Susie Zhang
Bio:
Susie Zhang is a certified Lead Trainer in Positive Discipline for Early Childhood Educators, Positive Discipline in the Classroom, Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way, and Keep the Joy in Relationships, by the Positive Discipline Association. In the past 12 years, she has trained thousands of Positive Discipline parenting and classroom facilitators and spoke at numerous events to parents and teachers. She worked with kindergartens, schools, and educational institute in China as an educational consultant to implement Social Emotional Learning/Positive Discipline school wide.
About the Visit to AISG:
Susie Zhang hosted an in-person parent presentation, two in Chinese and one in English, in an offsite location in downtown Guangzhou. AISG Parents of all ages were invited. She focused on Alternatives to Punishment: A Positive Approach to Discipline.
As parents, we all hope our children will have a bright future. But what does future look like? What kind of situation will our children face? What type of talents would the society need? How will our children find their place in the world? What could I do to provide them proper family education to help them face future challenges?
In this 90-minutes presentation, Susie discussed the long-term goal of family education, and reveal what Social Emotional Learning is, as well as its importance. Through Positive Discipline experiential activities, she invited parents into children’s world, to explore two fundamental principles and three practical advices of reaching the long-term goal. Parents shall establish mutual respectful relationship with their children, empowering and encouraging children, instead of punishing or pampering.
Specifically, the parents learned:
One long-term goal of family education: Foster future citizens with inner strength and social interest.
Two fundamental principles: We teach who we are; Understand beliefs behind behaviors.
Three practical tools: Do VS Don’t, Empowering vs Enabling, Kindness and firmness at the same time.