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JUST LITTLE STORIES: HOW CAMPUSIMPACT PREPARED ME FOR LIFE IS YOUR CHILD HAPPY?

CODING WITH YOUR KID: DISCOVERING OUR HIDDEN TALENT

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What a jam-packed second quarter this has been!

On top of running two parenting workshops, our Chairman has also been making regular guest appearances on radio stations to educate parents and provide advice on effective parenting methods.

For youths, CampusImpact ran a family-bonding workshop, Coding with Your Kid, in partnership with Cognizant, during which two exceptional young people caught our eye. Look out for their story and how the coding workshop brought out the confidence and curiosity of our students.

We have also been mentoring students from Nan Chiau High School, Hwa Chong Institution and Anderson Junior College under the Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes Project, and it is such a joy to see the passion and creativity of these young people who are championing the cause of less-privileged youths.

But what has made our work most meaningful is helping the young people from families which have been struck by challenging circumstances. In just the last few months, two families approached CampusImpact for help after their breadwinners suffered strokes. We immediately lent them a helping hand, so that the students would still have access to a conducive environment and receive academic and moral support from our volunteer tutors during this tough time.

Helping youths to brave through the challenges of growing up has always been our purpose. Thank you for being our partner in this meaningful work of preparing the next generation.

If you know of any youths or parents who need help, or if you would like to help them in any way, please feel free to contact us.

真是一个忙碌的第二季度！

除了进行两项亲子工作坊 之外，我们的主席也常常到广播电台演讲及传授家长有效的育儿方法。

与 Cognizant 合作，I 青少年也为我们的少年进行了有利家庭凝聚力的 “Coding with your Kid” 电脑编码的工作坊。在工作坊的进行当中，有两位出众的少年引起了我们的注意。 在故事小点滴里，可阅读到”Coding with your kid” 电脑编码工作坊如何带出了学生们的好奇心与自信心。

在 “Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes Project” 的计划下，我们也看到了一群来自南桥中学，华侨中学及安德迅初级学院的学生为帮助一群较不幸的青少年所展现的的热忱以及创意

我们的工作也因为能够帮助到不幸的家庭而变得更有意义。在过去的几个月，有两户家庭向 I 青少年寻求援助，原因是因为家庭成员中风病倒了，而这一些病倒的家庭成员往往都是家里的主要经济支柱。我们立即给予他们协助，确保孩子们能够在有利的环境里学习以及在心理和学业上获得我们的义工的援助。

长期以来，我们旨在于帮助我们的青少年克服成长岁月的挑战. 在预备新一代的过程当中，我要感谢大家成为我们的伙伴。

如果你们知道有哪一位少年或家长需要帮助，或者是你想要帮助他们，请大家与我们联系。

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Cheng Yi radiates positivity, joy and excitement to learn. It is no wonder he is one of the top scorers that CampusImpact has

produced in 2017. In April, Cheng Yi started pursuing his diploma in Media and Production Design, offered by Republic Polytechnic. He entered the course under Direct School Admission, with a O level score of 14 points. In our “Just Little Stories”, Cheng Yi shares about his three-year journey with CampusImpact, and how he gained the qualities for success under the guidance of his tutors.

“The small tuition classes allowed me the chance of having better concentration in my studies. I found the environment to be beneficial for those who need a quiet environment in order to study. CampusImpact is also full of helpful teachers who helped me by providing supportive feedback and recommendations on study methods and they also helped me by guiding me through the difficulties I had in my work. Teachers such as Mr Shu Hearn, Mr Raymond Koh, Mr Solomon, Mr Welson and many others are dedicated to help all youths to reach their potential and they have always given me the encouragement to work harder for my exams, and eventually this helped me to do well in my national exams.

The staff in CampusImpact are really friendly too, and they also allowed me to borrow books in the centre to study and read while I waited for my classes to start or when I came over to do some self-revision in the classrooms.”

