Chapter 4: Caring for Left-behind Children

After returning home, the two families got together for a celebratory meal, celebrating that the beasts had finally started school, and the parents were finally liberated, and in a blink of an eye, the next day, the students had just arrived at the classroom, and they saw Mr. Liu Junyu waiting for everyone in the classroom, because the first class was Chinese, just when the students were happy, I saw Mr. Liu take out a roll from the desk pocket:

"Dear students, since you come from different kindergartens, your grades may be different, in order to better educate you efficiently, we will conduct a thorough test, please put away the learning items on the table, take out the pen to prepare for the test"

As he spoke, he curled the test down, and this group of babies who were still laughing and laughing just now instantly became listless as if frost had been beaten, Murong Han and Wang Chuhan both looked at each other with a helpless look, and couldn't help but complain in their hearts: The exam started on the first day of school, ah no, it's the second day, it's too speechless, let's take the test as soon as we come, how will we live in the future! God, why do you treat us children like this!

But complaining is complaining, the test paper still has to be done, who makes us students, in a recent class, the whole class has opened the time to do the question, although the question is not difficult, but I can't prevent some students from writing slowly, you say that people write slowly, what can you do, you can't keep urging it, not to mention that the accuracy rate of this student is still quite high;

The next thing is to correct, on the spot, not to change the score, only to correct the right and wrong, although the school has just started, but it can be seen that these children have worked hard during the holidays, and the day has passed;

Although they are all in the South, the educational environment is quite different; The mountain village at the foot of Daliang Mountain is a different scenery, the children here are basically living with their grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents, so some people ask, 'what about their parents', there is no doubt that the answer is 'going out to work' in order for the children to live better in the future, and there are very few because the parents are no longer alive, we call them left-behind children (refers to the farmers who go out to work for more than three consecutive months in their hometowns where they are registered, and are under the guardianship of their parents or other relatives, and receive compulsory education. );

Here I would like to talk about the problems related to left-behind children;

First of all, left-behind children are a group and a collective noun. There are two distinct groups of people in this group.

The first type of children is no different from most children, and even higher than the average child in terms of thinking, they are optimistic, strong, sensible and open-minded. Know to care for your family and care for others. Although life is hard, they are happy in the suffering, and their strength and courage make them always keep smiling, these children are also left-behind children, but they are often ignored by us;

The second type is children who do not have enough psychological self-counseling, as we know, introverted and not good at talking. But in essence, they also yearn for their childhood wanton and innocent, but they haven't met anyone who really understands them.

In society, we know more about the second category of left-behind children, whose grief usually arouses the sympathy of the whole society. In fact, we cannot ignore the first category of left-behind children, whose strength and optimism deserve everyone's respect. The so-called teaching people to fish is more fishing, and the transmission of positive energy needs these. Not all left-behind children have psychological problems, and society should no longer give them too heavy a label. Therefore, we cannot generalize about the representation of left-behind children. Therefore, the following is only a detailed analysis report on some left-behind children, that is, the second type of left-behind children.

Ordinary Left-behind:

Left-behind children

There is such a vulnerable group in China. Their parents left their young children to earn a living, went out to work, and worked hard to earn family income, contributing to economic development and social stability, but they stayed at home in the countryside and spent very little time with their parents, including in the cities of the mainland, and some parents both went out to work in the bustling cities. These children, who are supposed to be the jewels of their parents, have become a special group——— left-behind children (urban children who do not live with their parents can also be called left-behind children).

The problem of left-behind children is a prominent social problem. With the rapid development of China's social, political and economic development, more and more young and middle-aged farmers have moved to the cities, and a special group of minors has emerged in the vast rural areas—rural left-behind children. Left-behind children are in a critical period of growth and development, they are unable to enjoy the guidance and help of their parents in ideological understanding and values, lack of emotional care and care from their parents in their growth, and are relatively easy to go to the two extremes of development.

According to authoritative surveys, the number of "left-behind children" in rural China exceeds 61 million (equivalent to the total population of the United Kingdom). 57.2% of the left-behind children had one parent going out, and 42.8% of the left-behind children had both parents going out. 79.7% of the left-behind children were raised by their grandparents, 13% were entrusted to relatives or friends, and 7.3% were uncertain or unsupervised.

