Bro, nothing more satisfying to the soul than raising one's family to take opportunites of a great country and moulding them into individuals with depth and breath.
Believe me, you kids will acknowledge and be grateful for what your wife and you did in crossing more than half the world, face the challenges of a new country and taking the trouble of picking the best for their future.
Really good to hear such things.
Believe me, you kids will acknowledge and be grateful for what your wife and you did in crossing more than half the world, face the challenges of a new country and taking the trouble of picking the best for their future.
Really good to hear such things.
I wish I had the opportunity (but I was not bright enough then, as I did not have 3 to 4 A's) like several of my schoolmates who were sent to France on a scholarship and where they spent a year learning French.
Currently, our children attend half day Saturday school (from Jk to Grade 12) to learn my wife's mother tongue (the Mandarin schools are outside of downtown Toronto, and about the same time as our Staurday school).
In Sep 2009, our eldest child will attend a Catholic school with a concentrated gifted program (one of three in Toronto) and half day French immersion. Our second child has been selected (after 2 auditions and an academic test) and offered a place at St. Michael's Choir School (one of six in the world to be affiliated with the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome) where they have one class per grade, and a regular academic program will be compressed so that there is time for the boys to have two 25-minute choral lessons per day, classical piano lessons, music theory lessons and extended French. One other major commitment is that the boys (as a member of one of three choirs) have to sing at one of several masses at St. Michael's Cathedral for ten months a year.
I will provide the url, when I obtain it, and edit this post. [ http://www.smcs.on.ca/history.htm ]
If our children learn to be caring, compassionate, independent thinking, responsible and creative adults, my obligations as a parent would have been discharged (and time and money well spent). One other peson said: to be rooted in tradition and to provide them with the wings to soar independently like an eagle.