Mandarin Counterparts

We have heard a lot of Mandarin in our house over the last two weeks - like A LOT. Yesterday Maeli got on a Zoom call with her teacher & started spouting off in Mandarin while laughing & looking at me. Her & the teacher laughed at whatever she said & then she walked out of the room. I looked over & saw Milo laughing as well so I asked him what they said. He responded that they were joking about how I had gotten mad at Maeli for something she had done the day before. It was in that moment that I realized the magnitude of what we‘ve done - we have gifted the enemy their own secret language. I’m so glad these kids have the opportunity to learn another language but I fear this is just the beginning of us being outsmarted by our little Mandarin-speaking counterparts.