Is it true that a loving mother raised 25 children in 31 years?

Recently, a video titled "Aunt never married, just to give 25 orphans 100% maternal love" was circulated on the Internet. The protagonist of the video, Zhang Yuxiao, is a caring mother at SOS Children's Village in Yantai. She has never been married, but she is already the mother of 25 children.

A caring mother has raised 25 children in 31 years

One day in 1986, Zhang Yuxiao, who was working in a supply and marketing cooperative in her hometown, heard the news that the SOS Children’s Village in Fushan District, Yantai, Shandong was opening. Recruit "loving mothers". The so-called SOS Children's Village raises orphans in the form of a family. Each family is composed of 7 to 9 orphans of different genders under the age of 14 and a mother. The mother lives, feeds, and lives with the children and is responsible for the upbringing of these children. and education.

This year, Zhang Yuxiao was 30 years old. When she told her family that she wanted to be a caring mother, she was unanimously opposed by her family. The younger brother was worried that after Zhang Yuxiao became a caring mother, the neighbors would "have opinions" about her and her family. Her mother, who had always hoped that she would find a partner to get married to, thought until her death that Zhang Yuxiao had found a partner in Yantai as she said. Despite this, Zhang Yuxiao came to Yantai SOS Children's Village and became one of the first caring mothers here and the mother of several children.

As an unmarried woman, Zhang Yuxiao was a little shy when a child called her "mom". In addition to being unaccustomed to the identity of "mom", the work of taking care of children was also quite unfamiliar to her. . Therefore, Zhang Yuxiao followed the training organized by the Children's Village to learn how to be a mother. She also learned from other new mothers in the village and often read related books herself.

In the children's village, each mother has to take care of seven or eight children. Most of them are between 5 and 14 years old. Both of their parents have died. They are healthy and have household registration, but their relatives are unable to help raise them. Different from ordinary families, the families here are all big families. The mother is responsible for all the affairs of the children without the help of the father and his family. Since getting up in the morning, Zhang Yuxiao has been busy cooking, washing, and buying groceries for the children. At night, she has to bathe the children and put them to sleep. Zhang Yuxiao has been repeating this kind of life for 31 years.

In the 31 years since she became a caring mother, Zhang Yuxiao has raised 25 children. The eldest is now in her 40s and the youngest is only 4 years old. Some of these children have already started families and started careers, and some are in kindergarten, primary school and junior high school.

Having to go to school three or four times a week

Being a caring mother is not easy. Zhang Yuxiao also cried during difficult times, and the first time she cried was because her eldest son Zhang Jiancheng was ill. . At that time, Zhang Jiancheng's calf hurt on a snowy night. Before she could think about it, Zhang Yuxiao picked up her son and ran to the hospital without sleeping a wink all night. It was this experience that made her realize for the first time that "it is not easy to be a mother."

Later, Zhang Jiancheng became a soldier and was awarded the title of "Flood Fighting Warrior" for his outstanding performance during flood fighting and rescue operations in 1998. But when others applauded Zhang Yuxiao for having a heroic son, Zhang Yuxiao was not so happy. She knew that her son had been swept into a whirlpool while fighting floods, and this scene only made her feel distressed.

In the children's village, there is a supporting kindergarten, and the children attend the nearest social school starting from elementary school. Since there are many children in the family with a wide age range, ranging from kindergarten to high school, the children's teachers will call home whenever something happens. When she is busy, Zhang Yuxiao has to go to school three or four times a week, and sometimes she even helps married women. My son sends his grandson to kindergarten. But for Zhang Yuxiao now, these are already familiar and are no longer a problem.