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Raising bilingual kids is not easy. As bilingual children approach school age, it can become even more daunting. In France, most children enter school at the age of 3. As a parent of two bilingual and bicultural children, sending a child off to school may be a time of terror or excitement. [...]
Ecole. My husband taught me last year that the word école – the only word I learned in French class for “school”–referred only to the first few years of education in France. School in France is mandatory from the age of 5, although some children begin nursery school at 2 and most have begun [...]
This is my daughter’s first year of school, so I’ve tried to keep up the American presence as much as possible by introducing it into the French classroom and the school day. Because she is being brought up in France, my daughter will most likely be more French than American, but as a full-blooded American, it is [...]
