My mom told me, "you are a failure of a Mom if your kids cannot speak Chinese" the other day. She's said it a few times since. It is pretty annoying.... but unfortunately, it has stayed with me, because I know I could put more effort but since my oldest is in the Chinese immersion program and the others will follow suite, I haven't done much. I did purchase some vocabulary flashcards and I did come up with some materials for a Chinese camp with other about to be first graders, but that has been the extent of my Chinese efforts. I haven't even been speaking to them enough, it's been so bad that when I asked my daughter (who is 3) where her head was in Chinese, she was dumbfounded. Oh no, I have not gone over stuff in so long that they do not even know the basics!
So I am committing to be better. I started by creating some printable labels for our play kitchen stuff. Here's hoping it plays out and I am reminded to use Chinese with the littles during play time at home. I plan to print these out and laminate (the cheap way: using packaging tape).
This is very cute! Thank you for sharing your bilingual printable! It's hard to find printables in Chinese!
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