Seocho-gu Hosts Relay Parenting Lectures with Childcare Mentor Professor Chosunmi

Seocho-gu, Seoul (Mayor Jeon Seong-su) held the ‘2023 Second Half Seocho-gu Relay Parent Lectures’ at the Seocho-gu Office Auditorium on the 15th.

To commemorate ‘World Children’s Day,’ the district is hosting relay lectures every Wednesday throughout November focusing on the development, emotions, and characteristics of children. The purpose is to enhance children’s rights through understanding children and adolescents and to create happy Seocho parents together with their children.

The lectures proceeded in the order of ▲photography ▲introduction of the speaker ▲‘Talk Concert’ with the Seocho-gu Mayor. The third-week lecture, featuring Professor Cho Sun-mi, was held in a special talk concert format with a total of 250 parents attending. Parent mentor Professor Cho Sun-mi provided clear solutions to concerns and questions about raising children that parents had submitted in advance.

Topics such as ▲understanding children with different temperaments ▲relationships with children who have different tendencies from oneself ▲understanding the minds of adolescents were addressed with practical advice on vivid concerns parents actually experience with their children, increasing satisfaction.

In particular, the UNICEF Korea Committee visited this lecture to benchmark the educational programs promoted in the ‘Child-Friendly City Seocho.’

Ms. Lee, who attended with her middle school children, said, “I had many concerns about my relationships with my two children while raising siblings, but it was very helpful to hear advice through real cases in today’s lecture,” adding, “I now feel confident that I can do well going forward.”

Meanwhile, the Seocho-gu Relay Parent Lectures began on the 1st with Professor Kim Bung-nyeon from Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, followed by an expert lecture by Director Noh Gyu-sik of the Study Brain Research Institute on the 8th. On the 22nd, ‘Kim Mi-kyung, CEO of MKYU,’ will give a lecture on healthy communication with children, and on the last day, the 29th, Professor Kim Kyung-il from Ajou University’s Department of Psychology will give a lecture on understanding developmental characteristics.

Mayor Jeon Seong-su said, “We prepared the relay parent lectures to commemorate last year’s UNICEF Child-Friendly City certification,” adding, “I hope this lecture provided Seocho parents with a time to thoroughly resolve the concerns they had while raising their children.”

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