Make Children's Summer Vacation happier and safer (Jintai Vision) Education | Safety | Vision
Summer is often a time of high incidence of accidents among children and adolescents. Accidents such as drowning, falling from heights, food poisoning, electric shock, traffic accidents, fires, etc. pose a threat to children's life safety and physical health. Recently, many readers have written to this newspaper suggesting increasing efforts in summer safety education. Parents, schools, and the whole society should tighten the string of holiday safety, strengthen safety protection hardware facilities, improve emergency management systems, popularize safety knowledge, and let children have a happy and safe summer vacation.
Parents should attach great importance to holiday safety issues
During the summer vacation, the responsibility of protecting children's safety shifts from schools to parents, and parents should first take on the responsibility of guardianship and reminders. "Some parents lack relevant safety awareness and care about their children, but they don't know what issues to pay attention to." Bai Zenghui, a reader from Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, said that parents should be reminded to strengthen their safety awareness, such as regularly checking the safety of electrical wires and appliances in their homes, placing drugs, hot water bottles, and other items out of reach of their children, educating their children on fire prevention, electric shock prevention, burns prevention, and the risk of accidental drinking and eating, reminding them to lock doors and windows, and not open doors to strangers.
Some readers have expressed that during the summer vacation, children have more free time, and their exposure to electronic products and online games has correspondingly increased. Especially, attention should be paid to children's playing of online games. On the one hand, it is necessary to avoid addiction, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to prevent falling into the trap of telecommunications fraud. During the summer vacation, some telecommunications fraud gangs targeted inexperienced teenagers, defrauding them of money while also causing harm to their mental health. Parents should not only pay attention to their children's physical health, but also their psychological and mental health. They should communicate more with their children, understand their psychological dynamics, teach anti fraud knowledge, and help them spend a healthy summer vacation.
Some parents keep their children alone at home due to busy work schedules and lack of care, resulting in accidents. Every summer vacation, the fire department receives reports and requests for help regarding children's dangerous situations. Accidents such as children crawling out of the window and getting trapped, electrical malfunctions causing fires, and so on frequently occur. Ms. Fan, a reader from Qingshanhu District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, has just entered first grade of elementary school. She said, "The child is still too young to be left at home alone. But if we send him to his hometown in the countryside to care for an elderly person, we are afraid that there will be too many rivers in the countryside and the elderly person's energy will be limited to take care of him, which may lead to accidents. It would be great if the school or community could open summer care classes."
In recent years, many places have successively launched public welfare summer care classes to alleviate the pressure of parental care, making parents more at ease and children safer, winning praise from the public. But the investigation by reporters also found that some childcare classes are understaffed, have limited venues, and lack resources, so they can only gather children to do homework or read books, making it difficult to carry out some activities. "The number of volunteers in the community who can provide public services in this area is limited, and children cannot take care of them as soon as they are young. Unless there are parents around, we generally do not encourage children to engage in outdoor activities," said a community volunteer.
Regarding this, Mr. Zhao, a reader from Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, suggested that the community can fully utilize volunteer service platforms, advocate for volunteers to actively sign up for summer care and other volunteer activities, and also carry out "one day volunteer" activities, calling on parents to serve as volunteers, assisting in the distribution of meals and order guidance during the care period, and reducing the pressure on community workers to manage and protect.
Associate Professor Zhu Yuhong from the School of Sociology and Population at Renmin University of China stated that parents should attach great importance to holiday safety, properly handle the relationship between work and children's holiday safety, and help them arrange their holiday life reasonably. Not only should we ensure the personal safety of children, but we should also attach importance to the cultivation and improvement of their mental health.
After an accidental injury occurs, some parents lack relevant first aid skills, are helpless or adopt inappropriate methods, causing secondary harm to their children. "Parents are advised to pay more attention to the reserve and accumulation of relevant emergency knowledge, such as common accident handling methods, first aid knowledge, etc., in order to win more time for professional rescue," said Zhu Yuhong.
School safety education should not go through the motions or become mere formality
During the summer vacation, it is still necessary for schools to actively participate in ensuring student safety education and establishing a safety guarantee system.
Shen Guohua, a reader from Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, believes that safety education for primary and secondary school students should be a compulsory course. Some teachers and parents believe that safety education has little to do with student enrollment and exams, so they neither care nor pay attention to it. Some schools do not even offer such courses, and this misconception should be corrected. "Students' safety education not only needs to learn safety knowledge, but also needs to have drill subjects and professional teachers to enable them to master relevant skills proficiently. Safety education must not go through the motions or become mere formality," said Shen Guohua.
"It is recommended that schools and various educational institutions strengthen safety education, with a focus on effective measures in key areas such as drowning prevention, electric shock prevention, traffic safety, food safety, and disease prevention. Regular safety education should be carried out to ensure student safety. Safety knowledge competitions such as fire prevention, drowning prevention, and fraud prevention can be carried out to further strengthen the concept and skills of student safety prevention." Qin Jizhen, a reader from Lianyungang, Jiangsu, said.
Recently, the Blue Sky Rescue Team entered Qiaoxi Central Primary School in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province to carry out drowning prevention safety education activities. With the arrival of summer, many schools have arranged anti drowning safety publicity activities.
