这次采访的契机是源自一位多年的媒体朋友，在北京冬奥会的大背景下，他一直关注着孩子的冰球训练发展，从嘉熙6岁多开始，一直在跟拍他的训练和比赛，也根据这些素材做了一些不同风格和用途的作品。这次能够参与到外文局对外宣传片的录制，我们也深感荣幸。这个系列短片是为了展示在目前全球新冠疫情的环境下，我们这些普通人是如何在春节当中既延续传统欢度佳节，又配合抗击疫情的。虽然目前全球的形势还比较严峻，但是中国人仍然乐观积极，内心祥和。

整个片子的风格也非常温暖，嘉熙这一部分，也是希望体现疫情之下，中国的小朋友对冬奥会的期盼和支持。拍摄内容对他来说就是最平凡如常的冰球训练，没有掺杂任何造作，没有过度的加工，非常朴实。所以站在家长角度，参与这次宣传片的录制对孩子来说非常有教育意义。作为一名小运动员，不仅要追求竞技成绩，还要担负一定的社会责任，要做积极的榜样，是特别好的体验和经历。

特别巧合的就是，我们的外交部发言人华春莹女士也在推特上转发了嘉熙的这段视频。这确实让我们倍感意外，在推文中我们也能充分感受到中国对冰雪运动的重视与期待，视频也从孩子角度反映出中国冰娃们对冰雪运动的向往与热爱！我们觉得之所以选择嘉熙在这个时期作为北京冬奥会的小小代言人，是因为嘉熙在影片中表现出的真诚和执着感动了华春莹女士，她也希望这样纯真积极的少年形象能感动更多的外国友人，把来自于中国的正能量传向世界。

The opportunity for this interview comes from an old media friend. Against the background of the Beijing Winter Olympics, he has been paying attention to the development of children’s hockey training. Since David was 6 years old, he has been following his training and competition, and made some works with different styles and uses based on these materials.We are also honored to be able to participate in the publicity video recording of CIPG. The purpose of this series of short films is to show how ordinary people like us, in the context of the COVID-19, can not only continue the traditional celebration during the Spring Festival, but also cooperate with the fight against the virus. Although the global situation is still grim, the Chinese people are still optimistic, positive and peaceful.

The aesthetic of the whole film is also very heartful. David’s part conveys the message of Chinese children’s expectations and support for the Winter Olympics under the epidemic. The content was the most normal hockey practice. There was no artificiality, and over-processing, it was very plain. Therefore, from the perspective of parents, it is very educational for children to participate in the recording of video from the perspective of parents. As a young athlete, he should not only pursue competitive achievements, but also shoulder certain social responsibilities, he should be a positive role model. It is a very good experience for him. 

It is a coincidence that our Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying also retweeted David’s video on Twitter. This really surprised us. We could fully feel the love and expectation of China on snow and ice sports in the tweet. The video also reflected the yearning and love of Chinese ice babies for snow and ice sports! We think the reason why  David is chosen as the little spokesperson of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in this period is that the sincerity and persistence shown by David in the film moved Hua Chunying. She also hopes that such an innocent and positive image of a teenager can move more foreign friends and spread the positive energy from China to the world.

所以在嘉熙四岁半的时候，我们备选了几个运动项目带他逐项去体验，冰球项目就是其中之一。还记得第一次去冰场参观训练，我们全家一下子就被冰场里的那种勇敢、智慧、速度、激情的训练氛围吸引了，尤其是小嘉熙。他看着冰上的小哥哥各种高速的滑行，激烈的碰撞，有力的射门，特别地崇拜向往，小小的身影站在板墙外一动不动，眼神随着场上训练的队员们无尽回转。一向谨慎的他主动要求要上冰试课，恨不得立刻就冲上冰面。当时看到他这样的反应，我们觉得，这个孩子应该就要把自己交给这片冰面了。

果不其然，经过反复试课，虽然中间经历了一些小的坎坷挫折，小嘉熙还是决定接受挑战，学习冰球。这绝对是男子汉的选择，我们为他的韧性与坚毅感到非常欣喜。而且冰球是一项特别强调团队配合与个人技能相结合的运动，我们也希望孩子从小就能拥有可以互相信任，互相协助，共同进退的团队生活体验。基于孩子自身强烈的参与意愿，再加上这项运动的特点非常符合我们对孩子体格、性格、品格培养的需要，所以我们全家一致通过，让嘉熙投身冰球运动。

David has been a very warm boy since childhood. Although he is tall and strong, his heart is very soft and delicate. The child is obedient but lacks autonomy, inevitably, we had some worries that his confidence, independence and communication skills will be missing. We believe that general preaching and family guidance would put too much pressure on him and maybe counterproductive. So we decided to help him build his character through some of his favorite sports, allowing him to find himself and build confidence in a proactive environment.

