通过邻居的介绍，我决定让芊伶加入A Zon生命教育学苑，参与生命教育课程。她从2009年加入A Zon，至今，已有大约5年了。芊伶，女，今年12岁。在A Zon生命教育学苑，她参与的课程包括a级少儿生活技能艺术坊，a级儿少生命教育俱乐部及a级儿少假期生命营。 芊伶是家中的独生女，在家里难免会有比较千金的性格。当与别的小孩一同玩耍时，一开始还可以很好的相处，当时间一久，她便会与对方吵架。除此之外，对于照顾年纪比她小的弟弟妹妹或照顾年长的长辈，她会显得比较抗拒及不耐烦。
自从她开始接触生命教育，我觉得她变得更有爱心，会为人着想，会感恩及有自组能力。通过生命教育课程，尤其在参加多次的生命营中，让她有机会学习如何带领及照顾年纪较小的组员们，并在生活中学以致用，提高照顾堂ˎ表弟ˎ妹们的能力。芊伶参加的生命营中，其中一次是到老人院与老人家们一起欢庆新年。回家后，芊伶开始愿意及主动地照顾家中的奶奶，也减少了对照顾老人家的抗拒。此外，在与生活上的自理能力也明显地增强了。今年，芊伶就读六年级，由于即将面临小学评估考试，补习班也增加了，使她开始觉得压力及时间上的短缺。一开始，她觉得很累及无法把时间安排好，往往没时间把功课做好。这时候，我提醒她说，把在A Zon里学习筹备活动的技巧放入现在的生活上，一定会有帮助的！我小小的提醒，让她开始为自己的生活做好安排，并为自己的作息做好时间表。如今，她已经为自己安排好时间表，也渐渐地习惯及减少压力。对于爸爸妈妈，芊伶对我们也显得比较关怀。小时候，每当我们催促芊伶上床睡觉时，她总是不肯顺从，并要求多玩一会儿。如今，她却反过来催促我们去休息睡觉。每当我或她父亲放工回家看电视节目时，她总会说我们工作累了，要我们早点休息。由此，我觉得她给予别人的关心与关怀显得更进步了。
感恩有A Zon及团队老师们的用心，爱心教导孩子们。他们对孩子们的付出是无私的。希望有更多像他们那样的老师们加入A Zon的团队，让更多的孩子受益受惠。
给家长们鼓励的话...
社会本来就是一个大染缸，而今它变得更复杂，我们不能去阻止它的变化，只能把我们的孩子装备得更好，使他们不被感染，让他们能辨认是与非，黑与白。让他们成为更有爱心的一群未来的国家栋梁！
Interviewee’s Thoughts
Through my neighbor’s recommendation, I decided to enroll my daughter into A Zon Educare Advisory. My daughter, Qian Ling, is 12 years old, and has been attending A Zon’s classes for 5 years now since 2009. She has participated in various programs here in A Zon, such as a Life Child Living Etiquette Programme (CL), a Life Child & Teen Fun Club, and a Life Child & Teen Enrichment Camp. Qian Ling is the only child at home, and thus has been rather pampered. She tends to fight with other kids after some time of playing, or would show signs of resistance and impatience when asked to look after younger children or the elderly.
However, after attending A Zon Educare Advisory, I feel that she has cultivated a sense of empathy, gratitude, and also independence. Through the programs, especially the Enrichment Camp, she had the opportunity to lead and to look after younger members, which in turn reflected her ability to care for younger friends or children. There was once when she had to visit the Old Folks Home during Chinese New Year. After that visit, she initiated to take care of her grandmother at home and also showed less resistance towards the caring of elderly. Besides, she also showed a greater ability in taking care of herself.
Qian Ling is in standard 6 and is facing school exams and additional tuitions. The stress and time limitation in the beginning had exhausted her and led to her incompletion of homework. I then reminded her to apply the skills learnt from A Zon into her everyday life. With a gentle reminder, she started making arrangements for her daily activities and schedules. Now, she has a timetable of her own, which she has got used to and is less stressful. As for the parents, Qian Ling is also exhibiting more care towards us. She used to stall during bedtime, but now, she reminds us of our bedtime instead. Whenever her father or I watch television programs after work, she would say that we should go for a rest after a long day of hard work. I feel that all these behaviors reflect her improvements in caring for others.
Thank you for the hard work and care the teachers in A Zon have given to the children. I hope that there will be more teachers like them, so that the children will benefit even more.
A word to the parents:
The society is like a dye pot, and we cannot stop it from being complicated. We can only prepare our child to stand clean in this society, to teach them the ability to tell right from wrong, white from black. To cultivate them to be a loving and caring future pillars of our nation!
受访者 Interviewee： 芊伶妈妈
