Wall Street Journal article "Building a more Resilient Brain"

Very interesting article in the Wall Street journal about a recent research showing that speaking two or more languages appears to pay off in old age, delaying the symptoms of dementia by an average of four years in bilingual people.  The article can be read here. 

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!  

Great post on Bringing up Baby Bilingual Blog!

Article: Bringing up Baby Bilingual: from "too young for any videos" to "too old for these dopey DVDs"!

See additional French videos/DVDs with French tracks in the DVD/MP3 page here

Multilingual Living

Great site and articles about raising bilingual children, see Multilingual Living website.  Great resources and tips!

Additional articles on the related topic of raising bilingual children can be found under the "Articles" page here.