Revision List:
1. If parents have no time to volunteer with children, what can they do?
2. Can being volunteers improve the relationship between parents and children?
Let’s
Volunteer –Learning More When Going out the Classroom
Daisy L. Hung, a well-known scientist in Taiwan, said, “I still
think the outside is the real classroom. What we learn from the outside is really
useful.” After reading a book which is about a group of college students volunteering
in Malawi, she thought although a teacher teaches Life Education hard for one
semester, students can understand less than experiences during ten days in
Malawi. Encouraging students to volunteer helps students have a kind heart. When
they contact with the disabled or the old, they understand difficulties which
those people encounter; then, they might be more concerned about them. If
students have participated in service teams when studying, the probability of
keeping volunteering after working will increase. However, if students have no volunteer
experience when studying, they might hardly volunteer after working because
their soft hearts harden with the impact of competition in the workplace. It is ideal that
volunteers use their specialties to help others, because they benefit from each
other—students learn to meet practical needs.
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Figure 2: Example is better than precept.
Taken from http://www.ccgchome.org |
Xiu-ling Kuo, director of World Vision
Taiwan, indicated that many students are asked to engage in social service. In
last two years, the number of parents who actively volunteered with children
also increased. Parents encourage their children to volunteer to learn what
they cannot learn from schools. Some parents who believe that “example is
better than precept” will also volunteer, and then lead their children to
follow them. Topics between parents and children are no longer only around
schoolwork, but more about others; parent-child relationship will be more harmonious.
However, if double-income parents are
too busy to volunteer with children, how can they encourage their children to
volunteer? There are various charities in Taiwan, such as Tzuchi, Genesis
Social Welfare Foundation, Eden Social Welfare Foundation, etc. Most of them held
activities to teach children how to feed back the society. Parents send their
children into the organization; then, members teach children morality and lead
them to practice. Mr. Chen, who also sent his child into activities Tzuchi
hold, believed that children learned more than what teachers taught in schools.
After seeing the change of his child, he decided to join the volunteer team. It
is a bonus that children affect their parents to volunteer. Actually, double-income
parents can also volunteer with their children in their limited leisure time.
In fact, teachers in schools also
notice the importance of social service; some of them take students to visit nursing
homes, caring for the old. Even now a lot of colleges require that students
need to volunteer over 100 hours before graduation. Obviously, more and more
people highlight the issue about volunteers; however, does being volunteers become
formalized? If children volunteer without parents, how can they improve their
relationship? Let’s discuss in the next annotation!
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Work Cited
Daisy L. Hung. (2008, Nov 4). Going out the classroom as volunteers.
Chiu, Q. P. (2009, Oct 4). Parents and children volunteer together.
United Daily News. http://ppt.cc/yY_H
Gao, Z. L. & Zhang Y. L. (2012, Jun 30). Children grew up.
Zhang N. C. (2012, July 13). Children volunteered in the nursing home.
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