「小朋友你們有去過動物園嗎？」老師以問答的形式與小朋友打開話匣子，「原來今日我們要說的繪本故事名叫《洛洛到動物園去》」，老師以書面語形式朗讀繪本，小朋友一邊指讀，一邊用手勢去扮演大象長長的鼻子! 透過師生之間的互動及聆聽，既可以提高小朋友的學習興趣，亦能夠訓練他們朗讀的技巧。
東華三院徐展堂幼稚園鼓勵從遊戲中學習，「戲劇」令小朋友寓學習於玩樂，提升小朋友的學習興趣。在演戲的過程中，他們能夠連結日常生活的經驗，易地而處地理解別人的感受，運用肢體語言打破自我中心的局限，抒發情緒，將學科知識與品德情操結合，有助小朋友全面發展。
各位可於以下連結欣賞活動花絮：
新學年開始了，祝願各位小朋友身體健康、精乖伶俐，迎接新的學習生活！
而高班亦要開始準備升小選校階段了。
早前，本校莫春蘭校長接受了星島《親子王》專訪，分享本校在幼小銜接的經驗和心得。
家長可細閱以下內文，希望對大家有所幫助！
Written by: Marriage and Family Therapist, Child Play Therapist, Lee Wai Zi
Whenever a child is born, it brings about changes to the family. Many times, parents, caught up in taking care of and disciplining their children, can easily overlook the quality of their own marital life. Over time, marital life becomes reduced to a pile of responsibilities and pressures. I once heard a friend say that when he comes home from work every day, it’s like an assembly line of checking his children’s homework, supervising their studies, while his wife takes care of their meals and routines. By the time the two of them can rest, it’s often late at night. Even if there’s still energy left to exchange a few words with his wife, the topic tends to revolve around their children’s academic performance and achievements. Sometimes, there isn’t even enough time left for their own rest, let alone considering their spouse’s needs.
Many couples facing difficulties in their marriage tend to attribute the problems in their relationship to the birth of their children. Generally, people believe that this is due to differing expectations and parenting methods between parents, or unequal distribution of roles and responsibilities in raising children, leading to conflicts in the relationship. However, the vast majority of couples express that they don’t necessarily need their partner to agree with their thoughts or actions. The key issue is that when they face the stress of parenting and various life pressures, they often don’t feel valued, supported, and accepted by their spouse. This leads both sides into a state of loneliness and helplessness, gradually eroding trust and emotional connection.
Differing educational philosophies and methods between spouses are ordinary and natural. However, during the process of parenting, parents are prone to repetitively using ineffective and destructive methods to deal with their differences, inadvertently creating a negative cycle of interaction within the relationship. For example, a wife might complain in front of her husband that the child doesn’t listen, and might even reproach her husband for not helping to share the responsibilities of household chores and parenting. The wife’s expression of dissatisfaction is aimed at making the husband understand her concerns and troubles, and hoping to receive his support and comfort.
However, husbands often only receive criticism and blame from their wives. In order to protect themselves from getting hurt, they might remain silent or explain and defend themselves repeatedly, hoping for understanding and acceptance from their wives. The more husbands explain, the less valued and understood their wives might feel, leading to more accusations. And the more wives accuse, the more helpless husbands might feel, causing them to further evade and defend. Both spouses are participants in this negative cycle of interaction and victims of this cycle as well. If parents don’t promptly address and resolve the deadlock in their relationship, not only will the problems persist and worsen, but it could also ultimately impact their children.
The well-being of the family and the children relies on a strong emotional connection between the spouses. Therefore, for the sake of themselves and their children, it’s worth spending more time nurturing the love between partners. As long as the marital relationship is harmonious, children can naturally grow up healthy and happy.
