Kid is doing Mandarin classes on the weekends now, which largely frees me up from my usual duties of taking her to the park since she's so tired out now. We've tried, so, so many options and so far it seems the most viable one is a 40 minute bus ride to the friendly neighbourhood car sewer up north (we live in a very walkable area so it's always very jarring seeing buildings so fucking far apart from one another, punctuated with endless single family homes, strip malls and big box stores, not to mention the ENDLESS FUCKING PARKING LOTS ).
Other than that I'm mostly just waiting with baited breath to see what our provincial election results are going to be next weekend, with the kid being the most impacted by the results by far. It's likely to be a very close call.
The conservative shit heads just earlier today released their education platform. It's just as horrible as you'd expect. Bring cops back into schools, bring back the letter grading system for grades 4-9, bring back all the standardised tests that we spent the last 7 years getting rid of, give subsidies for parents that home school their smooth-brained hellspawn, end SOGI123 (sex orientation / gender inclusive programme). They're out of their fucking minds, just the worst possible people in this fucking province.
The rest of the shit that they're planning on doing (like ending carbon tax, returning tolls to roads, privatising auto insurance) I don't think would really affect us at all because it's all car brained shit and we don't own one. But it's just really hard describing what's going on to this kid who is going to be directly impacted by this election which they have absolutely no control over whatsoever. My wife can't even vote either since she's not a full citizen yet.
How early did you start your kid in Mandarin classes? I took some as a teen, but didn't stick with it. I'm starting to pencil it in as a thing for the "once we get out of daycare" list lol
Kid is doing Mandarin classes on the weekends now, which largely frees me up from my usual duties of taking her to the park since she's so tired out now. We've tried, so, so many options and so far it seems the most viable one is a 40 minute bus ride to the friendly neighbourhood car sewer up north (we live in a very walkable area so it's always very jarring seeing buildings so fucking far apart from one another, punctuated with endless single family homes, strip malls and big box stores, not to mention the ENDLESS FUCKING PARKING LOTS
).
Other than that I'm mostly just waiting with baited breath to see what our provincial election results are going to be next weekend, with the kid being the most impacted by the results by far. It's likely to be a very close call.
The conservative shit heads just earlier today released their education platform. It's just as horrible as you'd expect. Bring cops back into schools, bring back the letter grading system for grades 4-9, bring back all the standardised tests that we spent the last 7 years getting rid of, give subsidies for parents that home school their smooth-brained hellspawn, end SOGI123 (sex orientation / gender inclusive programme). They're out of their fucking minds, just the worst possible people in this fucking province.
The rest of the shit that they're planning on doing (like ending carbon tax, returning tolls to roads, privatising auto insurance) I don't think would really affect us at all because it's all car brained shit and we don't own one. But it's just really hard describing what's going on to this kid who is going to be directly impacted by this election which they have absolutely no control over whatsoever. My wife can't even vote either since she's not a full citizen yet.
How early did you start your kid in Mandarin classes? I took some as a teen, but didn't stick with it. I'm starting to pencil it in as a thing for the "once we get out of daycare" list lol
I think we started when they were like 7 or 8? Italki app has some good online instructors for good prices if you can't find any meatspace lessons.