Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw this discussion at mittbbs.com (发信人: waluzz78 (哇鲁庄镇), 信区: Parenting). I think I agree. ====== 最近跟国内来的访问学者或旅游的家庭往,感觉国内的孩子很活泼自信,跟大人打交道 也很自然。跟他们相比,我们周围在美国长大的10岁左右的小孩,包括我们自己的孩子 ,显得更木讷,尤其不擅长跟大人打交道。我琢磨了一下,觉得原因是孩子在美国长大 ,只想用英文说话,而在家里父母用中文跟他们交流,他们虽然能听懂,但不愿用中文 回答,久而久之,跟大人的交流也变少了,而中国父母跟美国家庭的来往有限,孩子们 也缺乏跟美国大人的来往,结果既没学会中国人待人接物的方法,也没学会美国人的方 式,基本上只会跟同龄人打交道,在成人面前就显得很木讷。想起夏天一个孩子班上搞 得跟老师告别的party上,美国孩子即兴侃侃而谈表达对老师的感激之情,几个中国孩 子唯唯诺诺的回避发言,当时以为是性格所至,现在看应该是生长环境造成的。国内长 大的孩子普遍就大方多了。现在很想亡羊补牢,改善一下孩子的社交能力,我能想到的 就是多带孩子参加活动,尤其是美国人为主的活动,因为让孩子学中国人待人处事已经 不切合实际了,只好人他们学习美国人的方式,自己也只好step out of the comfort zone了.也许加入country club是个办法。以前觉得那里中国人太少了,加入是受罪.不 知大家有什么好建议。 ======
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lots of headache first few days. It’s getting better as time goes. The reason I am trying to do that is it (the coffee) appears to make me go to restroom much more often. I want to eliminate this one factor to see if things get better. A second reason, is I don’t want to
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we were expecting the second baby, we vaguely recall the baby quickly grew out of the “new born” size diaper, so we did not stock up this time. When the baby came home with us, we already had a box of 88 pieces of Huggies natural, and being a person like to stock up
Reading Time: < 1 minute Twice The first time, call originated from this number 1 844 540 4033, the guy not even verified my name, and told my Southwest Air Credit Card is stolen, then started reading about those “fraudulent” charges. At the end, I asked the last 4 digits of my card number, that does not match; and I
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dos and Don’ts in the social media age Recently the Facebook “lab rats” testing for its “news feed” is the news (see this one at Guardian). I gave it some more thought and since I’ve thought about this privacy thing before, I’d like to share some of my thoughts. We all knew (hopefully heard about)
Reading Time: < 1 minute The good news is if one searches “kids St. Louis” in iTunes App Store, my app To Market will show up between six flags and magic house. The bad news is, after spending hours trying to add the feature of “add to calendar”, the app crashes if one tap that button
Reading Time: 2 minutes Serenity became 4 years old a few months ago, and we are actually expecting our second child this July. Being the 1st generation Chinese immigrants in mid-west, we have some unique challenges such as being the minority in the community. This is not the case in the pre-school/toddler community we sent Serenity to (Hope Montessori
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Update 08-30-2014) We went to St. Louis Outlet Mall (the mills) again today. The playground is busier today as this is labor day long weekend. But still fun. We also explored the mall a bit more this time. (Update 07-20-2014) We went to St. Louis Mills today, as I felt it’s might be a better
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s finally spring time here, which also means summer is around the corner. And we need to get kids into summer camp, instead of let them glue to Netflix or iPads all day There are quite a few summer camps in the area, some are almost full time (like regular semester), some are more
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was listening/reading two stories on the college debt (source: NPR) and the financial well beings of millennials (source: fortune/cnn), which lead to to add some new features to the collegeFund app. The app was essentially a college savings (529 plan) and I did not thought too much of this college debt problem at the
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