撰文：婚姻及家庭治療師、兒童遊戲治療師李慧芝
每當有孩子出世，都會為家庭帶來轉變。很多時候，父母因忙於照顧及管教子女，都會容易忽略自己婚姻生活的質素，久而久之，夫妻生活變得只剩下一堆責任和壓力。筆者曾經聽過一位朋友說，他每天下班回家，都是流水作業式地替子女檢查功課，督導孩子溫習，太太則照顧他們的飲食和作息，到了夫婦倆可以休息的時候，往往已是夜深，即使還有餘力和太太談上幾句，說的都只是子女的學業成績和表現。有時甚至連自己休息的時間尚且不夠，更莫說要關心和回應配偶的需要。
很多婚姻關係出現困難的夫婦，他們都不約而同地認為他們關係出現問題，是由子女出世後開始。一般人會認為，這是因為父母對子女的期望和教育方法不同，又或在培育子女的角色和責任上分配不均，而導致關係的衝突。然而，絕大多數的夫婦卻表示，他們不一定要對方認同自己的想法或做法，問題的關鍵在於當他們面對育兒及各種生活壓力時，往往因為感受不到配偶的重視、支持和接納，以致雙方都陷入孤單和無助的境況，漸漸地破壞彼此間的信任和情感連結。
夫妻間有不同的教育理念和方法，本是很平常和自然的事。但在育兒的過程中，父母容易重複以無效和具破壞性的方法，處理彼此的分歧，令關係不知不覺地形成負向互動循環。例如妻子會在丈夫面前抱怨孩子不聽話，甚至埋怨丈夫沒有幫忙分擔家事和育兒的責任，太太表達不滿的目的是希望丈夫明白自己的憂慮和困擾，並得到丈夫的支持和安慰。
然而，丈夫往往只能接收到太太的批評和指責，而為了保護自己免受傷害，他們或許會默不作聲，或是多番解釋和替自己辯護，期望得到太太的體諒和接納。丈夫愈解釋，太太就愈感到不被重視和明白，因而愈加指責。而太太愈指責，又會令丈夫愈感到無助，並愈加逃避和防衛。
夫婦倆既是這負向互動循環中的一員，又是互動循環下的受害者。假如父母沒有及時正視和處理關係的僵局，不但會令問題持續和惡化，最終也可能會苦了孩子。家庭和孩子的健康，建基於夫婦倆穩固的情感連結。因此，為了自己和孩子，不妨花多點時間孕育與伴侶間的愛情。只要父母婚姻美滿，孩子自然能健康快樂地成長。
你們有看過牙醫的經歷嗎？
對於初接觸的幼兒來説，對檢查牙齒活動充滿好奇心，同時又擔心、緊張。學校透過繪本教學，以《鱷魚怕怕、牙醫怕怕》讓K1幼兒體驗、探索牙醫的工作環境及工具；亦利用戲劇教育的習式讓幼兒代入牙科診所的人、事、物，更令幼兒對牙醫產生學習興趣，亦提高他們接受新事物的能力。
而K1幼兒十分順利完成當日正式的檢查牙齒活動，值得欣賞！同時，亦為一班醫生、護士送上感謝。請大家於以下連結一同欣賞K1幼兒在這個主題上的學習過程！
東華三院徐展堂幼稚園的語文課程以繪本延伸至戲劇教育，透過代入角色及情境讓幼兒理解文字的意思。「戲劇」能令幼兒寓學習於玩樂，提升學習興趣，透過演說訓練提升幼兒說話及肢體語言的表逹技巧，增強自信心。在演戲的過程中，他們能夠連結日常生活的經驗，透過情境的代入，誘發幼兒多角度思考，易地而處地理解別人的感受。我們更設有校本趣味語文教具，讓幼兒可以透過遊戲方式學習詞彙。
本校亦於10月14日設有新生家長導覽會及親子遊藝日，歡迎各位家長和小朋友一同出席。有意參加可於以下連結或掃描二維碼報名。
Written by: Marriage and Family Therapist, Child Play Therapist, Lee Wai Chee
Everyone hopes to find happiness, and parents are certainly no exception. Many times, parents are even willing to sacrifice their own immediate needs and happiness, hoping to exchange them for their children’s “happy life” in the future.
