freely, and his progress in making up for the missed homework was too slow..."
Catch up on practical assignments and newspapers
"The child has basically completed her written homework, but has not done any of the practical homework!" said Ms. Chen, a parent. Last weekend, she was working with her daughter to complete the practical homework.
"The children didn't have much written homework during the summer vacation, so they had basically finished it by the end of July. Last Saturday, a classmate's mother asked whether a certain practical homework had been handed in. We were shocked to find that we hadn't even started the social practice homework or the tabloid!"
Ms. Chen calculated that there were several small items in the social practice assignments, including volunteering in the community, visiting museums, etc.
"I contacted the community right away, and the community staff said that there were several activities suitable for children to participate in, all of which were held in July. There were no activities in early August for the time being, and they would notify us when there were. Social practice is very meaningful, but we didn't plan it well, and if we rushed to finish it, the gains would be discounted." Ms. Chen looked at several museums she wanted to take her children to, "Several popular museums require reservations, and I looked around and found a museum that didn't require reservations and was relatively empty."
Last Sunday at noon, after lunch, the family drove from the south of the city to a museum in the north of the city.
"The temperature was over 40 degrees Celsius that day, but we worked very hard to go to the museum despite the heat wave." Ms. Chen said that her daughter enjoyed the museum visit and looked carefully at every exhibition hall, but the final assignment required her to make a tabloid or a video. "She had fun visiting the museum, but it was a headache to sort out and summarize it."
During the interview, many parents said that the most troublesome thing during every holiday was the "freestyle" homework such as tabloids, mind maps, and videos.
Just complete it "Buddha-like". The child's level is "awful". Parents, please help. Not only is the child "rolling" to the point where you can't see the ceiling, but you also feel too tired and annoyed.
"These past few nights, after dinner, I helped my child make tabloids, and he finally finished five!" Ms. Qian, a parent, told reporters that last year, her son spent several days on his tabloid homework by himself. "It took a whole day to find information, write and draw for one tabloid. But the time was wasted, the work was ugly, and the final score was also very poor."
After that experience, my son was very discouraged, and this summer he asked his mother for help with the tabloid.
"Social practice assignments, newspapers, videos, etc. are very time-consuming. Now I don't have much time, so I'll help." Ms. Qian said that she was good at drawing when she was young, so she took the initiative to help her child with typesetting and drawing. "I also need to find the topic of the newspaper and organize the text materials with my child in advance. I won't do it all for him. He still has to focus on writing the text, refining the theme, and sorting out the logic. The child's ability will be greatly improved in the process of completing it seriously. I also hope that his ability to beautify the newspaper will gradually improve."
This summer, Chao News has also opened a display space for social practice activities for students across the province, providing everyone with more opportunities for display and communication.
When carrying out summer social practice activities, students can record the practice process and their gains and experiences, and use the "Colorful Summer Vacation Snaps" section of Laichao News to display what they see, hear, think and learn, and share their thoughts and growth from summer practice activities.
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