"Father, it is really difficult for you to let your son minister do this!"
In gender education, whether it is family or school, there has never been a gentle transition, and the two extremes make people feel at a loss and laugh and cry.
To this end, we visited some staff members of the Family Planning Commission, who are committed to peer education for people aged 10-24, just to solve a common transitional problem.
Gu Yifei
Students of Shanghai University of Science and Technology, volunteers of Shanghai Youth Healthy Sunshine Companion.
Take advantage of three years in college, two hours a week, and stick to the front line of peer education and health promotion.
What kind of people can be volunteers in our peer education for teenagers?
The conditions are not particularly harsh. First of all, he needs to have correct gender awareness and values. Second, pay attention to methods. Once I introduced the use of condoms, and a volunteer casually took out condoms without paying attention to the wording, which made some girls very disgusted. Due to the use of props such as bananas in the demonstration, some girls can't accept the use of very humorous or humorous language. Before we volunteer, we usually receive a long training, including how to give lectures and what to pay attention to in the process. Professionals will teach us, which is another condition for us to become volunteers.
If students of the same age or younger generation, especially girls, may be a little shy when talking about gender issues, how to break this barrier?
Most female students think this course is very useful in college. Because now everyone has a sense of self-defense and needs sexual knowledge. For those students who can't accept it, we will first make them something similar to an ice-breaking game to relieve their psychological tension or shyness. After we get to know each other, they will be more receptive.
Before you became a volunteer, did you have this ice-breaking process psychologically?
Our lecturers at that time were all very amiable. My most stressful experience should be my first class as a lecturer. I'm nervous in the face of college students I've never met, and it's the first class. I was worried at first, because after all, I was standing on the stage as a lecturer. However, it was later discovered that, after all, peers were all taught with peers, including brothers and sisters. What I said is also very practical, and the relationship between lecturers and classmates will be very good. Even in the first class, the students below respect me very much.
Can you share your most impressive experience in peer education activities?
Our Shanghai Family Planning Association co-sponsored the Youth Health Host Contest. As a college student, I gave a five-minute trial lecture that time. Previous competitors were social workers from all districts and counties in Shanghai. After listening to their speeches, I felt particularly powerful and deeply felt my own shortcomings. They are very experienced.
What is the current attitude of college students towards adolescent health education?
There have been a lot of big news in the past two years, especially the tragedies caused by girls' weak sense of self-prevention or unexpected pregnancy, so I think peer education is very necessary and indispensable. The perspective of peer education is between our peers. Generally speaking, kinder than the teacher.
Is there a small-scale form of one-on-one, three-on-four or even one-on-one problem solving in the big class you just mentioned?
Yes, I am doing a peer education project in my club. I once set up a psychological corner to serve some students in need. It will provide services to everyone in that place regularly every week. We are sitting in the classroom with two or three lecturers waiting. In two hours, different students will come in to ask questions and solve their puzzles and questions based on adolescence.