Sanqin***Sanqin Network News (Reporter Wang Jiaoli).A few days ago, young writer Chen Weijun launched a new work of children's literature "I want to be your pride", focusing on the mental health of teenagers, focusing on the growth troubles faced by teenagers under the "spiritual storm", such as peer pressure, family expectations, and self-denial. The book was published and distributed by the People's Medical Publishing House, and was selected as a recommended reading list for preschool and primary and secondary school students in the winter vacation of 2024 by grade of "100 classes and 1000 people" at the beginning of its listing.
Young writer Chen Weijun said that "I Want to Be Your Pride" is the eleventh novel he created**. The protagonist Li Xiaobei is an ordinary primary school student, he is sensible and well-behaved, but he always lives under the pressure of "comparison", in the eyes of parents and teachers, his twin brother Li Xiaodong is a typical "perfect child", and all kinds of comparisons are quietly happening ......Li Xiaobei is looking for personal value in the midst of loss, and the dream that he once suffered ridicule is gradually approaching him. In the end, with his own efforts and the support and help of others, he realized his dream of writing and reconciled with himself and his family.
The reporter learned that in the book "I Want to Be Your Pride", Chen Weijun used his personal writing experience as a blueprint to focus on the children who were invisibly compared, and conveyed his encouragement and concern for the children through the book: every ordinary child has its shining points and can become the pride of their parents.
It is worth mentioning that "I Want to Be Your Pride" comes with "What should I do? "Psychological Self-Help Handbook for Children". The manual is written by Professor Lin Hong, a doctor and a family teacher, and a child psychiatrist at Peking University Sixth Hospital (Institute of Mental Health), and extracts the mental health problems commonly encountered by adolescents from the plot for detailed guidance. Young readers can carry out "psychological self-help" by comparing the content, substituting characters, and connecting their own lives. All the psychological problems covered in the manual are derived from the content of "I want to be your pride"**, which is divided into four parts: "Personal Dilemma", "Pressure on Campus", "Troubles from Family" and "Big Society and Little Me".
Professor Lin Hong praised the book "I Want to Be Your Pride", which she believes is a book that can be read by parents and children. For children, they can follow Li Xiaobei's ups and downs to experience how to understand themselves, express themselves boldly, activate the support system of family, school and society, and help them realize their dreams; For parents, they can put themselves into different parental roles to experience how adults' words and deeds profoundly affect the healthy growth of children around them; This is also a good book for school teachers and child psychology professionals, which can help us understand how the family, school, and social system interact in the growth of children, affecting the healthy growth of every child.
Feng Li, director of the Children's Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Studio of the People's Medical Publishing House, said that the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission and other 17 departments jointly issued the "Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving Student Mental Health in the New Era (2023-2025)" in April 2023, marking that strengthening student mental health has become a national strategy, placed in a more prominent and important position, and made comprehensive arrangements for student mental health work. In this context, the People's Medical Publishing House launched the "New Era Good Teenagers' Mental Health Growth Series", among which the children's literature "I want to be your pride" is the key work, and will continue to cooperate with young writer Chen Weijun to publish more children's literature that pays attention to the mental health of teenagers.