Teaching your toddler a second language
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Friday, September 5, 2008
Teaching your toddler a second language is possible. Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of sittercity.com, talks about a new child-care trend.
While young children have a unique instinct to learn a new language intuitively, toddlers do not learn very well when put in front of a computer or saddled to an audiotape of foreign phrases. Interacting with others is a crucial part of a toddler's learning process, so use your bilingual/trilingual sitter to interact with your toddler to help him absorb as much of a new language as possible. Tips on how to utilize a bi/trilingual Sitter... http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/parenting_babies&id=6372923
