Raising bilingual children

“When children are nurtured with patience and sensitivity, multilingualism can be a source of great fortune for them, their families, and society,” states a newspaper from Mexico City. Studies have concluded that children who speak two languages perform better in school than those who speak only one. Sometimes parents worry when their children mix words from the two languages in one sentence or make mistakes by applying the rules of one language to the other. “But these grammatical ‘mistakes’ are trivial and quickly overcome,” says the report. If the languages of both parents are taught from birth, they are naturally absorbed, and in time, the children will handle them separately.

Well I must say that being a Pinay mom, it happens all the time that I talked to my kids in my mother tongue. I never saw them confused or what, Josh especially just gave me his silly smile. Now he can say some visayan words too and whenever I talk to them, mixing english and visayan, I just know it, they really do understand.