Daily battles

Since after the March holidays, Nadine has refused to go to school. Every morning, I will have to battle with her. It's easy on some days, and extremely exasperating on some. Worst days are when she screams and wails and had to be carried in by her teachers.

She's given a few reasons for not wanting to go to school - tired, don't like certain friends, don't like her teacher because she now spots a short hair-do, her classmate is naughty, etc. The most consistent and regular one - she doesn't like her Chinese teacher, coz she keeps speaking to Nadine in Chinese!

While she picks up English easily, even with long words like bracchiosaurus and triceratops, she seems to have a lot of difficulties with Chinese. Or maybe its just her resistance with the language. She speaks Chinese with an ang-moh twang and doesn't like to hear it, even on tv or radio.

Initially, we'd wanted to send her for Chinese class after the March holidays. But looks like we better postpone that for a while, since she already dislike the language so much. Sigh ..... perhaps we need to start speaking to Aaron in Mandarin, so that he will have a better chance of liking the language early in life!