I teach my kids my languages

One of my favourite teaching method is the "real-life". We are building our house in Tunisia and I use this opportunity to talk, teach and learn. It is not only my kids who are learning new things, even I do. Because I am the head of charge of this I am responsible and have to know everything about how to build a house, so that I can get what I want at the end. At the same time we, me and my daughter play in the house, pretending that we already live there. We sleep, cook, eat and go to the bathroom to wash up. We even watch pretending television, sitting on bricks. During this time I use new words that my daughter, mostly, do not understand in Swedish. She gets really upset and tells me over and over again: "Use the words that I know". I know that it is sometimes really frustratring to learn a language, and if I want my mothertounge to be complete for both of my children I have to use it in many ways. It is not acceptable that they only learn some basic words, not for me anyway. Language is really important for preparing my kids for the future. 







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My learning kids and their friends

Hi! 

My son is to the right with his friend and second cousin to the left

These are my kids and their friends!  My children are eight years old and five years old, soon six. They moved with me from Sweden to Tunisia in august 2011. Their father is living in Sweden. As I am very concerned with their future I teach them daily about life in many aspects. The first thing is about school: mathematics, languages, science. The second thing that I try to teach them is about how to behaive in life and why. So why am I writing? Just to share some of my ideas with you. They attend school every day, six times a week and they are also active in some sports. I teach them when I find some time. 

My daughter is to the right. Her friend and second cousin is to the left.