Being in Canada, we've been able to put our daughter into French immersion schooling (we only speak English at home... for now!). She's only in kindergarten and so we're finding it really hard to get her to understand the reasons why it's good for her to do this. C'est la vie :)
Although we see all of these awesome benefits in our friends who are bilingual, like I say, it's hard to get her to understand this. Instead, we just tell her how good it will be that pretty soon she will be able to talk with her cousin and our son (who are both about to start school the same way) without parents understanding what it is they're talking about. She likes that idea.
Of course, my wife and I are feverishly trying to learn it ourselves, too!
Although we see all of these awesome benefits in our friends who are bilingual, like I say, it's hard to get her to understand this. Instead, we just tell her how good it will be that pretty soon she will be able to talk with her cousin and our son (who are both about to start school the same way) without parents understanding what it is they're talking about. She likes that idea.
Of course, my wife and I are feverishly trying to learn it ourselves, too!