70-year-old Tan Xiangying is a grandma of two kids in Xituo Town, Chongqing. Every week, she goes to the primary school to join a reading salon (沙龙).
The reading salon is about family education. At first, Tan thought education was a teacher's work and parents or grandparents just needed to meet children's basic needs. After taking a few classes in the salon, Tan learned that her ideas about education are not right. Now she knows every person in the family has a big impact (影响) on kids. She asked over 10 people her age to join the salon. Also, she is happy that she has a wonderful school life. She never thought about that before.
Cui Xiaolan is the first teacher to give classes in the reading salon. In 2015, Cui found that many children's parents worked away from home and these children lived with their grandparents. Most of the grandparents knew little about how to work well with children. That was not good. So she came up with the idea of the reading salon. In seven years, the number of people in the reading salon has grown from 10 to more than 500. Many other school also have their reading parents and grandparents. Cui is happy about that. She said, "It's important that the school and the family work together. I hope every child can grow in a healthy environment."