I don’t want to let her crying anymore!
Oct 10th, 2007 by Jesslyn
Wien’s kindy has Chinese spelling test almost every week. Strange part is they never have English or Malay spelling test so far, I wonder why too. I think I’ll have to ask the teacher one day.
I will let her try to do the spelling before the actual date as it is part of the homework revision for her too. She can score 100% most of the time but also ever brought back 70% or 80% occasionally. We are ok with this result as long as she knows where is her mistakes. But MIL will comment that we overlook her spelling test if she did not bring back 100%. This is the part I totally dislike as she has different concept with us! Hubby and I have to one ear listen to her and close one ear. No choice, as we cannot argue with her but I do believe one day she will understand our concept in educational learning concept. Never show pressure to the kids!
I think you will wonder why I put my title as above. Let me tell you the story.
Wien’s best friend, 田馨 sits beside her. Most of the time, if she doesn’t know how to write during her spelling test, she will cry or sobbing. Wien feels pity for her and she will let her see her book. In fact she had been doing so for many times. I asked her did the teacher notice she see her book. She replied me that no coz she will only show when the teacher look somewhere else. I told her that her teacher might scold her for doing so, but her replied me :
Never mind lar. I don’t want to let her cry anymore!
I am shock to hear her reply. See, she is so protective over her best friend. I think I better tell her teacher her intention to let her classmate see her spelling test, as I don’t want one day the teacher go and scold my girl. She is not wrong actually. Kids are some how still very pure at this stage!
she has such a pure and nice heart…helpful..
Wien have a heart as wide as an ocean. I do agree with you, i don’t like to pressure kids with studies.
wah ur girl so sweet la… ya i agree not to pressure kids..
alamak…helping for the wrong cause. she probably don’t understand the meaning of rival yet
Wien’s vy kind to help her fren like that. But I guess u’ve to explain to her that she’s not really helping her fren this way. And she may get into trouble if she continue to do so. A chat with her teacher wud be good too.
She’s so nice and kind..
Btw, I think for Chinese, it’s not called ’spelling’, it’s dictation (i.e. ting = listen; xie = write; therefore it’s equal to English dictation, as in listen and write).
Wien is mature to be able to think like that. Wah…why your MIL wants to pressure kids at this age…not that they can get a great job even if they score 100% all the time. You got a great kid there!
Pity friend…Wien intention is to help, which was good. But doesn’t know that this kind of help is wrong did. She not even afraid one day teacher will scold…really protective…
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She’s so kind. Your approach is right - don’t give your children too much pressure. I support you.
aiyoo…so sweet and kind yur gal :p
Hey this is part of school life. I remember we pass our books around during test, whoever knows the answers write it, when teacher not looking.
keke..I done this too!
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she very nice but it won’t help her best friend. it will only make her a copy cat.
True…had told her teacher liao!
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Hi Jess, so sweet of Wein to help her bestfriend. But I agree with sasha it won’t do help to her bestfriend. I agree with your plan too of telling her teacher about it so that the teacher can personally see to it what she can do to help wein’s bestfriend. These are just harmless gestures at this stage (as we thought so) but in later years when they grow, these kids would still think it is ok or fine to help but in reality — in the real world, it could be called “cheating” then.
hugs to your girls! happy week-end!
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Your girl are so kind, but some how maybe she will also ’spoild’ her best friend too. Ask what you said, should let her class teacher know about it, so the teacher will find the way to help the poor gal.
i think mostly is because there are so many chinese words which we cant read it if we really dont know and without the han yu pinyin, but for english, they are just 26 characters only, and we just roughly read it even we dont know it. That why actually chinese is hard to learn as compare to english.
ayoh yoh… initially i tot when my gals go school then i will hv more freedom…after reading this i guess i will not hv free time but to have an open heart to deal with different set of problems!!!
being a mommy not easy!