The Three Character Classics

Instead of looking at the Chinese textbook and learning Hanyu Pinyin and Chinese rhymes and children's song. I started Kai on 三字经 （The Three Character Classics) and we learnt to recite it and Kai was curious about the meaning of each sentence.

We looked at the following passage,





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Men at birth,
are morally good and pure.
Their natures and characters are similar;
as time passed by, their habits and characters become different.

Lack of teaching and being neglected,
people's nature and characters deteriorate.
The proper way to teach,
is with absolute concentration and utmost thoroughness.

After using simple words and ways to explain to Kai, he understood the meaning behind this passage and he learnt to recite it. When Daddy came back, he was able to recite to Daddy and told Daddy what this passage meant.

From this passage and from the bible, Kai understands the important of learning and the important of teaching and disciplining, we imposed on him. He also understands that there is a time for everything, time to pray and learn the bible, time to play, time to work, time to relax,etc.