As the temperatures dip, kids are out of school, and colds rear their sniffling heads, your TV may be on a little bit more. At least in our house it is! One way I rationalize extra screen time is finding ways to make it educational. We’re big fans of PBS shows that promote literacy, science, […]
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Family Travel Going home….Visiting home… seeing family generic cialis 5 mg & friends Arriving the first day – seeing their grandmother and enjoying Niagara Falls This is our vacation this summer – the first time back to the US since moving to France almost 3 years ago. It’s exciting, it’s strange, it’s comfortable, yet it’s
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The World Cup is truly a multicultural event – global in a way that virtually no other sporting event is. For many, attending the World Cup is a lifelong quest or dream. I’ve followed the World Cup with a little bit of jealousy through the Facebook thread of a friend of mine, another multicultural mama, who
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I have two boys ages 10 and 7 who for a large part of their lives were monolingual, English speakers. We had always wanted to raise multilingual kids and introduce them to Arabic and French (the languages of my husband’s home country – Morocco). But we lacked the resources and drive to do so. Then
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Raising children with two languages can feel like time travel. You try to live in the moment, because good parenting and good language teaching depend on being present. At the same time, you have to live in the past. Learning language takes repeated exposure, so you constantly revisit what your kids have learned. Yet, at
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