Blaine Ray calls teaching this way “Playing the Game”. It’s when they try to guess what you are thinking. You put your hand on your chin after asking a question to get student input into building the story, and you look up to the ceiling and wait for cute answers.
If you choose to blame yourself for your children’s inability to play, thinking that you are not cut out to do this kind of teaching, then you probably don’t know how to play the game yourself. But making any system of teaching a language to American secondary students work at this point in our nation’s history is a feat of immense difficulty. You can do this.
Follow along, learn how the Star works, watch some of the videos on my YouTube channel to support it, join a training, ask for the divine quality of patience, and cut yourself a break.