承毅一直都抱着积极和快乐的学习态度。在2017年，成绩优越的他，是i青少年的骄傲。同年四月 ， 承毅 开始在共和理工学院修读传媒与制作设计课程。他以O 水准14积分的傲人成绩在直接收生计划下 “Direct School Admission”进入此课程。在我们的故事小点滴里， 承毅 分享了他在i青少年的三年里如何通过我们的义工老师从“中小学辅助计划”中受惠。

“小组的补习班让我能够有机会集中学习。我发现到i青少年中心清静的环境有利于学习。i青少年也有很多很热心的老师。他们都在学习上给予我非常有建设性的反馈，以及提供推荐一些学习方法和在我遇到困难时提供辅导。Shu Hearn, Raymond Koh, Solomon和Welson和众多位老师都尽心尽力地帮助青少年发挥他们的潜能。他们一直鼓励我努力向上，最终帮助我在会考中考取好成绩

i青少年的员工也非常友善，在等待上课的当儿，或者是当我来到中心自习时，他们允许我阅读中心里的书。

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Stories姚 承 毅 Y E W C H E N G Y I

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IS YOUR

CHILD HAPPY ?In our fast-paced urban life, we face pressures from work, from our competitive society and our high costs of living. These often cause us to vent our frustrations on our children, causing them to get caught up in this negativity. This will affect their studies and development.

Most parents believe that good grades and good careers bring happiness. Yet, it is actually happiness that helps our children achieve success. As parents, our job is to ensure an ideal atmosphere at home to help our children experience happiness in a positive and healthy environment.

Consider the following suggestions:

1. Loving parents give children a sense of security and happiness

2. Playing together outdoors not only helps children relieve stress, it also provides children with new opportunities to learn and exercise creativity 3. Studies have shown that eating together and communicating as a family help children become emotionally stable, optimistic and positive

4. Seek to understand and ask probing questions to guide your child’s development

These are simple steps we can take to help our children experience the simple pleasures of life.

在这样一个忙绿的城市生活中，我们面对工作压力、社会比较的压力、生活费的压力，多少也会把压力、急

躁不耐烦的心情转移到孩子的身上，使孩子们也被卷进这种消极负面的氛围中。这会影响他们的学习与成长进度。

一般父母都认为好的学业、事业才能带来幸福；恰相反的，真正的是有幸福感的力量，才能带出有成就的孩子。所以，父母在家中需要刻意的注入一些幸福的质素和氛围，使孩子有一个健康正面的成长环境。

请参考下面的提示…

1. 夫妻的相爱，给孩子带来幸福和安全感。

2. 多一些户外的玩耍时间，不只可以松懈心情，也使孩子在游戏中产生新的学习和创意。

3. 经常全家一起吃晚餐，交流陪伴。有研究报告，与家人更多相处的孩子，情绪比没有的稳定得多，而且比较乐观，积

极。

4. 多用“了解”的角度及提问，来引导孩子的成长。

这些都是我们可以给孩子“简单的幸福”是生活中容易执行的。

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Madam Anisuzan, 40, used to worry for her son’s future. The first thing he would do after coming home from school was to lie down and sleep. He was unmotivated to go to school, because he did not like writing

and taking exams, and, consequently, did not do well academically.

But on March 24, Madam Anisuzan was pleasantly surprised to realise that her son, 14-year-old Muhammad Syazwan, was the best student in the Coding With Your Kid workshop, as he finished each of the tasks way ahead of the other participants.

Beaming with pride, Madam Anisuzan said: “I saw a new side to my son today.”

He had breezed through the various tasks, displaying creativity, flexibility, and clarity in thinking as he exercised his problem-solving skills. Syazwan, who is a Secondary Two student in the Normal Academic Stream in Yishun Secondary School, said: “My trainer made me feel important to him. I enjoyed bonding with my trainer and interacting with him. Maybe I will try a career in coding. Or, maybe one day, I will become an inventor.”

Together with Syazwan’s family, there were eight other families participating in the two-hour workshop, during which participants learned to code with Microbits. Trainers were attached to each family, so that every participant would have the attention and support they needed.

Another participant in the workshop, Chua Hui Qin, 16, a Secondary Four Express Stream student, signed up for the workshop because she was reading a book about someone who had hacked into a system, and was curious to see what coding was all about. Her mother, Ms Monica Loh, 45, said: “I was glad to see how she has grown up. I used to think I need to spoon-feed her, cook for her, and do household chores for her, but from this workshop, I have seen how independent she is.

“Although we already spend time regularly having meals together as a family, the workshop gave me the chance to enter my daughter’s world, as she taught me things I didn’t know.”

