The Evil Aunt (Edited)

I just have to do it even though my nieces already knew San Zi Jing (The Three Character Classic, Trimetric Classic) by heart at the age of 4. Blame the education system here. I just didn't want them to end up like me, neither good in English nor Chinese. Oh well, both of them wanna be High Court Judges when they grow up (Thanks to TVB Drama). So their language power better be not just good but perfect.

This June school holiday, my mom made me coach them time table (Maths), spelling and Chinese. By the way, the elder one is very talented in drawings. She has been getting Aces since Feb. She did well for this semester. Maybe not good enough for all parents and all evil aunts but I thought its good effort since she came in 13th in class. I am proud of her. I told her since the beginning of the school term that I'll be glad as long as she did her best in school and I believe she did.

The younger one is still in her kindergarden so I'm pretty relax on her so that she can have some childhood before she starts her crazy competition in primary school.

For me its a good practice for parenting in future. Prince told me not to push them too hard if not they might end up hating school someday. I am more worried about them having low EQs than anything. Anyway, I got the elder one read a book on history and species of cats since she loves cat. Of course there are many words she didn't understand but I had showed her how to go online to find the right pronunciation of those words and now she even has her very own gmail account. She sent her very first email to me just to say "I LOVE YOU!". Awwwwww..... I melted.

But I'm sorry. I still gotta be that evil aunt for her own good. Right now at this moment she's learning Zhong Yong - Jun Zi Zhi Dao (The Doctrine of the Mean). All I know is its gonna be good for her.......

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I decided its best to let my elder niece learn to write San Zi Jin (The Three Character Classic, Trimetric Classic) instead, since she already knew how to recite by heart. Today she learned 12 new chinese characters. Surprisingly the younger one was very interested to learn. Now both of them can write the first 12 characters of San Zi Jing!! Tomorrow I'll teach them the meaning behind those words before we move on to the next 12 characters. I'm enjoying this because I'm learning too!