When the kids started Chinese School last year, I didn’t enforce doing the homework. Especially for Tyler. I was more interested in easing him into liking Chinese School and let it be more fun than work. My goal was just to expose him to Chinese, but had no expectation of them becoming fluent, since we don’t even speak Chinese at home.

This year, Tyler has a new teacher, who seems more strict. I’ve been enforcing homework completion and so far, while sometimes a battle, its been paying off. Every week, part of his homework is to email his teacher a recording of some topic that is assigned. This week, the homework was to draw a picture of his family and introduce the family to the teacher.