以往，40岁的Anisuzan 女士一直都在担心她的儿子的将来。从学校一回到家，她的儿子就会马上躺在床上睡觉。因为他不喜欢读书和考试，所以他抗拒上学，因此他的学校成绩一直都不理想

但在3月24日当天，Anisuzan 女士发现到她的儿子， Muhammad Syazwan， 是电脑编码工作坊“ Coding With Your Kid”中最佳的学生。他比其他的学生更快地完成工作坊中所给予的任务。这对 Anisuzan 来说，是一个惊喜。

Anisuzan 满面笑容的说：“今天，我看见了我儿子的新一面”

Muhammad Syazwan 轻松地完成各项任务，在解决问题时表现出创意能力，灵活性和清晰的思维。在Yishun Secondary School就读中二普通学术班的他说：“课程指导员让我觉得自己对他很重要。能与课程指导员交流，我很开心。或许将来，我会试着当一位电脑编码员，或者成为发明家。”有八户与 Syazwan 的家庭参与了这项两个小时的以Microbits编码工作坊。每一户家庭有一位指导员陪伴，以确保每位参加者都能得到足够的帮助与指导。

另一位工作坊的参加者是16岁的Chua Hui Qin，是一名在学校就读中四快捷班的学生。她参加工作坊的原因是因为她有机会阅读到一本关于骇客侵入电脑系统的书本，这引起了她对电脑编码的好奇心。她的母亲是45岁的 Monica Loh 女士。她说: “我很开心看到她的成长。我以前认为，她一直很依赖我，但是从这工作坊当中，我看见了她的独立”

“虽然我们一家人常常一起吃饭，但是此工作坊让我有机会进入我女儿的世界。她也教会了我不懂的东西。”

Coding With You r Kid:

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Youth for CausesCTITI-YMCA

If I must use two words to describe my Youth For Causes (YFC) journey with CampusImpact, they would be “unforgettable” and “irreplaceable”! Although I have served in other volunteerism programmes, I’d never been part of one that allowed me to learn and love, both at the same time. I wouldn’t deny that I had doubts as to why I had even embarked on the YFC programme because I was already drowning in the academic rigour of school work. Nevertheless, these doubts were cleared a few weeks into this service learning programme.

Learn: Initially, I joined YFC in hopes that I would be able to make an indelible imprint on others. I have, however, since come to realise that the person who went through the transformative process was none other than myself. During one of the workshops, I was slapped hard with the challenge of having to mitigate a conflict between two children.

The negative feeling of the conflict spread to other children, which made continuing the workshop hard as there was obvious tension in the air. I was

at my wit’s end as neither I nor my team mates had prior experience in working with children. Fortunately, things got better as we managed to placate the children by talking to them individually. This challenge taught me that sometimes life needs to kick us to the ground before we can learn how to stand up even stronger. Through this journey, I have learnt so much more than just how to raise funds for the VWO, I also picked up soft skills like conflict management, leadership and teamwork and hard skills like writing and pitching proposals.

Love: Another lesson I have kept dear to me is a simple one, yet I often experience difficulty putting it into practice. Through the children at CampusImpact, I was reminded of our innate ability to love one another without inhibition when Yi Jie’s asked: “Will you come again?”. He loved us and let us into his heart so quickly, so freely. I also learnt that love is an accumulation of the smallest actions of giving: Isaac helping us with the glue guns when we were having trouble, Yu Jing sacrificing her toy for a girl who wanted a cuter one, and so many other memories which I will never forget. Their ready acceptance towards me made me feel at ease and so empowered to spread love to others.

Of course, the lessons come with a price. Serving as a volunteer is tiring, time-consuming, and stressful. This YFC journey has taught me that working with children is more than just fun and games. But, at the end of the day, the

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You are experiencing stress because your child has passed on his/her stress to you.

1. Deal with your own stress first

Did you know that stress is “contagious”? Try to relax first, or you may end up passing on even more stress to your child.

2. Discover the source of your child’s stress

Is your child stressed out because of the amount of homework, because he/she cannot understand what the teacher is saying during class, cannot focus, or because he/she does not know how to do homework?

Or is the stress coming from a poor relationship with classmates, or because he/she does not have friends in school?

3. Seek solutions

Understanding the problem helps you effectively help your child.

Looking at the situation through your child’s eyes will make it easier for him/her to accept your suggestions and solutions.

你的孩子把压力传给你了， 所以你也有压力了！

1）先处理你自己的压力

放松，压力是会互“相传染”的，你的孩子看到你的样子，他会更压力。

2）看他的压力来源

功课 - 听不懂、不能集中精；功课不会作、

与同学关系不好、没有朋友

3）寻求方法处理

了解了的问题所在就可以比较有效和理想的去帮助你的孩子了。

是以孩子的处境和角度来看和明白他们，他们才会考虑接受你的建议或方法。

Help! My child is stressed out from school!

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