Rebellious 5-year-old
Let’s just call her AS for reference.  She’s extremely bright and cute (and she knows it) but she seems to be going through an elementary rebellious stage in her life (I wonder what her teen years would be like?).  She is hapa (mixed-blood) as her father is Chinese and her mother is American, and both are very intelligent and hardworking people in the medical field.  So, she’s got the brains and more brains.  Too much brain to be honest.  Anyways, she’s so smart that she has already signed up to do all these things: Chinese school, ballet, piano, Kumon, violin, and maybe some other stuff that I don’t know about.  Trust me, it’s scary.  When I was five, I don’t remember doing anything, other than watching He-man and Mister Rogers.  Those were the good ol’ days… 

So for the past couple of lessons since winter break, she’s been acting up, as in not listening to me and her mother, asking questions as if to change subject, and other random behavioral issues.  I used to be very patient, but once I realized that she was doing all this on purpose, I began to feel temperamental and hopeless.  But I have to keep telling myself that it’s not all my fault.  Both her parents are so busy that they don’t have time to sit down and practice with her.  No wonder she can’t play one line of music all the way through for me.  Not even once.  But the good thing is that she knows what pressures come with the violin because she was performed in a recital last month and played three variations of Twinkle.  I imagine it was great!  She even performed the whole thing by herself again a month later for me.  So now we’re trying to learn songs faster but it’s hard because she doesn’t practice.  I think it just takes time for her to get back into the swing of things.  Next song: Lightly Row