Bitty Bao Blog
“Just” a Mom
When Ella was about 3 years old, I started to often hear her say,
“Daddy has work, so Mommy can...”
or the slightly more hurtful version –
“Mommy doesn’t work, so we can...”
🔶The transition from working professional to stay-at-home mom is already a lot. Add in viewing the world from your growing child’s eyes, and that’s a whole other story.
🔶Any other moms out there being sent into self-reflection mode as you find yourself straddling your strong desire to be a stay-at-home mom for your family and personally missing having a sense of an out-out-the-house purpose? Read Lulu’s story here.
Lacey’s Story
An introduction
🔸Background in education
🔸Generations of American assimilation taking precedence over the continuation of the Chinese language
🔸Traveling to China for the first time
🔸Language hopes for our daughter for the future
🔸What’s to come in Lacey’s blog posts
Who is Lulu?
Wondering about any of the following about Lulu?
🔸Lulu’s loss of the Chinese language during childhood & through her education
🔸Hopes for her own children to speak Chinese fluently
🔸Languge challenges that arose for Ella & Lukie along the way & what Lulu did to help them with language acquisition
🔸Power of high-quality Chinese books
🔸The need for Chinese books with pinyin