017: Leanna Guillen Mora The Language Story of The Creative Mom

Leanna Guillen Mora is the founder of Multicultural Kid Blogs and Baha’i Mom Blogs . She also blogs about embracing the madness of motherhood at All Done Monkey . She is a stay at home mom to her 4 year old son and his baby brother. She and her husband, who is from Costa Rica, are raising their kids to be bilingual and to be “world citizens”. We talk about the Baha’i Faith, her choice of language learning system for her kids, learning Spanish while residing in Bolivia, switching languages when speaking to adults and a whole lot more. In this episode of Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: 00:38 Introduction to guest, Leanna Guillen Mora – founder of All Done Monkey, co-founder of Baha i Mom Blogs and Multicultural Kids Blogs 1:47 Discussing Baha’i Faith and its relation to raising children, difference to the other religions 7:10 Leanna’s family language portrait and language system 11:00 Learning Spanish and living in Bolivia 13:32 Discussing “Not every moment has to be teachable, sometimes it’s just cuddling” 16:15 Does Leanna change her personality when speaking another language? 18:30 How she teaches her son another language? 19:10 Leanna’s take on language support and community in her area 21:15 How about Spanish immersion schools? 22:00 Discussing bilingual educational group 26:22 Leanna’s trip to Costa Rica and her experiences in immersion traveling 30:38 Fostering the minority language by traveling to home country 32:43 Discussing the book: Quiet – the power of introvert by Susan Cain 35:15 Switching languages when speaking to adults 36:35 Leanna’s advice on parents who are looking/planning to raise multilingual children 39:52 Closing Remarks Items mentioned in this episode: Quiet – The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain Was this information useful? Don’t you wish you would have found it sooner? Well to help other parents find Bilingual Kids Rock and spread our positive message – please

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017: Leanna Guillen Mora The Language Story of The Creative Mom is an episode from Bilingual Kids Rock Podcast: Raising Multilingual Children, Multicultural Living, Growing Up With Multiple Languages. by Olena Centeno: Mother of 3 Bilingual Children, Ukrainian Living in USA, Multicultural Blogger.

This episode is 43:13 long.

This episode was published on Jun 27, 2014.

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