What Are You Grateful For?
What are you grateful for?
This holiday season is likely to be different from the previous years due to the pandemic.
As I am sitting here in quarantine. In solitary for the past several days upon arrival in Taiwan.
I am grateful for the food and grocery delivery app and its service that brings the daily delight of street food, fresh fruit, and bubble tea drinks to the door.
At the same time, I am grateful for my children who are teens now reading in Mandarin via video call every day. After reading, we usually play silly games together. It’s our new routine. The daily practice.
Learning is an experience. You want to keep that experience positive and you want to give your child agency so that she can be part of the decision-making process.
The key is the process. The final destination at the end of the day is not how many words she has memorized, recognized, or read but if your child wants to learn more tomorrow.
Is she excited about coming back for more?
What are you grateful for? A good question for every day as you start a new day and new learning with your child.
Make it a gratitude challenge in Mandarin for both you and your child or the whole family during this holiday season. Do it every day. FInd a new word or a new phrase every day with your child together.
Simple is good.
Less is more.
Collect the moments, not the word count.
The funny thing is when you are having a playful learning moment with your child the learning flows. The joy of learning is what we all are grateful for.
Resource You Can Use
Thanksgiving fun with coloring pages, video, and printables
Giving thanks with these expressions
Sing Turkey in the straw in Mandarin
