Primary school students are also afraid of being "single"

Recently, a Korean parent - Ms. Jang Yoon-jeong (45 years old) - shared in an interview that she was surprised when hearing her children talk about "dating pressure", even though Ms. Jang's children were only elementary school students. Students who have never "dated" anyone will be teased by other students as "permanently single".

“Dating” at this age is also quite simple. Jang’s children told her that friends who claim to be “lovers” have “dates” during recess. The “couples” will play together or in groups of friends, but will appear to be especially close.

As a mother, Jang Yoon-jeong said she felt confused and troubled, because she did not expect her children's generation to have to endure such strange pressures.

There are elementary school students who proudly show off to their friends that they have a lot of “dating” experience. In fact, the story that Ms. Jang Yoon-jeong shared is also a phenomenon that is attracting quite a bit of attention from education experts in Korea.

Nowadays, even elementary school students are starting to fear being labeled as “single”. This mentality appears partly because children today use electronic devices from an early age, they are easily exposed to a lot of emotional and psychological content for adults. This causes many children to develop a “premature adulthood” mentality.

“When my son explained about the pressure to date at his age, I was shocked,” a male parent named Kim Joong-whan told The Korea Herald. “What kind of problems are elementary school kids facing in their development these days?”

An anonymous elementary school teacher said she often has to find ways to talk privately with some students who show excessive intimacy with each other, such as kissing on the cheek, even on the lips, or touching to show affection.

“My students are quite comfortable discussing love with each other, even though they are young. Things that were previously considered sensitive, they now talk about very naturally,” said the teacher.

While some parents see the love affairs of primary school students as innocent and not a cause for concern, many other parents feel worried and confused. Many parents believe that the psychology of young children today develops too quickly, making it difficult for them to grasp.

Some education experts and elementary school teachers in Korea have spoken out to emphasize the importance of parents caring for, accompanying, and educating children to understand love properly from an early age.

Sex education experts also advise that instead of scolding harshly, parents should gently help their children gain age-appropriate understanding of love, as well as appropriate emotional and behavioral limits with classmates.

In particular, parents and teachers should not scold or harshly criticize children for their love affairs, but should provide guidance to help children understand what they should do, appropriate to their age.

In fact, young children are also under psychological pressure to compete or simply follow their friends, while they do not really understand what they are doing. Teaching children how to express, accept or reject unwanted feelings in an appropriate way is gradually becoming an important content that many parents in Korea will need to teach their children from elementary school.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/hoc-sinh-tieu-hoc-cung-so-e-20250807162452815.htm