Relates completely. Made peace with it by treating my kids as genuine practice partners rather than a source of embarrassment — reframed the whole thing.
Viktor Ivanov ⭐ Helpful member
8 Jun 2026, 09:00
My eight-year-old has been here four months and is already correcting my grammar, unprompted and completely without malice — she just genuinely doesn't understand why I still get it wrong. It's a strange feeling, being outpaced by your own child at something you're both starting from zero on.
Logically I know children absorb language differently, through school immersion all day versus my evenings and weekends. But there's a real ego hit there I wasn't expecting, plus a practical issue: she's started translating for me in situations where I probably should be handling it myself, and I worry I'm leaning on her too much.
Anyone else navigate this? Did you find a way to make peace with the pace gap, and how did you handle the translating-for-you situation without either offending her enthusiasm or babying yourself out of practising?