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发帖数: 5637 | 1 你的孩子的暑假过得充实吗？刚刚和LD讨论觉得孩子这个暑假过得还挺充实的。既有三个多星期的旅游，四个星期的summer camp，又有最后两个星期的自由活动。现在开始要忙学期的生活安排了。。。
如果大家有教孩子学中文的经验，我特别想搬板凳过来听。现在唯一担心的就是孩子把上个学年学的几个马力平的中文字丢掉爪哇国去了。
另外，刚刚看到这篇文章觉得挺有趣的。不知道大家有没有同感。
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A Long Summer for 'Weary Tiger' Mothers
Seventies parenting resembled crate training—now, we're actually expected
to watch our kids
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190359690457651675
By SAMANTHA BEE
The Bee-Jones summer vacation-slam-stravaganza is officially under way. Two blissful weeks of country solitude, trees, farmers' markets and forging countless "precious memories" with our three beautiful children. Random quality check: We are 1,713 minutes in, and so far, I have never worked harder in my life. When is this vacation going to be over?!
Let's be clear about something: I love my children more than life itself, and I would happily lay down my life oryours for them, as required. And I am a "tiger mother" of sorts; except that in my case, I'm the tiger who lays there helplessly in the sun as her tiger babies climb all over her, tugging on her fur and generally having their way with her. It's summer vacation with the kids again, and I am in full "weary tiger" mode.
I am a child of the 1970s. What that means, in short, is that my childhood summer vacations were spent languishing in front of the TV watching Phil Donahue and eating Boo Berry until my skin turned purple. Nobody cared if I read. Nobody cared if I wore sunscreen, or pants. I was like a house cat; my parents barely even knew if I was still living with them or whether I had moved in with the old lady down the street who would put out a bowl of food for me. In the '70s, parenting was like a combination of intense crate-training and rumspringa, so I would typically spend June through September burnt to a crisp and wandering listlessly around the city, verging on scurvy.
Thus, this emphasis on summer enrichment activities and exercise and fresh air and learning today feels unfamiliar to me. What ever happened to letting kids' IQs backslide for three months, all the way back to March? I can't be the only one who wants to sit on a lawn chair parked in a kiddie pool all day while my children gently splash me with cool water, can I? I mean, isn't it good for the brain to "cocoon" or something, to spin itself into some kind of intellectual chrysalis—to "hibernate" for a few months so that it can get hungry again and mate in the fall? That is a proven fact from a scientific study that I just conducted in my brain. (I know, it's practically unbelievable that I have had no formal training in science.)
Good or bad, it really doesn't matter. My brain is fried. It is hot. My feet have weird tan lines from my gladiator sandals and I don't even care. I have replaced exercise with extra coffee. I'm starting to feel like it might be acceptable for me to go out to lunch with other human people in my old maternity yoga pants, which is never a good sign.
I just don't have any more energy to dig in and renovate my children into super-intelligent reading cyborgs for the first day of school. I can't do any more rainy day activities with dry oatmeal in a cardboard box. I simply will not sing the "Fruit Salad Salsa" even one more time; if the children can't get behind Neil Young that's their problem until school starts up again. And my stern warnings have become completely senseless; "I'm warning you—if you don't eat all your Gummy Worms you're not getting any Sour Patch Kids! I am tired of wasting all this good candy!"
Frankly, from now until September the only learning we will be engaging in will be movie-based. I plan to let them watch "Star Wars," and will continue to play it in a constant loop until they can imaginatively explain to me what it might feel like to "make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." It's all I can do to stave off the pandemonium that could be.
I'm not wishing the time away, of course, but I simply can't help but look forward to the fall, to my turtleneck collection, cold-weather meals issued forth from my slow cooker—and, of course, to the thought of relinquishing my children to their marvelous, infinitely qualified teachers, if only for a few precious hours each weekday. There's simply no point in denying the inverse relationship between children who anxiously await summer's end and the subtle frisson their parents feel knowing that soon their children will be back at school. Actually, maybe it's not that subtle.
Now if you will excuse me, the DVD is skipping and the children need more mini M&M's on their cookie pizzas. Duty calls. | e*********u
发帖数: 3591 | 2 自己体会，要经常跟孩子说话，然后随时抓错，时不时讲几个故事提升一下对中文
的兴趣。不过真正效果如何，要等他们长大了才知道，现在还小，不能算。 | y****i
发帖数: 17878 | 3 Samantha Bee and Jason Jones are a couple, and both are "the Daily Show with
Jon Stewart" correspondents
very funny people
I like the English man John Oliver
三个多星期的旅游，四个星期的summer camp，又有最后两个星期的自由活动。现在开
始要忙学期的生活安排了。。。
把上个学年学的几个马力平的中文字丢掉爪哇国去了。
Two blissful weeks of country solitude, trees, farmers' markets and forging
countless "precious memories" with our three beautiful children. Random
quality check: We are 1,713 minutes in, and so far, I have never worked
harder in my life. When is this vacation going to be over?!
【在 s*********5 的大作中提到】
: 你的孩子的暑假过得充实吗？刚刚和LD讨论觉得孩子这个暑假过得还挺充实的。既有三个多星期的旅游，四个星期的summer camp，又有最后两个星期的自由活动。现在开始要忙学期的生活安排了。。。
: 如果大家有教孩子学中文的经验，我特别想搬板凳过来听。现在唯一担心的就是孩子把上个学年学的几个马力平的中文字丢掉爪哇国去了。
: 另外，刚刚看到这篇文章觉得挺有趣的。不知道大家有没有同感。
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: A Long Summer for 'Weary Tiger' Mothers
: Seventies parenting resembled crate training—now, we're actually expected
: to watch our kids
: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190359690457651675
: By SAMANTHA BEE
: The Bee-Jones summer vacation-slam-stravaganza is officially under way. Two blissful weeks of country solitude, trees, farmers' markets and forging countless "precious memories" with our three beautiful children. Random quality check: We are 1,713 minutes in, and so far, I have never worked harder in my life. When is this vacation going to be over?!
| D**********R
发帖数: 25234 | 4 我没经验，不过发现很多幼儿园娃娃的家长已经不自觉地顺着娃说英语了，至少用词和
特定句子是这样。
我觉得既然有抓中文的心思，就要在生活中时刻把握方向，他说英文，就让他用中文说
一遍。
我老家那里人平翘舌都不分的，我妈从小就纠正我每一个平翘舌发音，就是偶尔口误都
会被她揪出来，所以我在后来上学学语文时省了n多力气，普通话一直不错。我觉得在
美国抓娃的中文就得有偏执的劲头。。。 | s*********5
发帖数: 5637 | 5 我自己也平翘舌分不清，所以不指望孩子这方面分得清。困难的就是讲中文故事还要用
英文翻译一遍，因为中文他们闹不明白。还在摸索怎么样不通过电视地来提高他们对中
文的兴趣。
【在 D**********R 的大作中提到】
: 我没经验，不过发现很多幼儿园娃娃的家长已经不自觉地顺着娃说英语了，至少用词和
: 特定句子是这样。
: 我觉得既然有抓中文的心思，就要在生活中时刻把握方向，他说英文，就让他用中文说
: 一遍。
: 我老家那里人平翘舌都不分的，我妈从小就纠正我每一个平翘舌发音，就是偶尔口误都
: 会被她揪出来，所以我在后来上学学语文时省了n多力气，普通话一直不错。我觉得在
: 美国抓娃的中文就得有偏执的劲头。。。
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