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Sunny: Bilingual Parenting
🌸MOTHER’S DAY GIVEAWAY🌸 CLOSED. Congratula 🌸MOTHER’S DAY GIVEAWAY🌸 CLOSED. Congratulations to winners @anwendy & @nguyenandongly
This Mother’s Day I want to celebrate the wonderful mama you are by collaborating with @leleandmonkey to give away two amazing prizes:
1️⃣ Youdao X3S pen + a copy of Lele Goes Out to Play bilingual book + Magnetic Playbook
2️⃣Lele Goes Out to Play bilingual book + Magnetic Playbook
This is also to celebrate with @leleandmonkey on finalizing the adoption of their little girl.
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🏆DETAILS ON THE PRIZES🏆
📌Youdao X3S pen ($300 value!): a dictionary/translation pen that’s easily portable and helps you look up Chinese characters you don’t know. This pen can pull up not only the English definition but also read aloud the characters so you know how to pronounce the characters! A great tool for bilingual parents teaching their kids Mandarin Chinese.
 📌Lele Goes Out to Play: a lovely bilingual book (English, traditional Chinese + pinyin or traditional Chinese + Jyutping) written by Tiffany, mama behind @leleandmonkey account. It’s a story dedicated to her son that helps children develop everyday social language. Winner can choose to receive either the Mandarin or Cantonese version of the book.
📌 Magnet Playbook: fun way to engage your child in imaginative play on the go!
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🌸TO ENTER🌸
1️⃣ Like & save this post, follow me + @leleandmonkey
2️⃣ Tag one friend per comment! Each tag counts as one entry. Tag as many friends as you like! 🎉
3️⃣ Share in your stories for extra 3 entries (don’t forget to tag me so I see it! If your account is private, DM me a screen shot).
4️⃣ Giveaway is limited to U.S. & Canada
5️⃣ Giveaway ends on Saturday 5/7/22, 11:59 PST. Winner will be announced on Mother’s Day
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🌸Disclaimer: per Instagram’s rules, this giveaway is in no way sponsored, administered or associated with Instagram. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. By entering, entrants confirm they are 18 years of age or older.
#MondayMotivator: I don't know about you but I str #MondayMotivator: I don't know about you but I struggle with a mix of having a ton to do but also not knowing exactly what I should do because there's just too much to get to as a mom.
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What has been helping me regain clarity and motivation in bilingual parenting (and all billion the other responsibilities I'm juggling🤯) is my monthly goal setting session. What this basically entails is I simply write a list of goals in the beginning of the month and revisit them at the end of the month. The process takes about 30 min to an hour. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
These sessions serve as a brain dump so my brain is not trying to keep track of all the random thoughts and responsibilities which causes stress. Writing them down helps me come up with a plan and a direction. It's also super encouraging at the end of the month to jot down progress I made or surprising unplanned growth that took place. So often it's easy to focus on what's not happening and forget about all the good that IS happening. Giving ourselves space to celebrate progress is so necessary in this journey because it's so easy to get weighted down by the obstacles.
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What has helped you stay focused and motivated in your bilingual parenting journey? Do you think you'll give this a try?
🪨✝️Happy resurrection Sunday I remember in 🪨✝️Happy resurrection Sunday
I remember in high school my friends invited me to a church event. As I joined in singing a song unfamiliar to me, tears streamed down my face. A love I’ve been longing for but didn’t know where or how to find, found me and embraced me that night for the first time.
A love that continually frees me from past pains that used to hold me hostage…
✨wounds from my parents’ divorce
✨a remarriage that led me to America at 8
✨lies that crept in and told me there’s something wrong with me
✨from the cold wars at home
✨from carrying my immigrant parent’s generational baggages…
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Thank You Jesus for dying for my sins and resurrecting so I can know the Father’s love.
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Wishing you all a very happy resurrection Sunday! He is risen indeed!
👧🏻👶🏻 Happy National Siblings Day After 👧🏻👶🏻 Happy National Siblings Day
After wrestling through three dark years of infertility…
nights and days clouded by questions of why I wasn’t able to get pregnant / trying to fight back tears as I tried my best to answer my daughter’s questions of why she doesn’t have siblings…now my heart bursts when I see these two together. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Sadie loves her 弟弟 didi so well.
She wants to be the first to wake him up from naps
She fights over who gets to hold him before bedtime (she usually wins)
She sings to him in the car when he’s upset (her voice calms him down)
She cried when she heard how much he cried after he got his shots…
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Now that I’m tearing up…
thankful that storms don’t last forever.
Joy meets us in the morning ✨
📚Our Current Favorite Series:紅豆綠豆碰// 📚Our Current Favorite Series:紅豆綠豆碰// One of my favorite purchases from our recent trip to Taiwan is a popular educational comic book series called 紅豆綠豆碰. My daughter has been “reading” this series by following along with their audio ever since we got it (swipe to see her listening and following along). It’s been 3 months and she’s still enjoying it so I HAD to share it with you guys.
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📚I love how many comic books there are on educational topics in Chinese for kids. Comic books is one of the main reasons I can read Chinese despite immigrating to America at 8YO. They’re fun, engaging and entertaining.
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📚This series is published by the makers of Taiwanese textbooks, 康軒 Kang Xuan. 
🎵 The audio that the series comes with makes it easy for kids to follow along (it even has a page turn signal ✨).
📕The content is relatable and great for preschool-grade schoolers.
🗣 It’s a great way to build and expand their Mandarin vocabulary to help them communicate the things they’re currently interested in or learning in school (one challenge parents face once kids start school).
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📚Read up on all the reasons why we love this series and also purchase information on my blog. See link in profile ⬆️
🍀Free Printable Chinese story of Saint Patrick 🍀Free Printable Chinese story of Saint Patrick
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🍀I wasn’t able to find Chinese children’s books on #saintpatrick a few years back so I decided to write one myself. With the help of some friends, I came up with this story you can easily print out and read with your kiddos at home. This story comes in both simplified and traditional Chinese, with or without pinyin and a English translation as well for non-native/fluent parents. @readatouille also read this story aloud on their YouTube channel so you can follow along with them! (Link in my blog post) Hope this helps you celebrate this holiday as a family.
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🍀 While doing research for the book, I was really inspired by his story and what he went through as a young boy. I hope you and your children will be inspired as well.
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🍀 See link in profile for printable👆🏼. Happy early Saint Patrick’s day! Let me know in the comments below if you celebrate this holiday. I know it’s celebrated more in America and I’m guessing Ireland also?
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