How to raise bilingual children

The U.S is incredible diverse, with more than 150 different languages spoken just in Illinois households with school-age children.

Bilingualism has lifelong cognitive, social, economic, academic, and cultural benefits:

  1. It can give your children an academic and professional advantage
  2. It makes it easier to learn additional languages
  3. It helps to improve social skills
  4. It increases cultural awareness
  5. It has positive effects of the brain (better attention, multitasking and problem solving)
  6. It benefits your health (for example, it delays symptoms of Dementia and Alzheimer)
  7. It widens your horizons, makes travel easier and more enjoyable by interacting with the locals and making more friends
  8. ...

These are some resources that will help you to promote the use of Spanish with your children/ students:

No Child Left Monolingual, Kim Potowski at TEDx Heading link

The benefits of a bilingual brain, Mia Nacamulli at TED Ed Heading link