Mother and Father tongue
It was our pediatrician who eventually decided to refer our 3 year old to a speech therapist having seen little progress in his language development over the preceding 12 months, but it was our pediatrician himself who gave us the best advice as to how to solve the issue. His opinion was that our son put no value on the English language, after all he could see no use for it, as every other child he met spoke French or German. English was just this bizarre marginalised language that his parents spoke - and what child truly wants to be like their parents? His sage advice was this "He needs to spend at least a month in the UK if he is to put any value on the language". It might seem bizarre to some that we had not spent any significant amont of time in the UK since moving to Strasbourg, but hell we'd spent the best part of our lives in the UK and simply loved Stasbourg to bits - why on earth would we slope back [...]