First Grade's Five Secrets To Success In Taiwan

The younger kid just cleared first grade, except for her centimeter-thick stack of summer vacation homework due upon return to campus. In case that sounds harsh for a 7-year-old, consider that parents do much of their children’s homework in Taiwan, or at least supervise it. Always enlist family support rather than forging ahead yourself into turbid tasks, that’s one lesson about life in Taiwan that children learn in elementary school along with basic math and language. Here are first grade’s five more persuasive lessons on life-long survival: