S2E4 Montessori at Home meets Bilingual Parenting

04/21/21 • 36 min

Do you implement Montessori principles at home? Have you been reflecting on how they intersect with bilingual child rearing? We have!

Maria Montessori herself denoted the time from birth to six years of age as the sensitive period for language, so we know there’s a relationship there!

Join us for the second part of our conversataion with Jon and Daniela Perieda about raising bilingual kids. While we are by no means experts on Montessori, the three of us do incorporate many of the principles in our homes (Daniela & Jon particularly) and you’ll hear us chat about what this looks like in our every day lives.

Listen in on how important principles like following the child, observation, nature, focus, and learning in context play into raising bilingual children.

Daniela Perieda is an author, TedTalk presenter, and founder of Bilingual Family which is a Spanish immersion program in Oklahoma City. She believes wholeheartedly that teachers and families play an important role in the development of the WHOLE child, and specifically as it relates to language learning, she knows that language is passed on through play and meaningful relationships. You ready to listen in on the conversation? Me too! Let’s go!

Want to connect further? Find us on instagram (@bilinguitos) or visit us online at www.bilinguitos.com. You can also join our Bilingual Parenting Network group on Facebook! Also, check out Jon and Daniela's website at www.bilingualfamily.us :)

Do you implement Montessori principles at home? Have you been reflecting on how they intersect with bilingual child rearing? We have!

Maria Montessori herself denoted the time from birth to six years of age as the sensitive period for language, so we know there’s a relationship there!

Listen in on how important principles like following the child, observation, nature, focus, and learning in context play into raising bilingual children.

Previous Episode

S2E3 - Navigating Family Language Planning & Learning Alongside Your Child (With Daniela and Jon Perieda from Bilingual Family)

Curious to hear about what it's like for other families raising bilingual kids? In this episode, we had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Daniela and Jon Perieda from Bilingual Family to hear about their language journey as a couple, and now together with their little ones as a family. We talk about what they thought was going to be their bilingual parenting strategy and what it ended up turning into. We also talk about language acquisition for adults, for parents, like Jon, who are learning the target language alongside their kids -- make sure you listen out for what Jon claims is his number one way for learning language -- and oh man, so. much. more!

Want to connect further? Find us on instagram or visit us online at www.bilinguitos.com. You can also join our Bilingual Parenting Network group on Facebook here! Also, check out Jon and Daniela's website at www.bilingualfamily.us :)

Next Episode

S2E5 How to Help Your Child Adjust to a Language Immersion Setting

Going into a language immersion setting for the first time can be overwhelming for a child, especially older children, and understandably so! As adults we can totally identify with this. However, unlike adults, children can adapt to an immersion setting rather quickly as their language learning skills are still extremely sharp. We of course want our young kids to take advantage of those sharp language skills by gaining exposure to a language as early as possible.

So perhaps that’s where you find yourself now; you’ve enrolled your child in a language immersion program, (maybe one of ours?) but you’re feeling a little apprehensive about how the first few times are going to go. Completely normal to feel that way, but how do you approach this topic with your little one? In this episode, we share some tips that we think will help make this new experience as seamless as possible. :)

See the blog version of this episode here: https://bilinguitos.com/adjustingtoimmersion/

Want to connect further? Find us on instagram (@bilinguitos) or visit us online at www.bilinguitos.com. You can also join our Bilingual Parenting Network group on Facebook!