YANG YU

Educator/Teacher, Parent

I'm passionate about reading and being companion with my students and kids. I read 100 books every year and I will take notes and share them with my friends, which makes me feel the sense of accomplishment. Besides, I do really like to share my ideas with the people around me. Furthermore, during the time with my students and kids, I feel quite relaxed and I could also learn a lot from them. We could communicate and share our ideas openly.

I am a teacher and I am also a mom of 2 kids, one is nearly 8 years old and the other is about 6 years old. During the time with my students and my kids, I found that there were quite a lot anxious moms who cared about their kids' future and wanted to do a lot more than they should have done, which made them exhausted. On the other hand, the kids couldn't get what their parents thought and feel stressful. As far as I'm concerned, there must be something that I can do to help, maybe a TEDx speech about less parenting and how to be a happy mom and teacher with less anxiety. I hope that more and more families could become healthy, both physically and mentally.

Actually I went to a TEDx activity in Guangzhou this January, which left me a deep impression about TEDx speeches. The speakers were professional and humorous. My student and I learned a lot by the speakers. As an educator, I'd really love to hold some activities like this and hope to influence more people by the ideas worth spreading.