Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop # 47: A MONOLINGUAL MOTHER’S QUEST TO RAISE A BILINGUAL CHILD

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Welcome to the Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop!

The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop is a place where bloggers can share multicultural activities, crafts, recipes, and musings for our creative kids. We can’t wait to see what you share this time!

Created by Frances of Discovering the World through My Son’s Eyes, the blog hop has now found a new home at Multicultural Kid Blogs.

This month our co-hosts are:

A Multiasian Family Life on Multicultural Kid Blogs

Castle View Academy

A MultiAsian Family Life

Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop is a place for you to share your creative kids culture posts. It’s very easy, and simple to participate!
Just follow these simple guidelines:

  • Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook. Please let us know you’re following us, and we will be sure to follow you back.
  • Link up any creative kids culture posts, such as language, culture, books, travel, food, crafts, playdates, activities, heritage, and holidays, etc. Please, link directly to your specific post, and no giveaways, shops, stores, etc.

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  • Please grab the button code above and put it on your blog or the post you’re linking up. You can also add a text link back to this hop on your blog post. Note: By sharing your link up on this blog hop you are giving us permission to feature your blog post with pictures, and to pin your link up in our Creative Kids Culture Feature board on Pinterest.
  • Don’t be a stranger, and share some comment love! Visit the other links, and comment. Everyone loves comments!
  • The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop will go live on the 3rd Sunday of the month. It will run for three weeks. The following blog hop we will feature a previous link up post, and if you’re featured, don’t forget to grab the button below:

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Here’s my favorite from last time:

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One of the benefits that comes with being a multicultural family from different backgrounds is that it’s easier to teach children different languages. In my household, for example, I speak to my children in English while my husband speaks to them in Korean.

So naturally, this guest post on Bicultural Mama’s website written by Llacey Simmons from 21st Century caught my attention. I clicked in and discovered her moving story.

Though she and her husband are from different races (she is African-American while he is a red-headed White American), they grew up speaking one language. And so it came as a surprise to her husband (and nonsense in the beginning) that she would want their son to learn a second language.

So what does she do? She does her best to convince him again and again that it’s not as pointless as he thinks it is. I don’t want to spoil the rest of the story which she tells very beautifully. I highly recommend visiting her story and reading how she convinced her husband to agree with teaching their children a second language (Chinese, in fact!), her journey and path in helping him learn this language and that proud “motherhood moment” she felt when she realized it wasn’t all for naught, after all.

I love the post. Visit her story and be moved as well! 🙂

Happy reading, everyone!

Thank you for linking-up, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to!

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Jackie

Jackie is a Chinese-Malaysian-Filipina married to her Korean sweetheart and raising two very multicultural Asians. She blogs about her cultural discoveries and what it's like raising third culture kids in Asia. Join her as she seeks an answer to the hardest question of all, "where are you from?"

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