Before dinner, K and E sit in the middle of the kitchen floor, working a puzzle. It was the Boy’s idea, his initiative.

After dinner (more or less), K and L sit at the dinner table, doing Polish lessons. It was K’s idea, her initiative.

Perhaps if we could figure out some way to make Polish lessons as fun for L as puzzles are for E, we might have more success. And so that’s what I tried, putting on my jester’s hat and giving ridiculously wrong answers to L’s work, getting a giggle and correction.