Outlook on Love—Special Lecture on Mental Health in IVY

Who we are becoming is not completely determined yet. We never finish growing and changing for better or for worse, as long as we live. Whether we improve ourselves or regress and backslide, our spiritual, mental and physical levelsare always in a state of flux.

Students’mental health has been one of the main concerns of IVY. Each semester, IVY notonly stress on the students’ study and management, butalso pay attention to their thinking and psychological aspects. Lectures of different topics are organized every Thursday to help and guide the students’mental health development.

We have recently invited a well-known psychological specialist, Ms. Sun, to givethe students a lecture on adolescent mental health. It aims to help students to understand the psychological conditions and problems of puberty and to guide them to establish a standard of partner selection.

At the beginning of the lecture, Ms. Sun guided the students to understand the ageand characteristics of puberty; then raised the sensitive topic – heterosexual communication.After a discussion between the boys group and girls group about theirrespective standards of choosing spouse, students had a better understanding ofskills in cross-gender intercommunication: do not force, do not violateyour own will, learn to love yourself, learn to know people and keep yourpersonal limits and boundaries.

Ms.Sun then explained to the students what “chivalry” was and what did that mean to women by telling two short stories. Hopefully the students could redefine their standard of partner selection after the lecture.Ms.Sun’s speech was like a guiding light for the teenagers to build up a correctoutlook on life and love.

The students’ thoughts towards life and love are beyond our imagination, much more rational and mature than we thought. If guided properly, the next generation ofchildren of post-1990 and post-2000 are worthy of trust and support from the parents and the school.