Today, more and more parents ask their children to play sports every day. Because they worry about their children’s health and want to know more ways to help children keep healthy.

Being healthy means a person eats well and gets enough physical activities. If you are healthy, your mind works well and feels good. Here are some rules you can follow to keep healthy.

Eat all kinds of foods. You may have your favorite food, but it is important to eat all kinds of foods. Try to eat at least five kinds of fruits and vegetables a day—two fruits and three vegetables.

Spend less time on screen. Some children spend much time watching TV, playing computer games or using a smart phone. These three sitting down activities are really bad for your health. Try to spend no more than two hours a day on screen.

Be active. You need to find what activities you like as a child. Not everyone loves baseball or soccer. Maybe your favorite is swimming or dancing. You can write down the enjoyable things when your mother says it’s time to stop playing computer games!

Parents with high expectations for their children are nothing new to Chinese kids. However, people often don’t realize that children also have expectations for their parents. What expectations do Chinese children have for parent-child relationships?

China Youth & Children Research Center did a survey on this topic in the United States, Japan, South Korea and China. The survey found that 83.8 percent of Chinese children want to be friends with their parents, the greatest amount among the four countries. This means that they want a more equal（平等的） relationship with their parents.

According to China Youth Daily, traditional Chinese values (价值观) such as respecting one’s elders and the concept of hierarchy (等级观念) are preventing parents from becoming friends with their children. Many Chinese parents criticize (批评) and push their children, as there is lots of competition in school. It requires efforts from both parents and children to create a friendship in family. As children, what can you do to create a pleasant atmosphere (氛围) at home and make friends with your parents? Read on to find out.

How can we get along better with our parents, and at the same time, grow into adults ourselves? Here are some tips.

If you want your parents to give you more freedom, you should show them that you’re ready to be treated differently. For example, learn to use self-control. Show them that you can manage your time well.

US psychologist (心理学家) Carl E. Pickhard wrote in Psychology Today that sharing feelings with our parents can lead to positive changes, while not sharing them can cause misunderstandings.

Do something nice or helpful for your parents. For example, help them with some home chores, make them gifts or teach them some computer skills. Their trust in you will grow.

More results from the survey

Even the most confident performers (表演者) can have stage fright (怯场). Stage fright is common for everyone from Broadway actors to experienced speakers. If you have stage fright, then you may start to feel nervous, shaky, or even afraid when you think of performing in front of a group of people. But don’t worry—you can do with your stage fright by training your body and mind to relax and trying a few tips.

1.Fake (假装) confidence. Just act like the coolest person in the world. Walk with your head high and a big smile on your face, and don’t tell anyone how afraid you are. Keep this posture (姿势) when you get on the stage and you’ll surely start to feel confident.

2.Create a ritual (仪式). Come up with a good ritual for the day of your performance. This could be a five-kilometer jog on the morning of your performance, the same “last meal” before your performance, or even singing a certain song in the shower or putting on your lucky socks. Do whatever you have to do to lead yourself toward success. A lucky charm (幸运物) is also a great part of a ritual. It could be a necklace that’s important to you, or a toy like a teddy bear that cheers you on from your dressing room.

3.Think positively (积极地). Think about all of the possible amazing results of your presentation or performance instead of everything that could go wrong. Fight every negative thought with five positive ones. Keep a small card with encouraging words in your pocket, or think about the benefits that the performance can bring you.

4.Get advice from an experienced performer. If you have friends who are good at performing, ask for their advice. You may learn some new tips and feel more comfortable to learn the fact that everyone gets stage fright, no matter how confident he or she may appear on stage.

Have you ever tried squatting down (蹲下) to see the world from a “1-meter height”?

In 2022, our government started the building of child-friendly cities in 14 cities, including Beijing, Changsha, Shenzhen, and Ningbo. By 2025, we will carry out 100 projects for child-friendly cities all over the country. Building child-friendly cities is not only a national policy (政策) but also a reshaping of city environments, Xinhua noted. This will offer better places to children in services, rights, and playing areas. The 14 cities introduced child-friendly features such as 70-centimeter-tall rubbish bins, 50-centimeter high handles (扶手) in hospitals, 140-centimeter- high handles on buses, and child-friendly sinks in public restrooms, according to People’s Daily.

Local communities are also supporting these great projects. They created places that better serve (服务) children. The recently finished Guangzhou Guangji Community Children’s Park is one such example. People turned the park into a bright yellow playground. Now elder Children can have fun on expanded game walls and there is even a running track for toddlers (幼儿).

However, there are still many problems in building child-friendly cities. For example, parents and teachers often make decision for children. It’s important to listen to children’s voices. And letting them take part in the decision-making processes (过程) means a lot to the children, said Wang Huifung, a researcher at the Natural Resources and Planning Burcau in Changsha, Hunan.

Shenzhen is working on this problem. In 2023, a children’s council was made in the city, where children can talk about things such as weekend activities and how to use space in their community.

【推荐3】Many people believe that not only wetness, but also light and dirty things are the greatest enemies of stamps. People protect their stamps in several different ways.

In fact, we should never touch the stamps with our hands. This avoids moving dirty things onto them. Stamp tweezers (镊子) should be used in all conditions.

Stamps are printed things. The colour will slowly disappear if they are put in the light for a long time. So we should not put stamps in the light for long. Direct sunlight must be avoided as well.

Wetness is an important problem for stamps. Some collectors will put stamps in separate plastic bags. However, it is possible that some stamps have taken in some water from the air before they are put into the plastic bags. Stamps become yellow easily and rapidly after they take in wet air. To protect the stamps, some people also put the stamps into a special room which has a machine to keep the air cool and dry. However, not many people can afford that.

To keep stamps, stamp collectors usually put them under plastic covers. It is a common and simple way. This helps because the plastic cover keeps the stamps off the wet air. It also stops the fingers from touching the stamps.

Some collectors prefer to store stamps inside a plastic box with desiccants  (干燥剂). However, we should take care not to let the stamps touch the desiccants. On top of that, don’t take your stamps out on a wet day.