【推荐1】With fingers and wrists wrapped in medicated tape, Zhang Guimei, founder and principal of the first free high school for girls in China, was presented with the July 1 Medal on Tuesday.

Zhang met her husband in Dali and worked as a teacher in a local school. Unfortunately, her husband died of cancer not long after their marriage. Sadly, Zhang decided to leave this place with which she was too familiar. Hence, she volunteered to teach at a middle school in Huaping, a poverty-stricken county located in the mountains.

Over time, Zhang witnessed the gender gap in education up close in relatively poor rural areas. Urban and rural students already faced unequal access to quality education, and the traditional belief of male superiority only worsened rural girls’ situation. She discovered that many female students would just disappear after studying for a while and some girls were even pulled out of class just before the college entrance exam. The reasons varied: to pay for the younger brother’s tuition, the girl’s parents would have her quit and return home to earn money; the family received engagement gifts...

In 2002, Zhang came up with an idea which, to many, seemed crazy: to found a free high school for girls. Six years later, with help from the Party and the local government and personal donations, she founded the Huaping All-Girls High School. With the goal of never letting a girl fall behind in schooling, Zhang often works overtime despite suffering from several kinds of illnesses. She has walked to almost every household deep in the mountains, talking to the parents about the importance of education for girls.

The efforts paid off. Over the past 13 years, her school has sent 1,800 girls to university. “To educate a girl is to change the destiny of three generations. A cultured, responsible mother won't let her daughter drop out of school,” Zhang said.

【推荐3】Most parents can relate to how difficult it is to send a child to school for the first time. But for Deb on Parental Guidance,sending her daughter off to class when she was just four felt way too soon.

“I looked at her and thought, ‘Do I really have to send you to school?’ Deb, 46, tells TV WEEK. “I started to do some research and found out about home schooling. Before then, I had no idea it existed or that it was even legal.”

And 12 years later, Deb has home-schooled all six of her kids and become a huge advocate (提倡者) forat-home learning. “Home-school parenting allows me to have that strong connection with my children,” she says. “I really believe it prepares them for life in the real world, because we live in the real world every day. They’re not stuck in a classroom with only kids their own age.”

While many parents have had recent experience of trying to bring the classroom into th home during COVID lockdowns, Deb says her approach is very different.

“For me, home schooling is a way of life,” she says.“I’ve worked my whole life around my children’s schooling, rather than making it fit in with my life.”

Despite being confident in her style of parenting, Deb has some unpleasant moments on Parental Guidance this week. The screen-time challenge-where the kids aren’t allowed to use their phones or computers for 24 hours injures her relationship with her eldest daughter Jess.

“Doing the challenge and dealing with those emotions with Jess I felt like a complet failure,” she says, admitting that she struggled to understand Jess’point of view.

But once the teenager explained her experience, Deb understood the effect that having an access to technology had on her

“This is how teenagers connect now,” Deb says. “And with Jess being home-schooled, technology is so important. The screen-time challenge was singly the most challenging, yet most rewarding, moment.”

【推荐1】Staying with family members or receiving professional care? Seniors in Harbin have a new choice to enrich their life in retirement(退休), as harbin.dbw.cn reported.

The seniors can take a bus to a day-care nursing home every day between 8 am and 5 pm, just like others go to work, and go back home to be with their families in the evening.

In the nursing home, they will receive professional care, have lunch, take part in activities such as calligraphy(书法) and singing, and take university courses designed for them.

According to a research, there were 1.75 million seniors by the end of 2015. Less than 10 percent choose to stay in the nursing home while most live at home. Loneliness and shortage of care are the major problems facing the stay-at-home seniors.

"After my mother passed away, I struggled to take good care of my father," said Zhou, an office worker.

Those who have retired parents agree that their parents spend a boring and lonely day at home, watching TV all day and filling their stomach with food. The situation becomes worse in winter when elders are unable to go out due to the cold.

However, the cost of such nursing homes is different from person to person but stands at around 2,000 yuan ($290). Another problem is the shortage of facilities (设施). Even if two seniors share a room in the nursing home, the city still lacks(缺少) at least 100,000 such rooms.

【推荐2】Ayla Bashir, a 16-month-old girl from Ottowa, Canada, is healthy after doctors used a new method to treat her before she was born.

Ayla Bashir has a rare genetic disease that killed two of her sisters. The disease, called Pompe, causes the body to fail to make some or all of an important enzyme (酶). Babies with Pompe disease have trouble feeding and experience muscle weakness. They often have very enlarged hearts, and when left untreated, most babies die during the first year of life.

Luckily, a new case study describes the new treatment method that seems to be working for Ayla. Dr. Karen Fung-Kee-Fung is a medicine specialist who works with fetuses (胎儿) at The Ottawa Hospital. She co-worked with Dr. Tippi MacKenzie, both of whom were motivated to bring their research to this family.

In this case, doctors delivered important enzymes to the mother through her stomach. The enzymes were then guided into the umbilical cord (脐带). Ayla received six treatments every two weeks, starting at about 24 weeks of fetus development. Now Ayla receives drugs for her immune system (免疫系统) and weekly enzyme treatments that take five to six hours. Unless a new method is found, Ayla is likely to continue the treatments throughout her life.

For now, doctors are waiting to see whether the treatment can become a generally accepted form of treatment. Dr. Christina Lam said it will take some time to clearly demonstrate whether the results of the new treatment are better for patients.

The young girl’s parents recently told The Associated Press their daughter is now an active, happy girl who is growing normally. The future for Ayla is hopeful but uncertain. “It amazes us every time,” said her mother, Sobia Qureshi. “We’re so blessed.”