The benefits of raising a child bilingual include higher creativity, increased multitasking skills, better memory, better social awareness, adaptive skills and of course knowing more languages than one.

Now that we can conclude that bringing up kids in a bilingual environment is beneficial, the more pressing questions still stands, how do we do it in the most effective way for the linguistic and cognitive development of the child?

Bilingual upbringing has been a huge point of concern and contemplation among caretakers when deciding how to bring up their children.

The short answer to this question however is that bilingual upbringing is in fact beneficial for a child’s development.