Most parents understand that their children’s future “happiness” is by no means guaranteed one hundred percent. However, many parents believe that not striving today will inevitably lead to failure tomorrow. In addition, the social atmosphere advocates “doing more is better than doing less,” and even considers not doing anything as laziness and passivity. As a result, all parents and children find themselves doing more and more, gradually losing their direction.
In online discussion forums, I often see some parents criticizing society and the education system for putting excessive pressure on children, stifling their growth space. However, on the other hand, they helplessly push their children to do various exercises every day, showing their helplessness and sense of powerlessness. The contradictions and dilemmas faced by parents are understandable, but these fears and anxieties can cause parents to easily miss the insights that children give us.
When a baby is born, they live a simple, direct, and natural life every day. When they are hungry, they eat; when they are full, they sleep; and when they wake up, they play. They explore the world in their own way and interact with the people around them. They laugh heartily when they are happy and cry out loudly when they are sad. Children tell us that human needs are actually quite simple, and as long as these needs are satisfied, they will be happy. It’s just that the adult world has become increasingly complex, and people’s desires have grown, causing adults to forget even their own needs and, as a result, become increasingly unhappy. Ironically, we still assume that we understand the “key” to a “happy life” and teach children how to find happiness.
Today’s society is filled with the anxiety and unease of adults who fear being marginalized by society and worry that their stable lives are threatened. As parents, they are even more concerned about their children’s future lives. In fact, children understand the essence of happiness best because they naturally live freely and at ease. However, somewhere along the way, parents hope that their children can adapt to the distorted rules of the real world as soon as possible, inadvertently erasing their natural and childlike qualities.
A child’s growth takes time. If parents can observe their lives with a calm mind, be patient, slow down, and enjoy every moment spent with their children, they may rediscover that happiness is not in the future but in the present moment.
