Hu and Wenzhong's family are with Hu's father in the middle. He has a twin autistic son and an NT daughter.
Time seems to have solidified in Hu and Wenzhong -
★He owns three roasting stores, 12 autistic children in the store have achieved supportive employment, and the latest coffee shop is in the works;
★He is the head of a young autism rehabilitation institution called "Ai Xingyuan". This is the earliest intervention center of Wenzhou ;
★He is the chairman of Wenzhou Intellectual and Friendship Association and a member of the Lucheng District CPPCC, and is also one of the initiators of the "Tongxingyuan Parent Mutual Assistance Association";
★He is also an entrepreneur and runs a water purifier accessories company;
★ He is recently starting to experiment with home life in the community to prepare for the final separation from his son in the future;
★He is recently working on experiments with his community home life to prepare for his future separation from his son;
html l5★He is also a husband and the father of two 21-year-old autistic boys. After finishing the work mission assigned to him by a lot of positions above, he will go to the vegetable market to buy dishes his wife and children like, cook in the cooking, and return to the most warm role...
All this is because he became a father 21 years ago and God gave him a pair of autistic sons. Since accepting this unchangeable fate, the best way for him to love his son is - throw them into society and accept the beating, and learn to deal with strange visions and difficulties.
"Don't protect him too much, and he can't bear to let him do anything. He should eat the hardships he should endure, even if he is bullied, we all came here like this when we were young. This is how this society is. It's really cruel to say it out. As parents, it's sad to see them being bullied, but there is no way. Who makes them such a child? So I think it's a good thing to do. We will know what aspects he needs to improve, give him assistance in his lifetime and teach him how to solve problems."
is a real tiger father.
12 autistic young people are employed in bakery
The bakery store in Hu Wenzhong is called "Yixingjiu". In three years, the store moved from the First Bridge in Wenzhou City to Wendi Road in Xialupu, and opened two branches in Xincheng and Liuhongqiao. The three stores of have a total of 12 autistic employees and 21 ordinary employees, including 3 full-time employment counselors. Hu Wenzhong's two twin sons, Big A and Little A, both work in a baking shop.
1star brew
Da A works at Wendy Road store in the morning, and the task is to make 100 egg tarts. During lunch time, he would order a bowl of his favorite ribs noodles , and after eating, he rushed to Liuhongqiao Store 5 kilometers away to make coffee. Xiao A is the opposite. He made coffee at Liuhongqiao Store in the morning and went to Wendy Road Store to make charity products in the afternoon.
During the day, the two guys could hardly see their father. After get off work, out of the exercise habits that they had developed for more than 10 years, they would go for 5 kilometers to run, come back to clean up their clothes and rooms, and then have dinner with their parents and their sister who went to kindergarten (NT), including serving rice for their parents and taking care of their sister for food. After the meal, one, three, five A, two, four, and six A, and Sundays of winning or losing.
Hu Wenzhong is busy with work and has limited time to spend with his son. He will take his two sons out together after get off work and on weekends. Exercise, shop and play, which is not only relaxation, but also social training. Hu Wenzhong's wife sent her daughter to the kindergarten in the morning and started to be busy with raw materials procurement, product docking, and customer consultation. Hu family does not support idle people, everyone has their own business, self-reliance, scattered and aggregated.
"Children have strong self-care and independent abilities, so they basically don't have to worry about it. Just arrange their work for the day." Hu and Wenzhong said carelessly that Big A is enthusiastic about work, and can roughly achieve 50% of the workload of ordinary employees.Because of their rigid behavior and clean behavior, they are in order to do their work. Xiao A likes to draw, but his ability is relatively weak, so he started in the store. The most active autistic employee in the store is Ye Zi, 22 years old, who came to work in the bakery store with the recommendation of a charity. Because he is talkative and enthusiastic, he is arranged to order food at the front desk. He will warmly greet every customer who enters the store, ask him hello, and ask them what they want to eat.
Yixing brewed some autistic employees
on the 8th of each month, the day of salary is paid: 800 yuan salary + 360 yuan meal allowance, totaling 1,160 yuan. Big A gets the 800 rating, and Little A gets the 400 rating. Although some children, including A, have no idea about money, Hu, Wen and Zhong still want to make them realize in this way that they will have gains in their labor.
Hu Wenzhong believes that if autistic children want to find employment, they must meet at least three conditions: emotional stability, self-care, and basic hands-on ability. In reality, he often sees parents doing too much for them, depriving their children of their opportunities for exercise, which is a very bad phenomenon.
