Raising a Bilingual Child Teaching Tip: Constant Questioning I learned a lot working as a kindergarten teacher for five ...

There seems to be a myth going around that if you are a foreigner who wants to work in Japan as an English teacher that you...

Raising a Bilingual Child Good Communication and Planning With Your Spouse   One of the keys to being able to raise bilingual children is st...

Teaching Tips: ONLY Speaking English to my Children Some of you out there may find yourself in a situation similar to...

Code Switching  - Up close and personal I have to admit that watching my son’s language development is...

Change can be a scary thing at times. Other times it can be en extremely good thing. Sometimes change is a very necessary thing. ...

One piece of advice I give to new teachers, especially ones teaching second language learners is to constantly speak to the...

Today my son turns two and a half years old. He’s growing like a weed as they say back home and his language continues to g...

My son is now almost two and a half years old and recently has been speaking quite a bit. He says things at night like, “Da...

When you are raising any child, there are definitely special language milestones that you remember as a parent. When your c...

As I have mentioned in previous posts, my wife and I are raising our child to be bilingual. Our goal is to have him fluent ...

A few days ago I wrote a follow-up post to my “Raising a Bilingual Child in Japan” post from June of this year. My recent p...

Soft parents aren’t doing their children any favors. That is something I feel very strong about. I realize that there is now a growing mov...

Playing outdoors and learning outdoors are things I have been thinking about a lot lately. As both a teacher and a parent, I understand ho...