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Dilettante

Posted on 06/10/200803/10/2011 by Backpacking Dad

Something MereCat said in response to my sign language post has really stuck with me for the last couple of days. My kids will know some French and they will know some of a lot of other things. I’m going for well-rounded here. I think I agree with the idea that knowing "some of a…

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The Language Moms

Posted on 06/08/2008 by Backpacking Dad

My perspective is bound to be skewed. I don’t meet a lot of dads, except through their wives, hurriedly, between bites of some kind of skewered meat at a birthday party. So I don’t know how other dads feel about trying to teach an infant another language. It’s pretty clear that there is a powerful…

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Not possible

Posted on 06/08/2008 by Backpacking Dad

Sometimes when Erin really likes what she is eating she’ll crack a big smile then jut her chin forward and let out an "mmmMMMMM". But how am I supposed to tell the difference between those sincere exclamations and what I’m certain are the formalities she’s learned: even with a disgusted, scrunched up face, or lemon…

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