Noah CooperDo you know about the trendiest new demographic for cannabidiol (CBD) products? It is not movie stars. It is not rock stars either. It is definitely not socialites. It is your dog. That is right. The hottest new consumers to enter this growing...
As a grandparent, the safety and well-being of your grandchild are of paramount importance. Before your grandchild comes over, you have to make sure that your home is secure and safe for them. The following are tips for making your home grandchild...
It’s been a while since I posted anything related to the language developments of my son, Mr. T. First we had the World Cup when all I wrote about was in some way football related. Then I took a month off to get back some of my motivation for...
If I had to choose one comedy to watch again and again, it would be ‘The Life of Brian’. For me it is almost the perfect film with its satire of religion, politics, education and modern life. There is an alien spaceship chase, intelligent wordplay...
Brazil may be a huge country, but Brazilians love making everyone and everything in it as small as possible. One thing I noticed early on when learning Portuguese was the prevalence of the suffix –inho or –inha. They use it on the end of words to...
I read a very instructive post recently by Multilingual Living called ‘4 reasons why a bilingual child answers in the “wrong” language.’ My almost-4-year-old son replies to me in the ‘wrong’ language. By ‘wrong language’ I mean that I speak to him...
Mr T is 4 and half years old and, as a digital native, perfectly comfortable with most forms of technology. Obviously, I am aware of some of the potential pitfalls of over-using technology, but there are also huge potential benefits beyond just...
One of my original goals when starting this blog was to document my son’s bilingual acquisition. I had images of writing blog posts about his ability to communicate in English and Portuguese, and maybe even starting to learn a third language. As so...
Last July, I decided to take a break for a few weeks from blogging while I got some work done and caught up on my real life instead of my virtual one. I managed to get some work done, but then more and more came in and real life really is fun...
The people from Curitiba, Curitibanos, are like most people I have met in that they love to complain about the weather. They are fond of lamenting the fact that there can be 4 seasons in each day because you must have clothes to cater for each of...