Over a year ago, I wrote this article entitled Our Bilingual Baby: An Experiment. In it, I discussed the research about exposing a child to more than one language from birth. I also wrote about some of our goals and some of the questions we had. (For example, I wondered if we would feel too rude to speak Spanish to J…
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Why You Shouldn’t Care What Guys Are Looking For
This one’s for the girls! 🙂 Recently I’ve seen a lot of (ad-filled) articles telling girls what guys want to see. Sometimes I fight through the ads out of curiosity. I laugh at the ‘reliable’ sources. (For example: ‘One Reddit user mentioned that what really makes him interested in a woman is her big nose.’ Yes, I paraphrased.) Other times,…
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Why We Persevere in Parenting
Today is a normal day of parenting. The two year old is screaming in the background as you’re trying to cook supper for the hungry horde. Your teenager wears a scowl because you removed texting privileges after hearing about an inappropriate exchange. And, once again, the six-year-old left the back door open. You know this because there are now eight…
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What Does God Want From Me?
“What does God want from me?” It’s the age-old cry from humankind. When we are hurting and feel that God has taken something away from us. When we know we have sinned and yet feel incapable of change. And when our hearts truly do desire to follow God, but we don’t know what to do. The prophet Micah made it…
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6 Steps to Speaking Any Language Conversationally
High School Spanish Meets a Taxi Driver: A Typical Language Learning “Fail” We’re leaving behind the noisy, smoking buses and crowded, twisting streets of Tegucigalpa, and it’s finally quiet enough to make conversation with the taxi driver. The only problem is that he doesn’t speak English, and my Spanish is rudimentary at best. “¿Cómo está?” I ask. He scrunches his…
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