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Mandarin Tree

Online Mandarin Tree Chinese School - The world's first online play-based Chinese School!

10/04/2025

Thanks for taking me travelling around the world!❤️

12/03/2025

What Mondays, my “days off” are like. 🤣

24/02/2025

Self-love as a theme is relatively rare in Chinese culture due to deep-rooted philosophical and societal values that emphasise collectivism, humility, and duty over individual self-affirmation. Self-worth is often derived from fulfilling one’s role in a larger system rather than from personal validation.

The concept of self-love can sometimes be misinterpreted as self-indulgence or even selfishness in traditional Chinese discourse.

This cultural backdrop makes it difficult to find children’s books and songs that explicitly teach self-love in Mandarin. Instead, many stories focus on moral virtues like hard work, resilience, filial piety and kindness to others, rather than kindness to oneself.

In today’s digital age, children often measure their self-worth by the number of likes and shares they receive, comparing themselves to filtered and idealised images online. This constant comparison can erode their self-esteem and distort their self-image. Teaching self-love is essential to help them appreciate their unique worth and build resilience against such pressures. By seeking out materials that promote self-acceptance within our Mandarin lessons, I hope to empower children to value themselves beyond online validation.❤️

12/02/2025

True Story.

I am that Dutch mum who is actually Singaporean, so you can imagine how both enjoyable and challenging this experience has been for me.

My 11-year-old daughter just sat for the most important examination for primary school leavers in the Netherlands (equivalent to the PSLE), and I did absolutely nothing to prepare her.

No assessment books, no tuition, no revisions—nothing at all. I wasn’t even sure when her exams were, let alone what topics were covered. I’ve never even seen her textbooks. To be honest, I wouldn’t have been much help anyway since her Dutch is better than mine.

As a Singaporean who went through the rigorous Singapore education system, where I had to study very hard for every exam, and as a former primary school teacher who actively involved parents in their children’s examination preparation, this hands-off approach felt completely foreign to me. It even made me slightly uneasy.

And yet, I feel relieved. In the Netherlands, there is no competitive frenzy where children feel pressured to put in extra hours just to outdo their peers. Here, my daughter is measured not just by her exam results but by her cognitive abilities, learning pace, motivation, independence, and work ethic over the years. Most importantly, kids here get to enjoy their childhood. Family time isn’t sacrificed for endless tuition, and parent-child relationships aren’t strained by the pressure of playing the role of a teacher at home.

I miss Singapore but definitely not the education system and the stress it puts on kids and parents.

What are academic assessments like where you live?

Adres

Haarlem
2023

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