Lecturer: Yang Xiong, head of Institute for Sociological Research and Juvenile Research Institute under Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Time: Nov. 30, 2014 (Sunday) 9:30 a.m.
Place: Go through the west gate of Shanghai Library to 2F Lecture Hall (No. 1555 Huaihai Road (M))

Parents would feed their children with organic food, because such food is naturally grown, without being polluted. Cultivating children should also be an organic process rather than accelerating their ripening against nature. In fact, whether the concept of “losing at the starting line” or other various popular beliefs, all are accelerating the ripening of children. Cultivating children is a slow process; to accelerate their growth would only harm their bodies and minds. In this lecture, Yang Xiong, head of Institute for Sociological Research and Juvenile Research Institute under Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, will communicate with parents on how to cultivate their children in an organic way, so that they will not lose a carefree childhood too early. 　

Yang Xiong, head of Institute for Sociological Research and Juvenile Research Institute under Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, researcher, doctor of sociology, and head of Shanghai Children Development Research Center and Shanghai Family Education Research Center. Research direction: sociology of the youth, research on only child and intergenerational relationship, family education, and sex education for teenagers. He is the responsible person of significant subjects including “Research on National Juvenile Moral Education Testing System” (a significant subject of National Philosophy and Sociology Planning Office in 2008) and “Research on the Compilation of the Syllabus of National Family Education” (a significant subject of All China Women’s Federation and China Family Education Society during the “11th Five-year Plan”). He has written more than 30 books, including Unscrambling the Syllabus of National Family Education (chief editor), Educational Cooperation: Research on School, Family and Society 3-in-One Education System, Research on the Evolution of Chinese Youth, Let Children Be Happy, and To Be Parents on a Higher Starting Point.