So when David was four and a half years old, we chose several sports to take him to experience one by one, and ice hockey was one of them. I still remember the first time we visited the ice rink for training. My whole family was immediately attracted by the training atmosphere full of courage, wisdom, speed and passion in the ice rink, especially little David. He looked at the little brother on the ice. High-speed sliding, fierce collision, powerful shot, all of these show strong attractive force to him, he just stood outside the wall motionless, and his eyes were fixed in the training team members. Having been so cautious, he still took the initiative to ask for an ice-class, and eager to rush on the ice immediately. When I saw him like this, and I know he already gave himself to the ice.

Sure enough, after several trial lessons, little David still decided to accept the challenge and learn ice hockey, although there are some small frustrations in the middle, It was a man’s choice and we are delighted with his tenacity and perseverance. Besides, hockey is a sport that emphasizes teamwork and individual skills. We also hope that children can have a team life with mutual trust, mutual assistance and cooperation from an early age. Based on his strong desire to participate, and the characteristics of this sport are consistent with our needs for the development of physique, character and personality, our whole family agreed to let David participate in ice hockey.

It’s fair to say that hockey has benefited my kids a lot. The first is the improvement of concentration. Because hockey training and competition require athletes to be highly focused and mentally nervous, he developed the habit of concentration, listening carefully, responding quickly and implementing efficiently in the early stage of hockey learning.

Later, we found out that in addition to his performance on the ice, his concentration and learning efficiency were also very high among his peers in the classroom. Besides, ice hockey requires players to be brave and tenacious, not afraid of hardship, constantly challenge themselves and surpass themselves, respect their opponents, tolerate their peers, and put team interests and honor above everything else… These qualities are deeply integrated into his mind and influence his words and deeds in his study and life.

第二个故事则是一次我和他关于团队的对话，让我感动至今。在 2019-2020年度的北京市青少年冰球联赛中，那也是他是第一年回归凯文蓑羽鹤俱乐部 ，作为U7A队的一员参加训练。当时我们的球队组队比较晚，所有球员正式入队合训的时间不到两个月，因此在联赛期间，凯文队在赛场上的技战术水平与其他老牌强队之间还是有差距的。在当时的形势下，作为家长，我们多少会为嘉熙回归蓑羽鹤球队的决定产生一些质疑和迷茫。后来我也把这些担心之处拿来和孩子进行讨论，让他考虑一下是不是可以在赛季结束后，更换一支更强的球队，继续冰球训练。虽然孩子当时才还刚上二年级，想法比较单纯，并且不善言辞，但是当他听完我的顾虑和打算后，特别坚定地对我说：“妈妈，我觉得你太着急了，我们才组队两个多月，大家还没有更多的时间训练熟悉呢。你这样让我走了，对我们太不公平，你得给我们时间练习呀，多练练不就变强了！我们不是蓑羽鹤吗，只要坚持，再小也能飞过珠穆朗玛峰！”听到孩子的这番话，我的眼泪当时就落了下来，真是让孩子给我上了一课。面对单纯执着的孩子，我也为自己心里的患得患失，急功近利感到惭愧。所以我也坦诚地和他讲：“儿子谢谢你，今天你做了我的老师。这件事，我错了，我尊重你的选择，咱们接下来要一起努力！”

We have two stories to share with you. The first story happened in Chengdu, which is the first time to participate in the sixth Bingyue ice hockey invitational tournament as a member of the Kaiwen ice hockey team. During the five days of the game, Kaiwen’s family and coach were so enthusiastic that David and I quickly integrated into the Kaiwen Hockey team and became a member of it. We also felt very lucky. David performs very excellent and won the trust and love of old players. Especially in the final game, we need to play the home team out on penalties, there were about four or five hundred people outside the stadium, and the atmosphere was very tense. The two players from both sides lost one penalty and got one point each. David, as our third penalty taker, was under great pressure because if we lost a point, we would have lost the championship. I still remember that he was on the field with nervous tears, his mother was more nervous, after encouraging his child, she hid in the rest area and dare not face the field…… As a result, David, only 7 years old, kept his composure and gave full play to his shooting skills to score the crucial penalty. Then the excellent goalkeeper, David’s good friend, Zhu Qizhongen, also brilliantly saved the third penalty! Little demoiselle Crane U8 of Kaiwen wins! There was a buzz inside and outside the stadium, players, coaches, parents all cheered excitedly. This is the first championship of the Kaiwen Demoiselle Crane Club at the Invitational Tournament and the first championship of David’s. It’s very significant! Since then, David and Kaiwen ice hockey club formed an indissoluble bond. 

