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Happiness Journal 13/10/25
Getting my son to read aloud in Mandarin is the last thing I want to do after a long and exhausting workday, but I try my best to keep at it, even if it’s an agonising process watching him read. I think sloths move faster than his reading.
I was getting him to read some story about a bear when he quipped, “This character has the 提手旁 (hand radical). I learnt it from 老师 (teacher).”
I then scanned through the words. Lo and behold, he was right! There are words like 掉 and 抓; I even saw 挣扎 which is a phrase above his cognitive level lol.
Instantaneously, my fatigue vanished like dark thoughts being sucked into a vortex. Not sure if he will become a proficient reader in Chinese in the future, but I am heartened that he has retained a little bit of what he has learnt in school.
I get what you mean. Sometimes I think about agonising over a problem before I sleep since sleep is supposed to help my subconscious come alive and conjure an answer that connects the dots. Then I think to myself, just sleep! No need to be productive all the time!
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Happiness Journals 13/10/25
While going through the standardised exam scripts of the fifth graders, I immediately recognised one of them as my student’s. The reason was that he had used My heart sang and My face lit up, Show not Tell phrases that I had valiantly taught the class to internalise before their writing exam.
He didn’t actually pass it in the end, Nonetheless, a warm fuzzy feeling bubbled up inside me because he took to heart what I had been teaching.
Happiness Journal 12/10/25
Pasted animals representative of various categories on a paper and shared it with a parenting group. garnered five likes and drew traffic to my blog. I’m not just educating my son, but also, spreading my knowledge to concerned parents.