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@alearose My kid went through the same thing at the same age (he's almost 15 now). We put him in a preschool that used some of the second language. Not exclusively, just songs and a few vocabulary words. It helped, I think, but I also think it's a normal phase. I think finding a setting where...

@mica_ I think it's great! My toddler is currently learning 3 languages (plus some Sign): one from me (English), one from dad, and one at school (the community language). One of his teachers does not speak English, but my knowledge of the community language is....ok. We're able to communicate...

@katrina2017 Oh. You said you were in the same situation, so I assumed your judgment was coming from there

@katrina2017 You have ppd? I'm so sorry. I hope you get the help you need. Both with the baby and mentally. It's very brave of you to speak out about it.

@alearose Maybe it's just me, but I think it's a little unreasonable to suggest to a mom of a newborn who is suffering from ppd and feels excluded to just learn a foreign language in her free time. And that doesn't do anything to solve her feeling excluded now. As I said above, the kid's 7 weeks...

@alearose OK. I really don't think the little bit of repeating he'll be doing until mom figures out things like "do you have a poopy diaper" and "are you hungry" and children's songs will set the 7 week old back so much in terms of language and is worth it for the mom's mental health, but lots...

@x902xxipher She is being excluded. That's what happens. That feeling is completely valid. It's your job to repeat everything twice. It's your job to repeat everything twice. Like that, but in 2 different languages. It's annoying, but it's what you have to do. Not just safety things. Everything...

@lippy1004 I think at 2 so many kids are at different places with their language development that it might not matter if she doesn't speak the daycare language because there is still so much non verbal communication going on. My 2.5 year old seems to love his preschool though he doesn't speak...

@kingdomconsul Trilingual plus some ASL signs here. Not the language ASL because I'm not fluent. Just a few signs as a supplement. So far (22 months in a family of later talkers), kid seems to pick up signs the fastest (we repeat it fewer times before he starts doing it back) and is...

@andylondon So I've read and heard so much mixed stuff on whether multilingualism "causes" a "speech delay." I am a lay person, but from what I have seen talking to professionals and other parents it looks like multilingualism *looks like* a delay in speaking but not language. This is what I...