The second story is a talk between me and him about the team, which has moved me to this day. It was also the first year he returned to the Kaiwen Demoiselle Crane club as a member of the U7A team in the 2019-2020 Beijing Youth Hockey League. At that time, our team was formed relatively late, and all the players had officially joined the team for less than two months. Therefore, there was still a gap between the technical and tactical levels of the Kaiwen team and other established teams in the league. At that time, as parents, we would have some doubts and confusion about David’s decision to return to the Demoiselle Crane club. I talked about these concerns with him and asked him to consider whether he wants to do his hockey training in a stronger team after the season ended. Although my child was just in the second grade at that time, he was naive and not so talkative, but after hearing my concerns and plans, he said to me firmly, “Mom, I think you are too anxious. We have only been on the team for more than two months, and we haven’t had more time to practice and get familiar with each other. It’s unfair to us to let me go like this. You have to give us time to practice. We’ll get stronger. Aren’t we Demoiselle Cranes? If we stick to it, even a small crane can fly over Mount Everest!” Hearing the child’s words, my tears fell at that time, he gave me a good lesson. In the face of simple and persistent children, I feel ashamed for my hesitation and vanity. So I also honestly said to him: “son, thank you, today you are my teacher. I was wrong in this matter, I respect your choice, we will work together!”

我们家庭在公立和私立两种不同教育模式中徘徊不定了很久，最终考虑到私立学校能够更好地塑造孩子的品格，尊重个体发展，培养一名终身学习者，我们还是选择了让孩子在私立学校的环境中学习成长。

选择凯文首先是来自于最值得信赖的同学家长的推荐。后来通过探校参观活动看到，学校在科学体育艺术方面投入的硬件设施在国内可谓首屈一指，我们感到十分震惊，因为还没有见过哪个学校在正式开办之前，就把软硬件环境建设得这么好。我们也相信，这种投入彰显了对教育初心的回归。在软件方面，朝阳凯文注重德智体美的全人教育，用科创、艺术、体育帮助学生在学习、品格、团队精神等方面全面发展，这也很符合我们家庭对孩子培养的理念。

学校也非常注重孩子的身心健康，尊重孩子的个性发展。主张快乐成长，互助学习，成为终身的学习者。这与目前被诟病的那种唯分数论，超难度学习，以摧残孩子身心健康，破坏孩子主动学习兴趣的不良教育现象和风气截然不同。把孩子交给一所拥有符合教育理念期待的学校，才是我们家长的首选。再加上朝阳凯文强有力的硬件设施支持，优秀的教师团队，凯文体育和凯文艺术高质量的素质教育补充，让孩子来到朝阳凯文绝对是最让我们放心的选择。

My family was torn between public and private education, and we finally chose to educate our children in private schools, because private schools do it better in building character, respecting personal development, and making lifelong learners.

In the beginning, the reason to choose CKWA is the recommendation of trusted parents and students. After visiting CKWA, we found that it has the best facilities in science, sports and art in China. We were shocked because we had never seen a school that had built such a good environment before it was officially opened. We believe that this investment reflects a return to the original aspiration of education. In terms of soft strength, CKWA focuses on the holistic education of morality intelligence physique and aesthetics, and helps students develop comprehensively in learning, character and team spirit with scientific innovation, art and sports, which is also in line with our family education.

The school also pays great attention to the physical and mental health of the child, and respects the development of the child’s personality. Advocate happy growth, mutual learning, and become lifelong learners. It is totally different from the criticized educational atmosphere at present, which only focuses on scores and studies extremely difficult knowledge, which will destroy children’s physical and mental health and active interest in learning. It is our parents’ first choice to send children to a school that meets their educational expectations. Besides, CKWA is supported by good facilities, an excellent team of teachers, and high-quality education supplement of Kaiwen sports and Kaiwen art, it is absolutely the most reassuring choice for us to send our children to CKWA.

