THE Bringing up Bilinguals blog

You speak your home language. Your toddler screams. They point at you and say “No, speak English*!”  *Or insert their community/dominant language here Sound familiar? If you’re struggling with this, you’re definitely not alone in navigating your child’s BIG emotions in multiple languages. If you’re here now, this is what the research says about this […]

Passive bilingualism, the school shift, and what you can actually do about it You spent years speaking your language at home in an effort to raise a bilingual child. Your child nodded along, said their first words in babbles that resembled your language, laughed at the right moments, followed every instruction (more or less). They […]