Tag Archives: motivation

All non native parents are not equal

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I’m keeping the promise I made to Blogging on Bilingualism (or rather the blogger behind it) and I want to come back on the topic of non native parents raising bilingual children, or rather parents raising children bilingual in a language that is not their mother tongue. All non native parents are not equal. Whether the [...]
Posted on May 9, 2010

How to I brought my child from crying real tears to a happy smile with one question

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Today my 2 year old had a tantrum, or rather I thought he had a tantrum, until I read this definition of tantrum. Ok so let’s say that today my 2 year old made a fuss, and I don’t like fussy children, and at first I got a bit annoyed, then I ignored him, then I [...]
Posted on November 22, 2009

How to praise to boost motivation

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Children will speak a language, any language, only if they have a reason to, in other words if they are motivated, and one of the trickiest parts of raising a bilingual child is to understand what motivation is and how to trigger it. Praise and reward certainly stand out among the tools most used to [...]
Posted on September 23, 2009

Pro and Contra of Praise

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Let’s keep talking about praise, to understand if and how it actually motivates children to speak the second language. We all use praise, hands up if you don’t get overexcited every time the little one says a new word in the second language, or a sentence, or even (can’t believe that!) a whole reasoning! But do we know what [...]
Posted on September 20, 2009

Is praise always a good thing?

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Your 3 year old says a whole new sentence in …. (fill in with your minority language), what do you do? Jump with joy? Open a bottle of champagne? Head for the toy shop to buy him a reward gift? I bet most parents, like me, would at least be very happy and proud and praise [...]
Posted on September 17, 2009