"I made One Star Brew to make Big and Big A independent. In the future, we are gone, and they can survive in the world instead of enjoying happiness." He emphasized, "Some parents come over and say, Teacher Hu , you take my child away. He doesn't do anything when he goes home and can't do anything. If you send such a person to my store, I will definitely not accept it, because it is different from my concept."
html confirmed at the age of 35, typical autism
In 2001, Hu Wenzhong had a son, and he had two people at the same time, and he was proud of his life. Previously, he relied on his own efforts to start a business and become a boss, buy a car and a house, get married and have children, and everything was perfect.
But when I was two or three years old, the two children showed a difference: I ignored me and jumped up and down. I couldn’t teach my nose, eyes, and ears for a month, and my parents couldn’t tell me. "It was a bit painful at that time, and I didn't know what the situation was in the child, so I was very confused," said Hu Wenzhong.
Da A and Xiao A
html When they were over 34 years old, during the process of eating hot pot at home, Da A imitated and made the sound of "cutlefish". Hu Wenzhong and his wife were very happy, and a sound came out!
Later, he searched online and found out that he was autistic and felt that it was very similar. He could even be determined without passing the doctor, because A and A were too typical. Finally I went to the hospital for diagnosis, and the result was indeed the case.
He took his sons to Shantou, Guangdong to intervene. In the winter of 2005, facing a pond in a street park, Hu Wenzhong jumped down and pulled Big A who fell into the water up, then ran to pull back Xiao A who was about to run to the middle of the road and hugged him in his arms. He was wet and cold all over. This happened on the way he took the two brothers alone to recover. At that time, he began to think about how to enable children to undergo long-term rehabilitation training.
"" Intervention costs were too high. It cost 48,000 yuan in three months. In the past few years, it was not much money to buy a house. It was also long-term training. I took two sons alone, and my lover had to work and earn money in my hometown. If I intervene for a long time, I would not be able to bear it financially. " he said.
with his son
At that time, there was no rehabilitation institution in Wenzhou, so he had a bold idea - to connect the resources of the Shantou Rehabilitation Center to Wenzhou and open an intervention institution in Wenzhou. In this way, not only can A small A be trained nearby, but family members of the same pedigree will no longer need to travel in different places. Under the promotion of both sides, in 2007, "Love Star Farm" was established in Wenzhou, and A-sized became the first batch of students. In the first year of its establishment, the institution absorbed more than a dozen families with autism. There are now more than 20 teachers, and nearly 90 children have received intervention.
3 wins by quality, rather than relying on pitifulness to gain sympathy
9 years old, Big A and Xiao A entered general school, Hu and Wenzhong attended school in close proximity until they graduated from the third year of junior high school. A new question came: Where can they go after graduation? At that time, the services for adults with autism in Wenzhou were still blank. Hu and Wenzhong were worried that they would be gone, how could they survive with dignity and be able to better integrate into society.
Can they work? At that time, there were very few jobs suitable for autistic children in China, and there were very few companies willing to hire them. Hu, Wen and Zhong were a practical school. After thinking about it over and over again, he finally decided to rely on himself to create a job opportunity for his children.
His businessman's vision and mind remind him that starting a business is a very cautious matter. He visited Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places, and also went to Japan. When he found out where there were projects to serve people with mental disabilities, he came to learn from the door. After investigation, he believed that baking is an industry that is more suitable for autistic children, and there are also successful examples in Taiwan.
Da A and the bread he made
In 2019, Yixingjiu Food Co., Ltd. was established, with its original intention to provide a platform for employment for people with mental disabilities. In fact, since its opening, the operation of the bakery has not been smooth. The expensive rental cost of has caused it to lose continuously, with a maximum loss of 110,000 yuan per month and a cumulative loss of 5 million in three years. Hu and Wenzhong can only use the money earned from doing business to subsidize the operation of the bakery.
But even in the most difficult times, he did not want to consume the love of a kind-hearted person, but won by relying on the quality of the product to let the children know that they are working with dignity, rather than relying on pitifulness to gain sympathy. In order to improve the quality of the cake shop, he specially spent a lot of money to invite a well-known baking team from Taiwan to design products.
"Product is what I am most proud of. On the market, many bakeries and coffee shops that serve young people are aiming for charity. The business philosophy of Yixingjiu is to rank business first, and then do charity, and then charity. If the product is not good, it is necessary to make changes immediately. First, you must survive. If you rely solely on charity and win the sympathy of others to do this, it will not take long. " he said.
reputation has been accumulated slowly, from the initial loss of 110,000 yuan per month to the later 70,000 to 80,000, 50,000 or 60,000 yuan... it has become less and less until last month, the bakery achieved profits and made 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. It will be better in September. It can basically be said that it has been on the right track. Hu, Wenzhong has begun to plan to open a fourth and fifth store.
