Vietnamese parents and students now have many choices for the training courses on life skills. Well off families can send their children to overseas summer courses, while others can bring their children to domestic summer camps.

Big changes have happened in Vietnamese parents’ thoughts. Instead of trying to stuff in their children’s heads with as much as possible knowledge, they now want their children to learn life skills to get adapted to circumstances.

Especially, a lot of parents, who once studied and worked in developed economies and received the western education, believe that it would be better to teach children the method of thinking and the life skills, instead of too much knowledge, because knowledge is inexhaustible, and it’s is impossible to teach all the knowledge of the mankind.

Doan Thanh Huong in Hai Phong City said that her son has just returned from a summer course in Singapore which was organized by Apollo English Center. The boy was very excited about the trip, saying that he could practice English and participate in many interesting activities. 

“I wish I could have stayed there for one month,” the boy said. The mother feels happy about the trip of the son, because she believes that summer is not the time for lessons, but the time for play.

Huong Thuy, Director of the Huong Thuy Trade Company in Hai Phong City, said she can update information about the girl’s trip to Singapore every day, and she feels happy about the interesting trip of the little girl.

Nhi, the girl, suffered the nosebleed twice, but this turned out to be not a big problem. The girl then received careful treatment from accompanied officers. Especially, Nhi was shown the way to stop bleeding and compress with cold water. Nhi was also advised to drink much water and reminded her to put a bucket of water in her room in the evening to ease the dryness of the air.

A lot of summer training courses have been organized by schools, life skill and youth education centers recently.

The Thien Hung Overseas Study Consultancy Firm has launched two overseas training programs, which cost 28 million dong and 47 million dong for the two-week courses in Singapore and Malaysia, respectively.

VUS has launched the programs on training life skills and English communication skills in Singapore. The service packages and the service fees vary, depending on the duration of the training courses. 

The children to attend the one week course in Singapore, commenting from July 8, would have to pay 1650 dollars, while the two week course, from June 24, would cost 2650 dollars. Parents would have to pay 3650 dollars, or 77 million Vietnam dong, for the three week trips to Singapore (2 weeks) and then to Malaysia (one week).

77 million dong is really a too big sum of money for many parents in Vietnam, where those, who can earn 10 million dong a month would be listed as “high income earners.”

Therefore, the parents, who cannot afford expensive overseas training course, would choose domestic courses. Vu Quang Viet, a state agency officer, has registered a training course at Cleverkids education center in Hanoi for his son. The total fee for the training course, according to Viet, is 4.5 million dong, affordable to many parents.

The attendants would participate in sports activities, learning to swim, learn life skills such as using knives, helping parents do housework. They can also learn what to do in case of fire or flooding and visit the craft villages and historical sites in Hanoi.

Source: VTC/ VNN