Mine Your Mind

Ever wondered if getting your child to learn the Japanese language whilst simultaneously learning the English language is just a recipe for mushi(Muffin +Sushi)? Ok, that's just my latest lame-#*% attempt at infusing humor in my writings. So let me just get to the point and save me the humiliation.

Based on feedback from many parental study groups, majority of parents feel that for their children to grow up with more than one language, that that is just going to confuse them. But the fact is, the opposite is true, whereby children who grow up with more than one language, develop better problem-solving skills.

"Multilingual children have a sense of perspective that makes them
very language-aware and able to block out irrelevant information"
- Professor Ellen Bialystok of York University in Toronto
(The Sunday Telegraph, London)

Makes me wonder why Barbara Bush never thought of using this method for the then, baby Bush. I would wager that the world would have been a less confusing place.