Hallo everybody, i am a very inactive member of this group. I read sometimes your messages but i really don't write that much. The last time was maybe 2 years ago! and the first time almost 6 years ago!! You see, inactive but an old member.
I will not repeat my story (i've made a copy-paste of one of my last mails! look below) i would like to say that we tried hard to grow up our children with three languages (spanish, dutch and persian) and with my youngest child (a beautiful 3 yr old girl) it's going ok. But with my oldest boy (6 yrs old) it's not that good. When i asked your advise, somebody (one of the administrators i guess) told me that what i was doing was ok, and that that worked really good in NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES .... now, he was totally right. Since that moment i thought... maybe there is something that is not "normal" but, yea, i didn't think more over. He was just 4!!! Today (actually since 5 months ago) i know that he has ADD and language is (could be, not always happens) one of the difficult abilities that they can manage. We are focusing in dutch but his spanish is good. However, persian is not that good and we decided to stop eventually, my DH speaks to him but just sometimes. Now, thank you for reading me. Ivette Lopez ******************************************************** Ps. here my last mail: hello! i am a memebr of this group since my first child was born, and that is 4 years ago! now i have also a beutiful daughter - 15 months-. Sometimes i write something to share or to ask. It's a long time since the last time... anyway. My story in short... I am mexican, my husband is iranian and we live in the netherlands. Arash -the oldest- speaks the three languages BUT none of them "perfectly" and i mean for his age. Until some months ago that was not a problem but now he is going to the school and the teacher says that he is not at the same level than other children, he is the only one in his group with this "problem" (!!!). She says that he can't respond to the others because of the language and she advises we speak just dutch at home... my son doesn't want that at all!! he is used to sepak spanish with me, farsi with his father and dutch with the rest... i think i am getting crazy. I know he has to improve his dutch that's why he goes to the language therapy, swimming lessons, judo lessons, i mean, i try to involve him more and more outside with the duth language... not enough. If somebody has/had the same situation, let me know and tell me what you have done please!! Greetings and have a nice week. *^*Ivette Lopez*^* ------------------------------------ Visit http://www.multilingualmunchkins.com. Home of the Multilingual Munchkins Playgroup Database.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilingualmunchkin/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilingualmunchkin/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
