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  • Tips for Raising a Bilingual Child

    Tips for Raising a Bilingual Child

    Darlene’s Wee Care 4 Kids is dedicated to providing the most nurturing educational sound foundation for your children. We are a daycare with a difference. We provide enrichment that is aimed at stimulating a child’s natural curiosity and natural disposition toward learning. In this blog series, we are discussing raising a bilingual child. There are many myths surrounding raising a bilingual child and we will address some of those this week.

    Should I not speak my native language with my child?

    • It used to be the practice that parents, namely immigrants, would not speak in their native tongue for fear that their child would not integrate into American society.
    • This is false, and immigrant parents will be surprised at how quickly their children pick up English when they go to school. Especially if they take advantage of ESL classes for their children.

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    Will bilingualism confuse my child?

    • If you look around the world you will see that most of the world is, in fact, bilingual and many parts tri-lingual.
    • Confusion is a natural part of learning a language and occurs even with monolingual people.

    Will my child become delayed in their education?

    • Research shows that there is no delay that can be caused by bilingualism.
    • While children who are introduced to English for the first time in school may struggle, if they are given proper instruction, they shouldn’t fall behind.
    • Many school districts in areas where a non-English language, or heritage language, such as Hmong, is spoken offer instruction in that language.

    This is so much to say on this topic! We will continue this series in our next blog. In the meantime, if you are looking for high-quality day care in the future blogs.

     

  • The Bilingual Child

    The Bilingual Child

    At Darlene’s Wee Care 4 Kids, we know that you want the very best for your child’s everyday life as well as for their future. As parents, you do activities every day to help your child learn and to better their chances for success in life.

    The Benefits of Being Bilingual

    • One of the best things you can do for your young child is to expose them to another language while they are still young.
    • If you have the opportunity to raise your child in a bilingual home, your child will have an advantage that will last their whole life because the language center in the brains of people raised bilingually is larger than in those who were raised in a single language home.
    • Between 50-80 percent of the world is bilingual so it can be done and is done all over the world.

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    How to Do It

    • PreschoolThere are two main schools of thought when it comes to how to raise a bilingual school.
    • Some people think it’s best to raise them with parallel languages. That is, that one parent speaks one language and the other parent speaks the second language.
    • With this method, it is important that the primary caregiver’s time with the child, and thus the child’s exposure to that language, is balanced, time wise with the second language.
    • Any exposure to a second language is better than none but for a child to be truly bilingual, a substantial amount of exposure is needed.
    • The balance to aim for the second language is about 40 percent of the time.
    • Other people think that it is best to raise a child in one language until they are five or six and then to introduce the second language.

    Check back next week for more information about raising a bilingual child. In the meantime, call Darlene’s Wee Care 4 Kids about enrollment information.