通过这三年的学习生活，事实证明，这一选择是非常正确的。嘉熙为了发展冰球特长，每天的课业和训练任务非常繁重，但他永远精神饱满，自己能够很好地规划时间，并没有因为投入到学科学习的时间缩短了，而耽误文化课的成绩。反而，他能够以更高的效率和更严谨的态度对待日常的学习，并且把在冰球团队中培养出的协作、友爱精神带入到班级生活之中。朝阳凯文以体育、艺术、科创带动学生全面发展的理念，也确实在他身上得以体现。除了冰球训练以外，利用学校的课程安排和优质的硬件资源，他还学习了游泳、足球、棒球、网球。通过这些体育项目的深度学习，他变得更加自律，更加自信，同时锻炼了面对得失成败时的心理素质，也拥有了更多的伙伴。

所以说，目前看来，孩子在朝阳凯文得到的教育反馈基本达到了我们的预期。作为家长，我们觉得非常满意，也非常幸运。朝阳凯文建校时间虽然不是很长，但相信我们的学校通过调整磨砺，终会更加完美！对于将来，我希望我们的学校能吸引更多优秀的教师加入，能开发引入更优质的课程升学合作伙伴，为孩子们创造更好的学习升学环境和指导，同时吸引更多能力强、素质高的学生家庭加入凯文。

Through the three years of study, the facts have proved that our choice is correct. To study hockey, his daily homework and training task is very heavy, but he is always full of spirit, with good management of time, he still kept good grades regardless of the shortage of time in study. On the contrary, he was able to deal with study with higher efficiency and a more rigorous attitude, and brought the spirit of cooperation and camaraderie developed in the hockey team into the class. His deeds demonstrate CKWA’s education philosophy that uses sports, art, science and innovation to drive students’ hollistic development. In addition to ice hockey training, he also learned swimming, soccer, baseball and tennis by taking advantage of the school’s curriculum and high-quality resources. Through the in-depth learning of these sports, he became more self-disciplined, more confident, and trained his psychological quality in the face of success and failure. He also had more partners.

So far, we can say that the educational feedback our children receive at CKWA is basically equal to what we expected. As parents, we feel very satisfied and lucky. The history of CKWA is not so long, but I believe that our school will be more perfect after some adjustments! For the future, I hope our school can attract more excellent teachers to join us, develop and introduce a high-quality curriculum, provide a better learning environment and university guidance for children, and attract more students with a strong ability to join CKWA.

今年嘉熙为自己设定的目标是入选北京市冰球队U10组别。为此我们俱乐部的Mike教练已经带着他努力了一段时间，进一步加强冰上的技能、体能训练。他为了让自己的动作更敏捷 ，速度更快，一直在积极减肥，效果显著。作为家长，我们确实还挺佩服这个小家伙的！所以，就祝他心想事成吧，即使这次不能成功，也希望他能再接再厉，勇攀高峰。

冬奥会即将到来，嘉熙最近也参与了北京台冬奥宣传片的录制，也算是为冬奥的成功举办尽一份微薄之力！希望他不辱使命，不忘初心，继续脚踏实地认真训练，努力提高技术水平。在教练和队友，老师和同学的帮助下，也希望他能够用自己热爱的冰球运动，为蓑羽鹤冰球俱乐部，为朝阳凯文增光添彩！我们相信，这也是他对所有帮助支持过他的人作出的最好回报。

This year, David has set himself a goal of being selected for the Beijing hockey U10 team. For this reason, coach Mike at our club has been working hard with him for some time, to further strengthen his skills on the ice and enhance physical fitness. To make his movements more agile and faster, he has been losing weight actively, the results are remarkable. As parents, we really admire this little guy! So, let’s wish him to succeed. Even if he doesn’t succeed this time, I hope he can make persistent efforts and scale new heights.

The Winter Olympics is coming, David recently participated in the video recording of Beijing TV for the Winter Olympics, to do a meager force for the success of the Winter Olympics! I believe he will live up to his mission, keep his original aspiration, continue his earnest training and strive to improve his technical level. With the help of coaches, teammates, teachers and classmates, I hope he can add luster to Demoiselle Crane Hockey Club and CKWA with his love of hockey! We believe that it is also the best reward he has given to all those who have supported him.