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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha. You all think you're raising "bilingual" kids, but all you're really doing is shortchanging them on what is valuable time for them to be building a strong foundation in English (English spoken by educated, well-read people with strong vocabularies), and the Spanish they are learning is likely the equivalent to the "English" you'd hear in bumfuck, USA. Just so you don't have to pay a real nanny, and so you can brag that your kid speaks both pigeon English and low class Spanish! Aren't they special![/

It's time you went back to school or have a long discussion with a speech pathologist about language acquisition. True bilingual children are able to retain both languages with little interference and have shown to have superior memorizing capabilities and a stronger wider vocabulary compared to monolingual children. The USA is one of the only countries where it's citizens are not encouraged to understand two, three or even four languages.  My college educated family were all raised bilingual in Spanish and English by my sweet Guatemalan and Cuban grandparents. We have had the advance over most of our monolingual peers since being bilingual is important in our multicultural society.

Your hate and ignorance is holding you back. [/quote]

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