How To Make My Child Want To Learn Chinese

Hubby reminds me we have to find alternative ways to engage Beth and encourage her in her learning of Chinese.

So I'm looking out for Chinese DVDs, cartoons, even Nintendo DS games - anything that will make her want to stick with it and improve her mastery of Chinese.

Just this afternoon, she threw a tanty in the carpark and refused to get out of the car, saying she did not want to go for Chinese class. Hubby was able to persuade her - how exactly I do not know - and in the end she was the one who hurried him along as she did not want to be late for class!

I have just looked at AsianParent.com and am now looking at ChineseForSmartKids.com. AP has books with CDs and VCDs and CFSK has a sample movie that looks like it could be fun for Beth to play with.

I wonder what Beth will have to say about today's Chinese class. She didn't even manage to finish her homework for the week. Can't believe she had the audacity to just go for class like that.

PS. Hubby tells me there is a strange car parked outside our house with a group of young people in it and I need to be careful because they look like they have a catapult. Another difference between SG and AUS - since when did peaceful law-abiding citizens have to fear hooligans who might frighten or attack them for no reason? This is our neighbourhood, our street. Makes me mad just to think that we have to put up with such nonsense. Why isn't there enough law enforcement muscle out there to protect the innocent majority?