Resilience for 1000Left-behind kids in Rural China

As the perspective of a volunteer teacher, today's report will take you into Shuikou Hope Primary School. Let's have a look at the changes of a special kid--Heng.

Heng is impressed by every teacher. He would carefully memorize the name of each teacher, send chili sauce to the teacher from Sichuan, and be too active in class, requiring the teacher to remind him to behave well many times. Many stories happened between us and Heng.

One day Heng suddenly rushed into the classroom without saying a word and sitting in the back row directly, class teachers are very surprised, and I went over and asked: "Heng, what happened? Why aren't you in Gym class?" He did not say a word, but kept panting and looking very angry. Under constantly ask, we found out that he don't refuse teachers to have physical contact with him. So I tried to hold his hand and communicate with him through the lessons of the Resilience course: "Heng, do you remember the 'Friendship Cake' we studied together the other day? We want to become good friends with you, so we can be honest to you, I don't know if you want to make friends with me? Shouldn't you be able to be honest if you want to?" I try to look at his eyes, he sat for a moment, then nodded silently, and cry to tell us that there is a boy in the class laugh at him that he played with girls...

After that, the basketball teachers often tell children: "Boy and girl can be friends, as teachers will also play with female/male teacher." This experience is a new for Heng to face up to the problem, speak out bravely and deal with it. I believe that Heng has also planted a seed of "how to deal with the problem correctly" in his heart.

One afternoon, a teacher told us that: "Heng is not feeling well, a little dizzy. He was sent by his grandmother." When everyone else was in gym class, he would sit in his seat and hide his face under the eaves of his cap and bury it in comic books. I went over and asked: "Heng are you okay? Did you miss gym class because you weren't feeling well?" He buried his head in the book and said nothing. We asked him patiently for a long time. He was still silent, but his eyes were full of tears. Then the other teacher said: "Heng, you heard from your classmate that a teacher told you can't come to school in the afternoon, so you are late to school. right?" Heng shake his head, hesitated and said: "It's me that go to school late "

This time without "Friendship Cake", Heng are also willing to share more to us. We explained to him: "The teacher didn't say that, the other students misunderstand, would you like to go and apologize to the teacher?" He hesitated for a moment and nodded. After several times to solve the problem together with Heng, he promised that he won't choose to be silent to escape when we face a problem, but should learn how to be brave to express, to express his apology, express your anger, to express their sad.....

. Learning to express is the first step to solve problem and love others. We always believe that with enough patience and love, we will see there are more beautiful stories are coming!