- http://multitonguekids.blogspot.com/
- http://babybilingual.blogspot.com/
- http://wannajugarwithmigo.blogspot.com/
- Bringing Up Baby Bilingual by Jane Merrill, unfortunately out of print, 1984; too old for an ISBN; currently >$150 on Amazon.
- The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents by Edith Harding and Philip Riley
Bringing up a bilingual child is ordinary, not unusual. My own experience of child bilinguals has been mainly in Singapore and India. In these countries (and many others, especially in Asia and Africa) speaking more than one language is taken for granted. Most children grow up in families where two or more languages are spoken, in communities where they hear many languages every day.
In Singapore nearly all children come to nursery school at age 3 already able to speak 2 languages. Many can speak 3. A child growing up with only one language is quite rare.
If you live in a place where there is a clear dominant language in the society, which is the language of the children your child will be playing with, or which is the language of education, you can be sure your child will learn that language. YOU don't need to worry about it at all. If you speak a language that is not used much in the community you live in, and especially if you use the dominant community language with your partner, you are going to have to work hard to develop your child's skills in that language, especially if you and your partner speak in the community's dominant language.
