aysa,

My answer here will be a mix of my opinion with what I read and what I experienced.

Well, the best way is to have a natural environment, such as: you speak to the kid language A, your spouse speak language B, between you and your spouse you use a language C and live in a country with language D. But of course it doesn't happen to all.

I've seen several people here in BK using LR to expose kids to several languages with great results. So, I consider LR a great tool.
What you said is also an approach. You can choose a day of week to immerse the kid in that language and also culture. This is explained in a book called The bilingual edge. I wrote a little bit about this book and another one that I liked very much here: http://www.nnsparents.com/topic/parents-should-only-use-their-mother-tongues-with-their-kids/

Your welcome aysa. Anytime you need just ask 

Hi aysa,

About languages you don’t speak, it is of course a little bit more difficult and in my view and knowledge it depends of your approach.
I am trying to teach Japanese to my son. A language that I do not speak. Therefore, I am using video as resources so far. However, I don’t expect him to be fluent just with this. My expectation is that in the future, when he have classes, it will help him to learn faster.
To be fluent, the most common options are a school that will provide an immersion in the target language, trips to a place where the target language is used and hiring a nanny that not only can speak the language but will be committed to use only that. I hope this helps you.

Congratulations for this progress. It is also great to hear from you.

Hi Jon!

My son is two years old, so he is not old enough to play properly, but he likes it and he understood some concepts. If you allow me, I'll leave here a suggestion.
For his age, I think a step by step progress during a game is better. I mean, he uses one command and press PLAY to see what happens. It will of course not finish the stage. Then, he places another command and press play to see the difference of this new command added. The problem is that he understood that the red bar over a command means it is wrong. But in this case where the problem is that the next command is missing, the red bar stays over the last command added. So he thinks that he placed wrongly the last command instead of understanding the the problem is that the command in sequence is needed. The consequence is that he changes the last command to a wrong one. My suggestion is to put the red bar over the next blank square, or maybe a "?" on this next square.

I don't know if I made myself clear, if not, don't worry about asking me.

Hi Jon!

Welcome to this community.
And you did a great job. A year ago I was asking about something like this on this forum and I totally agree with the methodology.

TmT, you made a good list questions.

As a programmer, I agree with Jon. I believe the important point here is to help people to start thinking as programmers. Much more important than the syntax is the foundation for programming. In a early stage, visual programming will let a kid to understand that a sequence of commands is not something happening at the time of writing, but something to be done later if someone happens to execute it. This will be very important later with Object Oriented Programming, where what you write is not a sequence of what will happen, but a list of things that can happen. This is something that at my University a lot of students took months to figure out.

Regarding the computer question, I also have the same doubt for later. iPad is great for now that my son is 2, but later is important to know how things really happens and how a computer is made. But I don't know how safe this will be.

I also don't watch the news. And I also don't like my son to watch it but when there are guests at home or we are in the house of someone else we can't avoid. I also find it depressive. I read the news that are interesting to me but honestly I don't mind about most news about crime and accidents, because they happen all the time and unless it is something that will really prevent something bad from happening, I don't think that the daily disaster is a knowledge to acquire.
The other day my son was impressed with a crashed truck so I saw how it can be important to a young mind.

Another option:

http://primo.io/

Hi Richardcam

I agree with MammaOfWill, I also think your child knows the difference of the languages.

About what to do in those situations, I read that it is more effective when you keep the target language, without switching it. So, if she said in German and you understood, you can repeat in English and let it go on. Later, when the conversation is in German she will be able to use the word. She'll learn that very quickly 

More on the awareness of the importance of code
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6XvmhE1J9PY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6XvmhE1J9PY&rel=1</a>

That is really incredible. It is in a crowdfunding stage. Good time for early adopters to buy.

It is very recent. I hope they add more videos, like Rachel and the Treeschoolers

Hello friends!

I couldn't believe last night when I saw on a Homeschooling group that Signing Time was on American Netflix. I was about to sleep but I went to check if it was true and I was almost waking up my son LOL

We have Baby Signing Time DVDs but not Signing Time at home.
As Rachel said about her new project, her videos are too educational to go mainstream so I was never expecting it.

For those like me who are not in US but wants to access US Netflix, there is this post: http://www.nnsparents.com/topic/how-to-watch-us-netflix/

Enjoy it!

I never thought about this as a goal, but this is really interesting.

I guess since I had my Economy classes at college I started to value less working by myself on things that I'm not specialized, but today I'm feeling the lack of it. I even know how to do things but I just don't like because that wasn't part of my life.

Anyway, I'm always teaching some related stuff to my son. I tell him about car parts in his toys, I show him the running engine of my car. There is also an great documentary called IMAX: Legends of the sky featuring A380 and the Dreamliner. They show with great computer graphics resources how things are working from inside. Also I encourage my son to play with Lego Duplo. He is 24 months and last week he made an airplane, a dog and a Space Shuttle.

I also teach him about house and train pieces. At some point I asked myself: what am I creating? Or in another way, I was really asking myself what kind of seed I was planting on his mind. I don't know. Maybe he can grow really gifted for handy work, or maybe he will prefer just to project things, just like me, but because of the same seed.

Anyway, I'm glad I saw your topic because it made me think a lot. Also, even when I went to college after already having a technical degree, I don't consider I had enough information to decide for my future. So I think the LR Lesson proposed by CVMomma is a great idea.

Well FLKL,

I wasn't expecting my son to repeat words from TV so soon but it did happen yesterday, so the TV influence may be bigger that what I was thinking. I wrote about this here:

http://www.nnsparents.com/topic/acquiring-language-with-tv-here-one-case-with-my-son/