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

Raising a Bilingual Child   Teaching Tips: The Daddy Show A constant thought in my mind is “What can I do to help my two children develop th...

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...

T-minus 6 days. That's the due date of my second child. If she comes then, I'll be home with my family during Golden Week. If she co...

Late last year and earlier this year I began writing about raising my son to be a bilingual child. His first language, Japanese, was progres...

Long time, no see! I'm alive and doing well and still in Japan of course. I've long been neglecting this blog for far too long. Th...

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

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...

2012 is finished and the new year has begun. Hello 2013. 2012 was a year of challenges and small triumphs as well. The biggest milestone f...

Many people will say that the best way to learn a language is to immerse them in it and interact on a daily basis with nati...

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

Recently, I have been writing some posts about raising my son to be bilingual . A lot of you out there have been interested in reading abo...

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...

This is a follow up to my original blog post about raising a bilingual child. If you are a follower of this blog you already are aware...