Flute Love

I love the flute, and here’s why:

This is Carlos a few months ago playing the recorder in his Suzuki School recital.  He’s learning flute but used the recorder for his first presentation.

Here’s a picture I took last Friday during his class.

I’m learning as well, and loving it

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Micro Loup, A Favorite Short Film

Micro Loup is an animated short film by Richard McGuire that we’ve enjoyed watching with 4yo Carlos.

This is the story of a microscopic wolf (in French, “loup”) who is taken in a cage from his natural environment to an urban exhibition.

I’m not always comfortable with him watching films with violent meaning. However, I feel comfortable with Micro Loup story and how it’s presented from an upside view.

We even play the “Micro Loup” game, which is basically him trying to catch me and eat me in one piece. After I’m inside his stomach, he always returns my body to start the game over again.

Enjoy watching the story of this little wolf:

Micro Loup from Richard McGuire on Vimeo.

Foreign languages for kids

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Learning one or more foreign languages is a concern for most people in the current globalized world. For us not native English speakers, learning English is usually the main priority. I agree that English is useful. So useful that most of my reading is in English even if my mother language is Spanish.

However, I believe that learning any language as a kid is as useful as learning English or any other “popular” language as French, Spanish or Chinese.

photo credit: bagaball

For kids, learning a new language is usually a lot of fun. Just listening to new sounds and playing to repeat them, inventing new similar sounds and pretend they’re talking in “Chinese” or “Italian”.

I’ve been told by “experts” that we shouldn’t talk to our kids if our accent in the other language is not perfect, because they’ll pick our “wrong” accent and will never be able to “overcome” it. Read more