撰文：婚姻及家庭治療師兒童遊戲治療師李慧芝
人人都希望得到快樂，父母當然不例外。很多時候，父母甚至願意犧牲自己當下的需要和快樂，希望能換取子女日後的「幸福生活」。
大部分父母都明白，孩子將來的「幸福」當然沒有百分之百的保證，然而很多家長都會認為，今天的不努力，必然會導致明日的失敗。加上社會氛圍都鼓吹「有做好過無做，做多好過做少」，甚至認為不做就是懶惰和被動等，結果令所有父母和兒童愈做愈多，也漸漸迷失了方向。
在網絡討論區中，筆者經常看到一些父母一邊批評社會及教育制度過分催谷兒童，扼殺他們的成長空間；但另一邊又無奈地每天督促著子女做各種各樣的練習，其無助和無力感顯而易見。父母所面對的矛盾和兩難是可以理解的，然而這些恐懼和焦慮，都會令父母容易錯過孩子給我們的啟示。
嬰兒呱呱落地，每天過著最簡單、直接和自然的生活。他們餓了便吃，吃飽便睡，睡醒就玩。他們用自己的方式探索這個世界，以及接觸身邊的人。開心的時候開懷大笑，傷心時就放聲大哭。孩子告訴我們，其實人的需要很簡單，只要能夠滿足這些需要，就會過得快樂。只是成年人的世界愈來愈複雜，人的慾望也愈來愈多，為了滿足那些慾望，成年人就連自己的需要都忘記了，因此變得愈來愈不快樂。最諷刺的是，我們還自以為懂得「幸福生活」的竅門，教導孩子怎樣得到快樂。
現今的社會充斥著成年人的焦慮和不安，人們都害怕自己被社會淘汰，擔心安穩的生活受威脅。而作為父母的，就更憂慮孩子日後的生活。其實，孩子最懂得快樂的道理，因為他們本來就活得自然自在，只是不知從何時開始，父母希望孩子能盡早適應現實世界那被扭曲了的遊戲規則，不知不覺地被磨滅了他們本來的自然和童真。
孩子的成長需要時間，假如父母能靜心觀察他們的生活，保持耐心，放慢腳步，享受和孩子相處的每一個片刻，你或許會重新領悟到，快樂不在將來，而是在當下。
撰文：楊明霞中醫師
最近，有家長把女兒患有濕疹的病況上傳至社交網站，相中看到小女孩的手腳紅腫，而且皮膚糜爛，的確我見猶憐。於是，全城的家長也正紛紛分享對付濕疹的秘方，因為不少人也是濕疹的受害者，每逢轉季也會叫苦連天。
濕疹 (eczema) 是一種常見的過敏性皮炎，不具傳染性。中醫稱濕疹為「濕瘡」，是香港常見的皮膚病。濕疹的內在因素包括體質、情志和腑臟功能失調，而外在因素則包括風、濕、熱阻於肌膚。當個人體質較弱及自身免疫系統功能低，風濕熱邪浸淫肌膚，結果會形成濕疹或令濕疹問題更嚴重。濕疹可發於身體任何部位，例如耳、頭、面、手、臍部和小腿等，但卻對稱分佈，患者會感到非常痕癢，當用手搔癢時常引致皮膚糜爛、滲出瘡液，甚至含濃，而且反覆發作，令皮膚表面變得粗糙，瘡痂隆起。要對付濕疹，要從這 3 個小習慣做起：
縮短洗澡時間
當濕疹發作時，患者常會禁不住抓癢。手是我們最容易接觸細菌 ，而且有最多微生物的地方，所以要戒掉經常摸面的壊習慣，以免加重皮膚發炎的機會。同時，患者也不應經常用酒精成分高的產品洗手，因為化學成分會刺激及削弱皮脂膜。除此之外，由於患者的皮膚感到痕癢，所以一般都喜歡洗手和洗澡，時間亦很長，誤以為能夠紓緩痕癢亦感覺上較潔淨。其實，過分清潔反而會破壞皮膚表面的皮脂膜及角質層，令皮膚的天然保護屏障受損，加劇濕疹問題。因此筆者建議患者縮短洗澡時間，最好不超過3分鐘。同時，患者亦應選用低敏性的護膚品和沐浴產品，減低對皮膚的刺激。如果患者的濕疹情況嚴重，筆者建議可只清洗腋下、下身及流汗多位置。
筆者在此介紹一款抗敏的配方給大家，材料有防風六錢、苦參六錢和生甘草三錢，用猛火煲 30 分鐘後，用來沖洗敏感患處，有很好的潤膚止癢功效。
良好的生活和衛生習慣
患者的家居環境需時常清理，而且要勤加換洗床單和貼身衣物。另外，患者宜穿著寬鬆和純棉的衣服，應避免穿著毛料的緊身衣，衣服上更不要殘留洗滌劑等化學成分。至於生活作息方面，患者要早睡早起，不要熬夜和飲食要均衡，加上足夠運動，以提高自身的免疫力，減低誘發濕疹的機會。在運動後，應立即把汗抹乾，替換被汗浸濕的衣物，這樣可以令皮膚保持清潔乾爽。當然，最重要的是保持樂觀的心態，減輕壓力。
戒口有效防濕疹
濕疹的發病與某些食物敏感有密切關係，所以戒口對皮膚敏感的治療十分重要。皮膚病患者在治療期間，均應禁食「發物」。「發物」是指能誘發皮膚病患者出疹，病情加重的食物，發物主要包括海鮮類、牛肉、甜食、辛辣及酒等食物。皮膚病多由 「濕」、「熱」積聚化成「毒」而起，患者的體質一般屬於先天性脾胃虛弱型，當進食過量辛辣和蝦蟹海鮮等高刺激性的食物，又或於夏季大量進食生冷食物，以致濕毒困身，容易引致脾臟運化失常，增加患上濕疹的機會。
Written by：YEUNG Ming Ha, Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Recently, a parent uploaded pictures of their daughter suffering from eczema on a social media platform. Looking at the little girl’s red and swollen hands and feet, and her skin all irritated, indeed, it’s heartbreaking. As a result, parents all over the city are now sharing their secret remedies to deal with eczema because many of them or their children are also affected by eczema, and they often suffer during seasonal changes.
