Should I keep our weekend language lesson when my son says it's all corrections?
Parenting"Grandma wants a chat. You turn it into a test." My ten-year-old said that after I stopped his video call twice to correct words in our family language.
He understands quite a bit and answers mostly in English. I worry that without practice he will stop using the language altogether. We have a Saturday workbook session, and I bought a new book because the old one was too easy. He has started asking whether he can skip the call if he completes the pages.
That was not the bargain I wanted. My mother says she is happy to hear about his football match in whichever words he has. I keep correcting because I want him to have more than a few greetings when he is older.
The workbook takes half an hour. That is also the time his friends meet in the park, so it isn't a neutral addition to the weekend. How would you keep a place for the language without making talking to Grandma the thing he has to earn his way out of?