Give your children a second language.

Children learn a language the way they learn to walk. By trying. By falling. By being answered.

No app can answer them. People can.

That is why so many children who start a language at school end up losing it. Not because they were bad students. Because nobody at home used it.

So use it at home.

One reading a day. The same passage in two languages, side by side. At breakfast. At bedtime. In the car.

You read a line. They read the next. They get a word wrong. You laugh. They try again. Tomorrow the word they tapped comes back, just before they forget it.

A child who speaks their grandmother’s language inherits more than words.

A child who reads the books that formed the world inherits more than a résumé.

Leaders raise readers.