“You are not a Chinese teacher, but you can be someone who makes children fall in love with reading.”

Have you ever doubted yourself? Maybe you often hear these voices in your mind:

I am not a teacher, how can I teach my children Chinese?
My Chinese is not good enough, will I be taught incorrectly?
We started too late, the children won’t be able to learn, right?

These sounds are not necessarily real. They are just your past definitions of who you were.

🎯 Tony Robbins once said:

"The greatest driving force of human beings is to live out our own definition of ourselves."

If you keep defining yourself as "a parent who can't teach languages" or "I'm not qualified", it will be difficult for you to move forward, easy to give up, and easy to doubt yourself.

But if you start today and change your identity definition——

"I am the creator of the language environment for my children." "I am the guide who helps my children build a sense of Chinese through stories every day." "I am not perfect, but I am helping my children learn to read Chinese."

Then you will find that: You start to be willing to open a book, even if you are busy today; You are willing to repeat a story with your child, even if you have read it yesterday; You will gradually become the "person who makes Chinese interesting and reassuring" in your child's heart.

We don’t need to become experts before we can get started; we just need to be willing to start, and our status will naturally follow.

Starting today, tell yourself: “I am a parent who is helping my children fall in love with Chinese, and I can do it.”

✅ PS: Small action tasks

Tonight, try doing something that feels un-you:

Record an audio clip of you reading the Lele story to your child
Take a photo of you reading together
Or just sit back and click on a page with your child.

You will be surprised: that small step may be the beginning of your status upgrade.