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11-13-2025, 10:27 AM
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Bernstein bears... I dunno why I read that as "Epstein bears" at first, and then I thought to myself -- WTF?! Epstein bears and children's books? What kind of fxxked up shxt is this?!
And then I read it properly after the double take...
I'll see myself out now... 
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11-13-2025, 09:18 PM
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My favourite Berenstain Bear book: 
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11-13-2025, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by xxxrsxxx My kid just started kindergarten, she know's her letters but now starting to learn phonics. I'm hoping to help her in starting to read. Did you teach your kids how to read? I've heard about a book called "teach your kid to read in 100 easy lessons", has anyone use this or any recommendations? | We're having to teach our kid (grade 1) despite years of reading to her regularly. We're trying to get in a couple books each day that we get her to read otherwise she just doesn't have an interest in reading books on her own.
She's also in French immersion and I realise I need to pick up some French so that I can read kids books to her as well. I thought I would remember enough of it from high school but oh no, it's truly is a foreign language to me now.
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11-13-2025, 10:31 PM
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#1754 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Bonjour.
Comment ca va (did I even spell it right)
And pizza toppings. That's all I remember.
(I can actually read some ok but cannot grammar or speak it, French French isn't as annoying as Quebecois)
We thought about throwing our son into the French Immersion lottery, but realize we couldn't help him with school work so we decided not to.
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11-14-2025, 11:12 PM
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If you're looking at Berenstain Bears books avoid the ones with the "Living Lights" logo on the top right corner. Those are weird Christian-esque ones written by the son of the original authors.
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Thinking of vacations to take in the next few years with the kid and was looking for your experiences and thoughts on where to go. Kid is 6.5 now and a pretty decent traveller and we are not an outdoorsy family (like we don't ski or we ain't going snorkelling or fishing). We won't travel to the US right now. Other notes:
- Japan is high on our list but I wonder if we should wait till she's a bit older so we can stay out later.
- We had a great time on our road trip to Calgary and plan on doing a longer one there with longer stops along the way next year.
- I heard Mexico City is quite nice to visit.
- Big fan of Northern Europe. I'd love to see London, Scotland or Amsterdam again or see Ireland, Denmark, Belgium etc for the first time. Wife loves the monarchy.
- Am curious about places like Costa Rica (or Central America).
- Would love to visit Hong Kong for the first time in 20+ years.
- Had a great time visiting Australia (Sydney) 2 years ago and would definitely go again. Maybe New Zealand instead or should we go see more of Australia?
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#1757 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Squeeze in a Zipair trip to Japan before he turns 7. Their 6 year old fare is 6 inclusive and can be as low as $150. I would recommend spending as long as you can in Japan, do parts of the legs on the Shinkansen, and rent a car to hit the more off the path towns. When we went to Takayama, I very much regretted taking the train and not renting a car.
Europe is great. We were planning to go in Spring but we KEEP getting side tracked by Asia trips because we have to see people or do things.
We just booked our flights to Shanghai for March. We were originally going to fly direct there and back, but it was quite pricy with China Eastern. We've ended up booking 3 separate one way trips. Vancouver to Tokyo via Zip Air and staying a week, Tokyo to Shanghai via China Eastern, coming back direct with AC (ugh, but their flight time is better than CE). This was all cheaper than flying direct with CE.
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Australia and Europe I find pretty far... tough for those that don't like flying.
Japan (Tokyo just 10 hrs away, 9 hrs return) with young kids is great. Just be warned that elevators/escalators are rare in train stations... Quote:
Originally Posted by EvoFire We just booked our flights to Shanghai for March. We were originally going to fly direct there and back, but it was quite pricy with China Eastern. We've ended up booking 3 separate one way trips. Vancouver to Tokyo via Zip Air and staying a week, Tokyo to Shanghai via China Eastern, coming back direct with AC (ugh, but their flight time is better than CE). This was all cheaper than flying direct with CE. | Lol I am also going to Asia in March, including Shanghai.
If you have school-aged kids and they're doing OK in school, I wouldn't hesitate to take them out of school for ~2 weeks to travel during off peak periods. If you can book the vacation around stat holidays and/or Pro-D days then you don't miss that much after all.
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Pardon me, but is everyone on here Shanghainese or something?
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes Pardon me, but is everyone on here Shanghainese or something? | You're not?
My dad's side of the family is Shanghainese - they're from the Zhejiang region. 20+ years ago we visited that area. My daughter, like me, has an abiding love of soup dumplings too.
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I'm Russian.
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Yesterday, 04:29 PM
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I thought we established the whole Shanghainese thing already. My wife is Shanghainese
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Yesterday, 07:02 PM
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Shanghainese > you
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youre all a bunch of bloody guangdong bastards. fuck you and your fake ass shanghainese.
fuck you badhobz you fake ass shanghainese. how dare you like corollas and ghetto trash and you swear more in cantonese than in shanghainese. disgrace.
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Originally Posted by supafamous Thinking of vacations to take in the next few years with the kid and was looking for your experiences and thoughts on where to go. Kid is 6.5 now and a pretty decent traveller and we are not an outdoorsy family (like we don't ski or we ain't going snorkelling or fishing). We won't travel to the US right now. Other notes:
- Japan is high on our list but I wonder if we should wait till she's a bit older so we can stay out later.
- We had a great time on our road trip to Calgary and plan on doing a longer one there with longer stops along the way next year.
- I heard Mexico City is quite nice to visit.
- Big fan of Northern Europe. I'd love to see London, Scotland or Amsterdam again or see Ireland, Denmark, Belgium etc for the first time. Wife loves the monarchy.
- Am curious about places like Costa Rica (or Central America).
- Would love to visit Hong Kong for the first time in 20+ years.
- Had a great time visiting Australia (Sydney) 2 years ago and would definitely go again. Maybe New Zealand instead or should we go see more of Australia? | Costa rica is meh. if you're not outdoorsy then you shoudl pass. I've been th Aruba, Guatemala, Trinidad / Tobago, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belize, Mexico... you must like the heat, you must really sitting at a beach, NOT being in a resort, or enjoy scuba diving to truly like these places. I mean yes, you can go hiking but it's all the same hike.
New Zealand woudl be ideal if you are really open to camping and road trip in a RV.
Hong Kong if that's your thing, 20+ years is a lot. It'll be huge memories showing your kids where you grew up (i'm guessing). It's great cause you can still get by with plenty of english.
Japan will forever be Japan. It's something your kids will go and go back often. Go where your roots / family ties are and do family things. Heck I'm old and cherished every bit of the family things looking back.
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