Parent-child-services
The first years of life of are fireworks of development:
Little children learn to think, speak and move in an explosive and fast way and their brain develops with every experience and every newly learned thing. Human beings will never again learn as much and as fast as they learn at this age.
During this time, it is important that you talk to and play with your children in the language in which you are able to express yourself properly and which you are familiar with.
With their first language, children learn to put their emotions, perceptions and thoughts into words and they become acquainted with the structures of learning a language: if they have once learned to express themselves in a sophisticated and precise way they will also aim at this method of learning for every other language.
Children from immigrated families will be required to learn the German language at the latest when they start Kindergarten or school. This will not demand too much of the cognitive development of your child; on the contrary: small children are able to learn two languages already at an early age.
Parents may support the bilingual development of their children even before and help them with their first steps into the Kindergarten group of school class. For this purpose, it is important for you as parents to learn to master the German language and to know what is important for your child in the Kindergarten and at school.
