Engagement Session on “Mental Health of Children and Positive Parenting”
22 April 2024
The Commission on Children (CoC) held a stakeholder engagement event on the theme of “Mental Health of Children and Positive Parenting” on 22 April 2024. With children’s mental health and positive parenting as the focus, it aimed to encourage positive parenting, and cultivate a loving environment conducive to children’s growth, thereby enhancing their mental health.
The engagement event featured a parent-child film "Sound of Silence", sharing of parenting experience, group games and parent-child interactive activities, with the participation of about 120 primary school students and their parents. The Secretary for Labour and Welfare and Vice-chairperson of the CoC, Mr Chris Sun, joined and listened to views from children and parents on how to improve physical and mental well-being through interactive activities. Representatives of the Education Bureau and the Department of Health also attended.
Under the “Walk with Kids” thematic campaign of the CoC, the stakeholder engagement event is the first event this year. Non-official members of the CoC assisted in moderating the group games and parent sharing sessions. Children were encouraged to speak up and express their emotional needs, and understand and embrace their emotions. Parents were offered advice on how to establish positive thinking for children and cater for their mental health.
With the support of The WEMP Foundation, Dr Charles Yu, an expert in applied psychology and counseling, shared effective parent-child communication methods with parents, and Mr Remus Kwok, an expert in positive education, hosted the parent-child interactive session. Each participants had also received a set of emotion cards produced by The WEMP Foundation introducing the various emotions and encouraging students and parents to share their feelings.
Observations and Stakeholders' Views Gathered
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