Out-of-home care & your multilingual child.

Are you raising a multilingual baby or child? Learn how to support them as they enter a monolingual environment.

When your emergent bilingual child starts school or daycare in a monolingual environment where the language spoken is different from your home language(s), the transition can bring up a lot. There are intense feelings to navigate, logistics to consider, and, of course, the question of how to support your little one.

This guide will take you through:

  • Questions to reflect on as you begin this transition.

  • What you can do to prepare your child for entering a monolingual

English environment.

  • How to set and maintain your family’s language learning goals.

  • How to engage your child’s caregivers in supporting these goals.

Happy learning!

Four preschools of different races sitting on a blue rug and smiling