We're raising our (now 1 year old) son in three languages. My husband is from Brazil, I'm German and we communicate with each other in English. My husband stays home with our son and exclusively speaks Portuguese when they're alone. I do the same with German. When it's the whole family we speak English. We live in Germany and he'll go to an English speaking daycare starting September and then we go from there. Depending on which language needs encouragement well put him in a kindergarten in that language, same goes for school. That's the theory.We know that it's possible for a child to be fluent in up to 6 languages by their sixth birthday. We went to three seminaries on multilingual upbringing and were told our approach is good and that it works as long as you're consistent.He's right on track regarding language development. He turned one today and says 3 (German) words and maybe 1 Portuguese word.Yet literally everybody who notices our trilingual approach tells us it won't work. Has anecdotal evidence about this kid who was mute because of language confusion. About how he won't know any language if we don't drop one. And so on.It makes me insecure. I don't wanna harm him, I'm trying to give him a special ability, make him stand out.I guess I'm just looking for positive stories from multilingual kids and parents. And maybe some tips.Thank you! via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2qFhfcn
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