Interesting NYTimes article about raising bilingual children

Looking for Baby Sitters: Foreign Language a Must - "[...] bilingual children do better at complex tasks like isolating information presented in confusing ways.  [...] Bilingual children are faster at identifying what color the word is written in, a fact researchers attribute to a more developed prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain responsible for executive decision-making, like which language to use with certain people)".  Interesting article (click here).  I am not sure I would agree with all of the article, especially when it comes to "bilingualism tended to suppress verbal and reading comprehension test scores".  I think we are giving our children a gift to be able to learn more than one language at such an early age.  Not only are we forming their ears to different language sounds but also opening their environment to other cultures, which will have lifelong benefits!  And I guess if learning more than one language helps them with nonlinguistic abilities like science and math, I guess it's a plus!