Online Class Notes (Tibo)

you need to persuade him to do his HW. / you need to force him to do his HW.

You need to pay additional efforts / you need to try really hard and you need to pay if you want to eat.
We give you CNY10 as a base and if you finish one chapter you can get CNY1. / he gets a base CNY10 as pocket money everyday and he can earn more based on his study performance or how much he helps at home. He also needs to spend money everyday.

Normally it takes you 1h ….
And if you help to clean the house you get additional money. / if you help with the chores …
And if you sleep early you get CNY2

He needs to pay us CNY7 a day. / he needs to spend CNY7 a day for us to give him food.
If he cannot earn enough we will not give him dinner or lunch.

originally you have skipped one so at week ends you cannot eat both breakfast and lunch. / you have to skip both breakfast and lunch/

For other kids if you earn enough money you will cherish it but yesterday it was a holiday and he earned a lot and I told him you can save it for future use but he doesn’t want to save it.
I don’t know how to response him -> I didn’t know how to answer. / respond

We are tired to educate him / raising him is so difficult.
At first we were very patient but we found it was useless. He doesn’t want to do it so he finds reasons / excuses.

He sits besides you but doesn’t listen / he is not attentive.

We hope he can understand you need to work hard to get what you want.
Last month we took him to Xiamen and he wanted a bookmark and we went there to buy it and it was very expensive (CNY35). We hoped he would read happily. Only 2 weeks later I asked him where it was and he looked at me confused. He couldn’t find it. He didn’t cherish it / he didn’t even realize he lost it.

you say you want it and we buy it.  We went to Xiamen University just for him. / just for his bookmark
He thinks it is normal for you to do that. / for his parents to do that
We are afraid he will take everything for granted.
I think he should take responsibility to be part of the family.

We have never spoiled him. After I became I mom I agree the personality of a kid is decided at birth / fixed

before I became a mom I thought it was the parents fault.

I help him because in the morning I need to rush to work but when he wakes up he doesn’t want to go to school and it gives you little time to ask him to do things by himself.
When you work, most of your energy is consumed, it gives you little energy to argue.

When I was a kid she had enough time to ask me to do things by myself.
I said I will definitely not, even if you give me 10b. / I’m convinced I won’t have another child

They say kindergarten is the best time. Those parents who help their kids with their HW shout and go crazy.

last week end I taught my son math
There was a question on the book, he didn’t know/understand. I changed the question.

For most people it is tough for parents, he has to go to a public primary school and he is good in some aspects but it is not important in the school.

I am upset about this point of him  -> this is something that really upsets me about him  

he never knows how to insist on doing something -> he never finishes things / do them until to the end. / he quits very easily.

If he doesn’t perform well he will be fined

He doesn’t like to play with others. He wants to be better but he is very proud.
We told him “if you do this or that you can be better”
he wanted but he will say no. -> even if he wants to be better he will say not / he will not admit it 
If he doesn’t do it he will lose face. If he doesn’t achieve it he will lose confidence.

it might have to do with how we socialize.

They study hard and perform well at school but I don’t like to play with others. I don’t like to travel with other families , we rarely attend family trips with other schoolmates.
Even when we didn’t have a kid we really enjoyed being on our own / we didn’t like to travel with other people.

he likes a lot of things but no true love -> but he doesn’t have a real passion for anything.

When we buy it he shows great interest but after we buy it he plays with it only once and loses the blocks

Vocabulary

Aquarium (n) zoo for sea animals
We took him to the aquarium

ego (n) sense of self
He has a big ego. / he has a strong ego

fixed / decided by nature.
Education will have an impact but the foundation is fixed.

decided at birth (n) it doesn’t change much after birth
Now I am convinced that personality is decided at birth

school trip / class trip (n) a small trip with the school
They didn’t have school trips during covid