Eczema is a common allergic dermatitis and is not contagious. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), eczema is referred to as “wet sores” and is a prevalent skin condition in Hong Kong. The internal factors contributing to eczema include the individual’s constitution, emotional state, and dysfunction of the body’s organs, while external factors involve wind, dampness, and heat obstructing the skin. When a person has a weaker constitution and a lower immune system, wind, dampness, and heat pathogenic factors may invade the skin, resulting in eczema or exacerbating existing eczema issues. Eczema can occur on any part of the body, such as the ears, head, face, hands, navel, and lower legs, but it usually appears symmetrically. Patients often feel intense itching, and scratching can lead to skin abrasions, oozing of pus, and even infection. The condition tends to recur, making the skin rough and the scabs raised. To deal with eczema, it’s essential to start by addressing these three small habits:
Shorten bathing time.
When eczema flares up, patients often can’t resist scratching. Hands are the most susceptible to bacterial contact and harbor the most microorganisms. Therefore, it’s important to avoid the habit of frequently touching the face to prevent exacerbating skin inflammation. Additionally, patients should refrain from using products with high alcohol content frequently, as the chemical components can irritate and weaken the skin’s natural barrier. Furthermore, due to the itching sensation on their skin, patients tend to wash their hands and take long baths, mistakenly thinking it can relieve itching and provide a sense of cleanliness. However, excessive cleaning can actually damage the skin’s sebum layer and stratum corneum, compromising the skin’s natural protective barrier and worsening eczema problems. Therefore, it is recommended for patients to shorten their bathing time, ideally not exceeding 3 minutes. At the same time, they should choose hypoallergenic skincare and bathing products to minimize irritation to the skin. For severe cases of eczema, it is suggested to only cleanse the armpits, lower body, and areas prone to sweating.
Here, I am introducing an anti-allergic formula: The ingredients include Fang Feng (防風) 6 qian, Ku Shen (苦參) 6 qian, and Sheng Gan Cao (生甘草) 3 qian. Boil them with strong fire for 30 minutes, then use it to rinse the sensitive areas. It has excellent moisturizing and itch-relief effects.
Good lifestyle and hygiene habits.
Patients’ living environment needs regular cleaning, and they should frequently change bedsheets and close-fitting clothes. Moreover, patients should wear loose and cotton clothes, avoid wearing tight clothes made of wool, and ensure no chemical residues like detergents remain on their clothes. Regarding daily routines, patients should go to bed and wake up early, avoid staying up late, maintain a balanced diet, exercise adequately to boost their immune system, and reduce the chances of triggering eczema. After exercising, they should immediately wipe away sweat and change into dry clothes to keep the skin clean and dry. Of course, the most crucial aspect is maintaining a positive mindset to reduce stress.
Dietary Restrictions Effectively Prevent Eczema
The onset of eczema is closely related to certain food sensitivities, so dietary restrictions are essential in the treatment of skin sensitivity. During the treatment of skin diseases, patients should avoid consuming “triggering foods.” “Triggering foods” are those that can induce rashes and worsen the condition in skin disease patients. These triggering foods mainly include seafood, beef, sweets, spicy foods, and alcoholic beverages. Skin diseases are often caused by the accumulation of “dampness” and “heat,” leading to the formation of “toxins.” Patients with skin conditions usually have a constitution characterized by congenital weakness of the spleen and stomach. When they consume excessive amounts of spicy foods, shrimp, crab, seafood, and other highly stimulating foods, or when they consume a large amount of raw and cold food during the summer, it can lead to the accumulation of damp toxins in the body. This can easily cause abnormalities in spleen and stomach functions, increasing the likelihood of developing eczema.
