Boarding or accompanying students, this is a very difficult problem for parents of every young student.
Parents are reluctant to send their children to host families early. They don't know if their children can adapt to the life of host families.
How do we make a trade-off? The Victorian Department of Education and training gave an analysis a few days ago.
Reading advantage
1. Help the child settle down quickly
In a new environment, children need to make new friends as soon as possible, master knowledge in a second language, adapt to the new way of life, and psychological stress will follow. In this case, if you're worried about your child's self-care, communication, and emotional regulation, reading is a safe way to help your child settle down quickly.
During this important transition period, parents can not only be chefs and drivers of their children, but also their best counselors and best friends.
During the study, the accompanying parents can also communicate closely with the school through the Chinese-speaking teachers or assistants in the school, understand their children's problems in a timely manner, and work together with the school teachers and children to solve the problems.
2. Parents can also experience life in Australia.
Parents who send their children out of the country can't help but worry that their children are exposed to Western culture, their habits and values are different, and children and parents are becoming more and more difficult to understand each other. Parents who choose to read with their children can experience life in Australia with their children. Learn about the local people's lifestyle, interests, values, and so on.
In Australia's diverse cultural environment, you may slowly find yourself more inclusive and life more interesting.
3. Experience Australian culture and nature together.
Victoria's rich and colorful cultural life and magnificent natural scenery are also well worth experiencing with your children and promoting a close parent-child relationship. Christmas, White Night, Momba, Film Festival, Food Festival, Arts Festival, Australian Football match, Melbourne Racing Festival and other festival activities throughout the year, every month there are various wonderful activities.
Victoria also has unlimited natural scenery, such as Oceania Road, Monington Peninsula, Dantonne range, Ara Valley, Philip Island, Spusland Island, Gillon, Bellarini and many other great places to explore with your children.
Pay attention to the early reading, parents and children far away in foreign countries must rely on each other, parents leave their homes to Australia to accompany the inevitable sacrifice, and children facing the challenges of the new environment is also a lot of stress. However, two people live together in a strange environment when the conflict is inevitable. Therefore, after the conflict between the two sides must be peaceful communication, do not let bad feelings continue to affect themselves. Parents can not accompany children to 18 years of age, in a short period of time, cherish the time together.
Boarding advantage
1. Increased independence of children
Although host families also enthusiastically welcome and settle down their children from afar, they are less "child-friendly" than their parents themselves. To make a child independent is not a matter of concern and companionship.
In host families, children who are separated from their blood parents learn to do laundry, cook, communicate, plan their lives, and really grow up to be an adult.
In fact, children's potential and independence are not to be underestimated. In the eyes of the parents, the child is always a child, and in the child psychology, the parents are always the one who listen to their own coquetry.
Therefore, it is wise to hand over the children to the host family and to communicate with the school co-host family on a regular basis.
2, conducive to language progress
Language is the first problem that every student studying abroad must overcome, and it is also the basic ability of students to exercise for a long time.
In host families, English is the first language, which creates a good language environment for children. Children can live in a complete English environment and often receive help from host families, thus rapidly improving their language skills.
Host families actively communicate with their children, communicate regularly with schools, and help their children in learning and socializing as much as possible and make pertinent suggestions.
3. Enter into lifelong friendship
In the host family, the children not only get to know the host family quickly, but also make the children understand the cultural background of the child, as well as the Australian customs and local life. More importantly, both sides will be able to understand each other's personal interests in the long term.
Therefore, a lifelong friendship can be concluded through boarding children and host families. Many students still go back to the host family after leaving the host family, and the host family will also care about the student's recent situation from time to time.
pay attention to
The choice of a host family is about the children's quality of life in Australia and cannot be sloppy. Victorian public school teachers choose standard host families personally in the school community, and parents can rest assured. Every year, the school arranges at least two homestay visits to ensure that host families provide good living conditions for their children. In addition, communication with host families is also very important. Different life habits, different values, different family conditions, differences in life or not are normal, only with an inclusive mentality of continuous communication can ensure a happy relationship.
