What to do when you are with your children
By maggie Sun
@maggiesunjuan (554)
China
July 4, 2019 9:38pm CST
Here comes my 9-year-old daughter's summer vocation. She got a good score in the semester final test, and she's very happy. I'm wondering what we are going to do in the one-month summer vocation.
On school days, I send her to school at 7:30 in the moring then go to work, when school is over at around 4 pm, I get her home and accompany her for 2 or three hours doing her homework. During this time, I will read some books, English novels for most time.
School is hard work here in China, after all, we have vocations, I want to teach her to read more English books, say, one picture book per day in the vocation,school days are so busy we don't even have time to read English books. I bought her Random House picture books ranked levels from 1 to 5,Oxford Reading Tree series, I Can Read series, Richard Scarry's storybooks, she can now read books of level 2 under my guidance. So this is my summer vocation plan: Reading her both English pic books and Chinese books, then take some exercises every morning, finishing her vocation homework. And then?
How do you accompany your children? What will you do when you are together? Do you have some advice for me? I'm all ears to know. Thanks for reading.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
5 Jul 19
I also spend the whole day with my son guiding him through all his work
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@maggiesunjuan (554)
• China
5 Jul 19
India is said to be very advanced in children's work. Most indians are both diligent and creative, these years Indian movies are also hot in China too. It seems that all around the world parents pay much more attention in their kids' work, and that's why most parents are anxious.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
5 Jul 19
@maggiesunjuan yes ..and most of the successful children have careful parents
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
5 Jul 19
How old are your children? When my kids were still small, I'd take them to where they liked.
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@maggiesunjuan (554)
• China
5 Jul 19
She's 9 years old, in Grade 2 in the primary school.
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@pumpkinjam (8770)
• United Kingdom
5 Jul 19
It seems like you have a good plan to continue your daughter's learning but don't forget to make sure she has some time to enjoy herself. Play and enjoyable experiences are important for young children, and they continually learn through such experience.
My children are encouraged to keep up with their homework. My youngest (age 14) has always chosen to read. Eldest (19) will read but prefers numbers and he's working towards being a maths teacher so always has something related to that. I will still make sure they enjoy hobbies, though. Both of them are members of drama groups, 14 year old also enjoys computer games, and I will try to spend some time taking them both for days out. I'll ask them if there are things they would like to do. We don't have lots of plans for this summer but we are having a holiday. I'll be including my boys in fun days out with my nieces and nephews when I have some time off work.
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