5 Myths I Believed About Bilingual Kids (That Turned Out to Be Totally Wrong!)

Deciding to raise your kids bilingual can make you create Pinterest’s boards and download language apps like your life depends on it without really knowing what you are getting into. 

Most parents, myself included, thought I was prepared. 

But the truth is… I wasn’t.

Not because bilingual parenting is impossible, it really isn’t. But as I went about my own bilingual journey and I have accompanied many many parents in their own bilingual journey with their kids I have seen a lot of persistent myths that keep coming back and I myself had to fight. 

Mito #1 They are going to get confused

This is the myth I keep hearing and the one that almost convinced me before I started my own journey. I imagined my daughter confused and staring blankly at me, wondering why mom was suddenly speaking words she couldn’t understand.

But the truth is that kids are smarter than what we give them credit for. They do not get confused by two languages, they figure out quickly who speaks what and when. My toddler understands perfectly that with her nanny we speak french and with me french. And depending on the situation, she adapts and uses that language.

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