SPANGLISH LIVING POSTS
Bilingual Homeschooling: 5 Spanglish Families Share
Inside: 5 families share how they are homeschooling bilingually, in Spanish, English, or both. Ready for another round of Spanglish family interviews? This time we’re hearing from families who are homeschooling bilingually! Homeschooling among Latinos and...
Interviews With Non-Native Speakers, Teaching Their Kids Spanish
Inside: 5 families share how they are raising in or teaching their kids Spanish, as non-native speakers. As I've sat down to write these interview posts, scrolling through the responses from each family, it's felt like pulling up a chair their kitchen islands or...
OPOL: 5 Families Share How They Make It Work
Inside: 5 multilingual families share how they use the OPOL (one parent one language) system in raising bilingual kids. When it comes to raising bilingual kids, there are different paths you can take. One of the most popular methods is OPOL, or the "one parent one...
Bilingual and Spanish Storytimes for Kids Online
Inside: A list of Spanish storytimes online you can try out with your kids at home. School letting out for the summer has a pretty different feel to it this year. Usually, parents would be gearing up for lots of time together, and thinking of outings to parks, pools,...
20 Spanish Yoga Videos for Kids and Adults
Inside: A list of Spanish yoga videos and resources for kids and families. As I write this post, we're under mandatory quarantine. For at least two weeks, no children in Peru can leave their homes except for a medical emergency. I NEVER imagined I'd be writing those...
How I Began to Teach My Child Spanish at 4 – And Why It’s Never Too Late
Inside: Asking the question, "Can I teach my child Spanish, if I didn't start at birth"? This is one mom's story of raising a bilingual child and why she says it's never too late to get started. My Path to Teach My Child Spanish My 11-year-old bilingual...
10 Tips and Tricks for Raising Bilingual Kids
Inside: Practical advice and tips for raising bilingual kids, from the creators of Veoleo. Raising a bilingual child takes dedication, consistency, and a lot of creativity. Here at Veoleo, we’ve broken it down to 10 tips on what you can do at home to help support...
What If My Child Doesn’t Want to Speak Spanish?
Inside: Advice and tips for parents asking "What if my child doesn't want to speak Spanish?" Before actually having children, it was easy to imagine how they would turn out. We, the parents, would do a, b, c, and our children would beautifully result in x, y, z....
HOW OUR GARDEN HAS HELPED US TO GROW AS A BILINGUAL FAMILY
Inside: I'm welcoming Johana from Mama Tortuga! She is a lover of nature, culture, and languages, backyard gardener, raising multicultural and multilingual children. Supporting families in South Florida to have families that are conscious, multicultural and green. She...
10 Awesome Benefits of Multilingualism
Inside: The benefits of multilingualism, from Aditi Wardhan Singh When I was a child, I struggled with languages. Instead of learning, I mashed them all up into one garble. My mom, exasperated, gave up-- figuring since my dad was Hindi-speaking, I didn't really need...
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