"Now there are two stores with a total monthly turnover of 300,000. One of them is located in the street, including 8 large bakery stores, including nationally renowned chain brands. We compete with them fairly, and the products are even better than theirs." Hu Wenzhong said proudly.
Autistic children at work will provide effective support for their employment counselors.
One Star Brew will arrange work in combination with the characteristics of autistic children and structure the work content and process. If you have good communication skills, you can set up a front desk; if you have good cognitive skills, you can set up a menu, price list, take delivery orders, and pack them. Some children have weaker abilities and can do cleaning...
Although life is tight, in order to provide children with professional and appropriate support, Hu and Wen Middle School Specialist spent money to hire three employment counselors to work in three stores. Ordinary employees, employment counselors, and autistic employees are harmoniously integrated to form a small social ecology. Over time, they have also developed a tacit understanding between them: one move or one look to know whether they need help.
Do more exercise, focus on self-care and independence
In October 2020, Yixingjiu and the parents of "Tongxing Garden" jointly launched the "Onexing Travel" employment project. As of now, more than 300 employment training sessions have been carried out for mentally disabled groups including autism, benefiting more than 2,000 people.Starting from 2021, Hu, Wenzhong and Hu decided that "customers will donate 1 yuan for each purchase of 25 yuan in the store to help people with mentally disabled people find employment."
Editor asked Hu Wenzhong, who holds so many positions and raises so many children to find employment, and accepts consultations from parents across the country every day. Are you tired?
Hu Wenzhong said that he is born to be a hard-working life. He is certain to be tired when doing so many things, but he has also gained a lot of things and is growing in all aspects. "I don't think this is a kind of pressure. I just want to stop and take a break when I'm very tired."
This is related to his experience when he was young. His father died when he was 19 years old. He worked three jobs a day at a young age: repairing the TV at home during the day, going to the bar to play jazz drum at night, and then rushing to the factory to work as an electrician after 11:00 pm. I have worked hard all the way, buying a house, a car, and a wife all rely on myself. " Later, they gave birth to two sons, both of whom were autistic. I feel that this is what God has trained me. "
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Nowadays, Big A and Little A have their own interests, hobbies and temperaments. In addition to work, Big A has inherited his father's music genes and plays saxophones especially well; Little A likes to draw, and although he cannot make a living with it, he is more than enough as a leisure skill. They have strong ability to live independently, and they can do it without any problems in cooking, riding bicycles, and shopping alone. "I'm gone, I believe they can survive." Hu Wenzhong said.
If Hu and Wenzhong have any experience in accompanying their children to grow up over the past 20 years, there are two points he really wants to share with parents:
First, insist on exercise.
Big A and small A have been maintaining their exercise habits for 10 years, running 5 kilometers a day. If it rains, you should also move at home. You should also exercise for 40 minutes.
benefits are also obvious. , one is to keep your figure and not gain weight; the other is to be good at emotions , and the dopamine secreted during exercise will make people feel comfortable. Hu, Wenzhong believes that this good habit is also the key to helping A, A through puberty smoothly.
Hu Wenzhong also trained his body to be healthy and powerful. He said bluntly: "Don't look at me as 55 years old, but I have prestige in my eyes with my children."
Second, parents should let go and improve their children's self-care ability and self-living ability.
size A is a child with less ability and has almost no language, but their survivability is very strong. These are the results of Hu and Wenzhong's cruel practice.
✍"We sat at the table when we were eating, and waited for him to call the meal, so that he would learn to take care of us. Because we have paid a lot, we also hope that their sons can learn to take care of their parents and sisters."
✍"Take him to the store to buy glutinous rice, and I asked him to express it by himself. In fact, others can't hear him clearly when he speaks, and everyone will stare at him. I stood by it as if I didn't see it, because this is how the child can Strength, let him learn to narrate by himself. What I want to buy, I will help him slow down his speech, but I can't do it for him. It's just to give him such a real environment. "
✍"Some parents have been nagging, what should I do when my child grows up? While nagging, the child can't take a bath by himself and do nothing. Seeing such parents, I am most anxious. I hope they will change their ideas and quickly cultivate their ability to live independently while they have their lives. There is no shortcut to this, and we must learn to let go."
has been a rehabilitation institution for young age and has done an adult autism employment project. In the next step, Hu Wenzhong revealed that the new business he wants to start is community home exploration , further practicing the separation between parents and children, promoting the independent life of people with mental disabilities, and the children return to their familiar community after get off work. , but does not require the company of parents, but professionals come to provide support and services.
Looking forward to the Hu Wenzhong who cannot stop, bringing us more surprises!
(The picture in this article is provided by Hu Wenzhong)
