The lessons have been well received by children and adults. "Some parents also attend nutrition lessons. Previously porridge and leafy vegetables were a must for three meals a day, but now noodles, tomatoes and potatoes are in their diets," says Wang Hui, vice chairwoman of the local Women's Federation.
Wang has an online chat group of 200 local women from all walks of life, offering various courses for children. For example, a female procurator can raise awareness of sexual offenses and a kindergarten teacher can teach singing and dancing.
In recent years, China has raised investment in rural education and school attendance rates have risen. However, the need for family education on child development is increasingly pressing.
Among 739,000 Hubei children aged 16 and under whose parents live and work away from home, more than 90 percent live with grandparents while 11,100 are left alone.
Surveys in pilot villages show more than 90 percent of children say "watching TV" is their hobby and many say their parents' hobby is mahjong.
Zeng says it is vital to relieve children of mental impoverishment. Some children speak only a little aged 3 or 4 as a result of lack of parental care. Grandparents usually have little awareness, so changing children rather than their carers makes childhood poverty reduction unsustainable.
At the end of each year, adults who work in cities come back to their villages. Since 2017, Pan Lan, a senior psychological consultant based in Wuhan, has organized reunion parties in poor villages. Children hand 12 letters for the whole year to their parents and parents are asked to write a few words to read to their children, but Chinese parents can be reserved.
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