Tips for Raising Bilingual Kids | Superholly - Summary

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This is a transcript of a video where Heather, a bilingual mother of three, shares her tips and experiences on raising bilingual children in Spanish and English. She interviews her husband Jordan, who also speaks Spanish as a second language, and shows some of the resources and strategies they use. She also introduces herself as Holly's sister and explains the different models of bilingual education. She encourages other parents to find a community of support and to be creative and flexible in their language learning journey.

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1. The text is a transcript of a YouTube video about raising bilingual children.
2. The video features Heather, who is Holly's sister and a mother of three children, and Jordan, who is Heather's husband and a father of three children.
3. Heather and Jordan are native English speakers who live in the United States and are teaching their children Spanish, which is their second language.
4. Heather shares five tips for raising bilingual children: decide how to raise bilingual children, look for resources to give high exposure to the minority language, build a community of support, find strategies to get back on track, and have a strong team with your partner.
5. Heather also mentions three main strategies for raising bilingual children: minority language at home, one person one language, and time and place.
6. Heather and Jordan use the minority language at home model, but they sometimes switch to English when they need to communicate something important or emotional to their children.
7. Heather and Jordan use various resources such as books, apps, online dictionaries, forums, audiobooks, videos, DVDs, and YouTube to expose their children to Spanish and to improve their own Spanish skills.
8. Heather and Jordan are part of online communities such as Facebook groups and WhatsApp groups where they can ask questions and get encouragement from other parents who are raising bilingual or multilingual children.
9. Heather and Jordan use creative strategies such as speaking French (a language they don't know) or pretending that their kitten only speaks Spanish to motivate their children to speak Spanish.
10. Heather and Jordan acknowledge that their children started speaking later than monolingual children, but they don't see any evidence of delay or disadvantage from being bilingual.