Some readers suggest that after the school holiday, safety inspections should be carried out in various aspects such as classrooms, dormitories, canteens, and fire-fighting facilities. Especially for the maintenance and upkeep of outdoor sports facilities, as well as indoor related facilities such as libraries, sports arenas, and art galleries, to eliminate safety hazards.
For the holiday situation of students, schools and parents should also communicate in a timely manner, grasp the dynamics, and establish a home school interconnection system. Zhang Liyuan, the head of the Student Affairs Department of Yunnan University's Student Affairs Department, stated that a mechanism for identifying key time periods should be established. Through cooperation between families and schools, effective communication with parents of students should be strengthened, and parents should be guided to consciously enhance their awareness of holiday safety. Parents can also hold parent teacher meetings, safety training, etc. to help them identify and eliminate safety hazards in the living environment of teenagers and children, and correct some common unsafe practices.
"For students who need to stay on campus, we also have a multi-level management system from school, college to dormitory buildings to ensure the safety of students during their time on campus. Counselors and homeroom teachers will regularly contact and understand the situation of students, conduct safety inspections for key groups, and ensure the physical and mental health of students during holidays." Zhang Liyuan said.
Forming a joint force of the whole society to protect summer safety
The safety of holidays for teenagers and children not only requires the joint efforts of parents and schools, but also the joint efforts of the whole society to standardize the construction of safety facilities and strengthen safety education and publicity.
Xu Buwen, a reader from Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province, found that as summer approached, nearby towns gradually became lively. Especially in places with water, parents take their children to play in the water, and some children play by the water, touching snails and catching shrimp, enjoying themselves. After entering summer, the temperature increases and the number of people playing in the water increases, but many water areas lack safety warning signs and rescue equipment such as lifebuoys. "The safety facilities along reservoirs, rivers, and lakes need to be fully equipped. At the same time, parents should always pay attention to their children's safety and not let them play alone in the water. If an accident occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable," Mr. Xu said.
Some readers have reported in their letters that there are safety hazards in some public places, such as road potholes and damages, exposed streetlights and wires, and missing manhole covers. In addition, some community electrical and drainage facilities are installed improperly. It is recommended that relevant departments strengthen inspections of damaged public facilities, especially children's favorite amusement facilities, fitness equipment, etc., to eliminate risks and ensure safety.
Reader Jiao Fengxiu from Jining City, Shandong Province suggested in a letter that relevant departments should register areas within their jurisdiction that may cause safety accidents, such as rivers, ponds, ditches, and canals, and regularly conduct a screening of nearby safety facilities, continuously improving and updating safety isolation facilities and warning signs. Regularly inspect these areas and make emergency preparations, so that in the event of an accident, rescue can be carried out as soon as possible.
Firefighters from Yongji County Fire Brigade in Jilin Province recently visited Hedong Community in Kouqian Town to explain basic knowledge to children in the community, such as how to prevent family fires, how to dial the "119" alarm number, how to use fire extinguishers correctly, and how to escape and self rescue. Through VR and other technological means, children were able to experience how to accurately judge and evacuate in an orderly manner in the face of a fire on site. Wang Xueqiang, Director of Yongji County Community Management Service Center, said that by connecting with social resources in the community, the forms and contents of safety education have been enriched, allowing children to experience the importance of safety prevention firsthand and master relevant emergency skills.
To solve the problem of difficult caregiving for parents during the summer, some places have fully introduced social forces and resources to solve the problem of childcare. The Federation of Trade Unions of Ningde City, Fujian Province has issued a notice document on organizing summer daycare classes for employees' children. Communities and units in the city with demand and willingness can organize summer daycare classes for employees' children according to the requirements of the document. Summer daycare classes are organized by street, community, government agencies, enterprises, and other units, and are held through purchasing services from social organizations with certain qualifications, abilities, and experience.
Professor Liu Junhai from the Law School of Renmin University of China stated that in addition to free supervision by schools and communities, third-party institutions can also be introduced to fill the custody gap through partially paid means. To enhance educational hardware facilities and increase the enthusiasm of social forces to participate through voluntary parental participation, standardized fees, and appropriate financial subsidies. If external characteristic teachers or courses are introduced, the fees shall be charged according to the standards formulated by relevant departments. "However, relevant departments should also strengthen supervision, and ensure the safety of personnel, food, property, etc. on campus, to prevent secondary risks."
Wang Xiu, a reader from Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, stated that protecting student safety requires the participation of the whole society. It is possible to guide the organization of more public welfare summer camps for left behind children and other groups. By offering different types of practical and research activities, children can enjoy a happy and safe summer vacation.
Readers also call for sports venues, cultural venues, and other facilities to be more open to students, providing them with more diverse cultural and sports resources. "For example, in terms of drowning prevention, most drowning accidents occur in outdoor rivers, reservoirs, and other places. By building more swimming pools and offering summer swimming classes, the possibility of children swimming in unattended areas in the wild can be reduced," said Zhou Rongguang, a reader in Xianyang, Shaanxi.