Left-behind children are mostly taken care of by their grandparents, and the lack of parental guardianship and education roles has a negative impact on the overall and healthy growth of left-behind children, and the problem of "intergenerational education" is the most prominent among "left-behind children". According to the survey, after parents go out to work, they get together less and leave their children less, communicate less, far from meeting the requirements of their role as guardians, and there are many unsatisfactory aspects of intergenerational education, leaving these poor children with lifelong regrets.

Enping, Guangdong: Left behind

Due to geographical and historical reasons, the economic development of different regions in China is very unbalanced, and the contradiction between people and land in rural areas is acute. Driven by the rapid development of the market economy, a large number of rural surplus laborers have gone out to work in order to change their living conditions, and they are unable to bring their children with them due to the points-based enrollment policy and the household registration system, which has led to the problem of "left-behind children".

Due to the lack of family affection, there are shadows in the mental health of left-behind children, and a large part of them show inner closure, emotional indifference, low self-esteem and cowardice, withdrawn behavior, introverted personality, lack of love and communication initiative, and some are short-tempered, impulsive and irritable, and often escalate gratuitous trivial matters into fights.

The life of Fuzhou Wanyang left behind:

In the area of the Minjiang River estuary in Fuzhou, there is such a group of left-behind children who live in the village with their grandparents and other relatives, but they are foreign citizens and have foreign nationality. These children are known as "foreign left-behind". Most of the parents of these left-behind "dolls" work in the United States, and most of them are illegal immigrants, who send their children back to China due to energy and time problems. Statistics show that there are nearly 10,000 such "dolls" in Fuzhou.

Located in the southwest of Guangdong Province, Enping City is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China, with a total population of more than 480,000 people, 120,000 compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 420,000 overseas Chinese from more than 50 countries and regions around the world. According to information provided by the city's Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs, there are about 3,000 children with the same background as Feng Xiaoqiang — a more accurate figure cannot be counted because "every day children are sent back and children are sent out." Guarding their grandparents, transatlantic telephones, and foreign toys sent from the air, they are called "foreign left-behind children" or left-behind "dolls".

Causes:

Left-behind children

The phenomenon of left-behind children in rural China comes from both family and social aspects. On the one hand, the poverty of the family makes the parents of the children have to go out of the countryside to work in the city; On the other hand, China's long-standing urban-rural duality and unfair treatment of "migrant workers" have left farmers unable and able to bring their children into the cities.

There are about 66.83 million left-behind children in China, including migrant children in urban and rural areas and left-behind children in rural areas.

About 130 million rural workers in China have migrated to urban areas. According to the 2005 China 1% Population Sample Survey, there are about 58 million left-behind children in rural China, of which more than 40 million are under the age of 14. Compared with 2000, the number of left-behind children in rural areas in 2005 increased rapidly. Among all rural children, the proportion of left-behind children is 28.29 per cent, with an average of more than one out of every four rural children.

The causes of left-behind children are as follows:

1. Migrant workers in cities are generally engaged in labor-intensive and long-working hours, and they simply do not have the time and energy to take care of their children after work.

2. The wages and benefits of migrant workers cannot be compared with those of urban workers, and there is a big gap. It is difficult to support a family in the city at their level of wage income.

3. Due to the restrictions on household registration, it is basically impossible for the children of migrant workers to attend schools in the city, and even if there are schools to accept them, it is difficult for their parents to bear the high fees. However, the schools in the cities for the children of migrant workers are basically privately run, and the quality of teaching cannot be compared with those in urban schools or in rural areas.

The children here are eager to go to school and hope that someone can teach them, but the restrictions of teaching conditions are prohibitive, so the state has implemented a teaching project to aid Xinjiang and Tibet and other regions, and the teaching group organized by the provincial education department officially selected Murong Han's mother Liu Juexin was honored to be selected as a candidate teacher of the third experimental primary school in Jinling City, and began a three-year volunteer teaching life; On the second day after the candidates were determined, the relevant responsible comrades of the Provincial Department of Education carried out a farewell party, their destination was the Sichuan-Chongqing region, and the place where Liu Juexin and the others went was the school where Daliangshan was located in Sichuan-Shu;

The excitement on the faces of the students here when they saw a group of new teachers was distressing, and it was clear from their eyes that they were eager to learn, to learn, to be able to get out of the mountains, which also shocked the hearts of the teachers who came this time.