by Teachers working in a diverse classroom: Have you thought about hosting a Parents Night event especially for your bilingual families? It’s a great chance to make a personal connection with parents who have a unique set of concerns, as well as a valuable skill set they can bring to your school. Parents in bilingual households, […]
Five Reasons to Hire an Au pair
by An Au pair? What’s that? Why would you hire an Au Pair? Generally speaking, an Au pair is a boy or girl from another country that comes to live with your family for a specific period of time. You will offer him/her free room and board, pocket money, and language lessons, in exchange for […]
Language Learning is Possible for All
by My children are bilingual, including my daughter who has Cri-du-Chat Syndrome, a disability that affects her mentally and physically. She’s not the only bilingual person with special needs, though. In fact, I know a young adult with Down Syndrome who is trilingual. And I read about another boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder who speaks […]
Teaching the Language of Compassion
by When our first child was born, we realized that the language(s) he learns from us will shape him. He will take language skills from our home with him out into the world. We knew we didn’t want to expose him to blame, shame, time-outs, and conditional language. With the globalization of the world, we wanted […]
Language Learning for Parents: 8 Tips to Learn Like a Bilingual Kid
by As a trilingual American and mother to two bilingual kids, I’ve had a lot of firsthand experience with language learning. While I’m not an educator by training, I developed my own homespun curriculum to teach Spanish to my kids and to use in mother and child meetups I conducted out of my home. That […]
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