{"id":1138,"date":"2013-01-11T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1138"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:08:18","slug":"hong-kong-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1138","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hong Kong<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Kids<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>As a teenager in Hong Kong, I think that some of my friends are \u2018Hong Kong kids\u2019.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are spoiled and rely too much on their parents. They have low emotional intelligence and vulnerable to adversity.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, they are not born to be a \u2018Hong Kong kid\u2019, their parents cannot deny their responsibilities for this consequence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Nowadays, most of the parents are overprotective. They focus on their children\u2019s academic performances. Therefore, they send their children to different tutorial classes or employ a private tutor at home.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They will try their best to help their children to achieve excellent results in academic performance, but they ignore the importance of the development of emotional intelligence. This is why many Hong Kong students have high <\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">intelligence quotient<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> but low emotional intelligence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Moreover, most of the parents over-protect their children.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>As many families only have one child, many parents are \u2018helicopter parents\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">They try to protect and monitor their children all the time. They seldom let their children make their own choices. They easily make complaints about the schools and the teachers. They won\u2019t let their children face any challenges and difficulties. This is why many Hong Kong teenagers are vulnerable to adversity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In addition, Hong Kong students are too busy so they do not have time for self-reflection. According to a recent research, many children join four to six interest classes or extra-curricula activities arranged by their parents.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their parents hope that their children can be value-added after joining different activities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, many Hong Kong students have less private time. They are so busy and do not have time for self-reflection so they never know their problems. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>To conclude, it is important to let \u2018Hong Kong kids\u2019 know their problems and make any necessary changes. However, we should not only blame the kids. Educational programmers should be provided to both parents and children in order to help them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I strongly believe that I am not a \u2018Hong Kong kid\u2019.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am independent and well-prepared to face challenges because my parents teach me and guide me patiently but never over-protect me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore by using correct methods, the attitudes of Hong Kong students can be changed and they won\u2019t be \u2018Hong Kong kids\u2019.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hong Kon<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kid<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><\/span>As a teenager in Hong Kong, I think that some of my friends are \u2018Hong Kong kids\u2019.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><\/span>They are spoiled and rely too much on their parents. They have low emotional intelligence and vulnerable to adversity.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><\/span>However, they are not born to be a \u2018Hong Kong kid\u2019, their parents cannot deny their.........<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1138\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-34"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}