How Are My Kids Doing in School?

Đạo is already a junior in high school. He hasn’t shared much with me about his school work. I reminded him about PSAT, SAT, and college preparations. I hope he will step step up and take charge of his future. He’s a bright young man. He just needs to devote more time on academics and less time on digital devices.

Đán has been killing it in school. His progress reports have been excellent. He stays up late to do his homework. Though I would rather see him finishing his homework first before playing video games. Nevertheless, he gives me some peace of mind knowing that he cares about his education.

Since school started, Xuân and I are reading together A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker 1925 – 2025 for 20 minutes each day. I can tell the improvement in his reading even though neither of us understand all of the poems. Somehow he has been able to keep going and not given up. Xuân struggles with Spanish and I can’t help him much. We need to get him tutoring.

After trying to teach Đán and Xuân to read over the years, I am glad to see that Vương is a good reader. We have been reading The World According to Mister Rogers together for 15 minutes a day. Even though he doesn’t like the book too much, we are more than halfway through the book. He can read, but doesn’t enjoy doing it. Maybe we should go the library to let him pick out his own books.

The world out there has been insane these days. I focus my attention on my kids instead.