I wonder where my daughter gets her imagination from. She loves role play and her latest obsession is getting her writing pad and recording everything! I say ‘record’ but it’s really a jumble of letters but those letters take on a different meaning everyday.
Yesterday she was delegating work to the imaginary house cleaners, if only they were real! Today she was taking notes of mummy’s symptoms and writing a prescription for Winnie the Pooh to dispense.
Most days those scribbles become a bedtime story. Princess and the Pea and her trip to Sainsburys! And Sleeping Beauty whose fridge is empty..... Hmmm anyone else see a common theme??!
Very occasionally she will pretend she is reading and writing Chinese but her vocabulary is nowhere near her levels of English ..... I say ‘pretend’ because not only can she not read and write Chinese she is virtually unable to speak it too. I blame myself entirely as I always ‘forget’ to speak to her in Cantonese and now she is fully conversant in English it is even more difficult.
Is it too late to start now? And with the local Chinese school unwilling to accept her until she has passed her 5th birthday I fear that we may have missed an opportunity! ....
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