The downside of making merry with ex-students at NorthLight was not ensuring that the son had studied for his Chinese spelling that was scheduled this Friday. I could pen “To my horror, I realised that he hadn’t finished writing all the spelling words. My jaw dropped open in shock.” But I won’t because I’m actually quite chill even if I’m petrified that he would grow up not being able to deal with Chinese. After all, he had spent this afternoon touching black soldier fly larvae and harvesting compost. I reckon that this kind of hands-on experience is more important than being able to write high-utility Chinese words. (Anyway, his generation liberally abuses the electronic dictionary these days.) So, I wasn’t alarmed, but I did get him to copy each of the undone 7 phrases five times each simply because outcomes are immaterial. But putting in effort is.
P.S: He had a whale of a time gathering all the larvae in two egg shells.
The downside of making merry with ex-students at NorthLight was not ensuring that the son had studied for his Chinese spelling that was scheduled this Friday. I could pen “To my horror, I realised that he hadn’t finished writing all the spelling words. My jaw dropped open in shock.” But I won’t because I’m actually quite chill even if I’m petrified that he would grow up not being able to deal with Chinese. After all, he had spent this afternoon touching black soldier fly larvae and harvesting compost. I reckon that this kind of hands-on experience is more important than being able to write high-utility Chinese words. (Anyway, his generation liberally abuses the electronic dictionary these days.) So, I wasn’t alarmed, but I did get him to copy each of the undone 7 phrases five times each simply because outcomes are immaterial. But putting in effort is.
P.S: He had a whale of a time gathering all the larvae in two egg shells.