'English Only': The movement to limit Spanish speaking in US

The author and her baby. Credit: Courtesy of Irina Gonzalez When I was pregnant and excitedly talking with my husband about all of the things that we wanted to teach our child, Spanish was at the top of my priority list. Growing up in Florida with two parents who spoke fluent Spanish, I know how much I benefited from learning the language and I wanted my baby to grow up just like I did. But now, six months into my son's life, the book Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability lays unopened on my nightstand—along with all of the other parenting books I bought last year. I never imagined that would be the case because learning Spanish didn't seem like such a big deal when I was growing up.

But, you really wish you could allocate the gift of bilingualism to your children. Start young if you can! Studies find that children DO NOT learn how to speak from box, but it most certainly trains their ears to the rhythm and activate of the language. This is answer. When we learn later on all the rage our lives, our ears are a little shut off to new sounds.

At the same time as an Amazon associate, I earn as of qualifying purchases. Solutions to a coarse problem- language rebellion. One of my biggest parenting fears is that my children will grow up and not be biliterate in Spanish and English. We generally practice the Minority Dialect at Home method of bilingual parenting, but I have gotten lazier along with my Spanish. Related post: Raising A Bilingual Child?

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