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					  <title><![CDATA[Global Children Become Global Citizens]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/339528/1/Global-Children-Become-Global-Citizens/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Here are some fun stats to bank away for future cocktail party conversation.  More than 28 million people in our country speak Spanish as their native language.  Learning Spanish opens up the door of communication with more than 350 million people worldwide.  Adults who enjoyed being bilingual for a majority of their lives experience a four-year delay of the onset of dementia and dementia like symptoms.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Five Top Reasons To Start Spanish Now]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/327900/1/Five-Top-Reasons-To-Start-Spanish-Now/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Starting today you can easily begin introducing Spanish to your young child with no teaching experience required or any second language knowledge necessary.  Many parents sometimes wonder why I suggest Spanish over the other many languages of the world.  As a mom of three bilingual children and as an educator of thousands of children I will provide you with the top five reasons why you should start Spanish fun in your daily routine today.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Toddlers Easily Learn Spanish While They Learn English]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/319576/1/Toddlers-Easily-Learn-Spanish-While-They-Learn-English/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[As a mother of three children myself, I often times wonder how these myths take flight and never run out of steam.  I remember almost eighteen years ago when my first was born that the rage was natural childbirth and listening to classical music during your pregnancy so that the child would enter our world wired for advanced cognitive abilities.  <BR>
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Then some research experts squelched the in utero theory by saying that it was all hogwash that the child would be able to recognize sounds, voices, and particular pitches.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Discovering Languages and the Ability a Child Has to Learn Them]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/313027/1/Discovering-Languages-and-the-Ability-a-Child-Has-to-Learn-Them/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Maybe you have heard that there exists more than 6,000 languages in our world and that they are under threat.  Similar to becoming extinct, many of these languages are at risk of not being preserved for various reasons.  It is time that those of us in the United States make a strong push for diversity in the language curriculum of our schools.  Why is it that they still tell the joke about the word American defining a person who speaks only one language?  Why are we not outraged by that perspective other countries and their people have on us?<BR>
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The young children of today are our hope for a future full of language diversity, appreciation of other cultures, and a world of more peace and love.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Top Three Benefits of Learning a Second Language Early in Life]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/312122/1/The-Top-Three-Benefits-of-Learning-a-Second-Language-Early-in-Life/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Parents and teachers today are increasingly aware of the need to raise their children to be bilingual.  They have witnessed an ever growing need for acquiring new languages and mastering the awareness of other cultures.  Preparing our young children of today for the world of tomorrow is not only our responsibility but our immediate task at hand.  Experts continually report, the earlier the better when it comes to introducing a second language to children ages birth through ten.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Teaming up with Parents to Jump Start Language Learning for Your Child]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/302944/1/Teaming-up-with-Parents-to-Jump-Start-Language-Learning-for-Your-Child/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[We have heard it said a thousand times before and yet we still struggle with what the best path is.  The window of opportunity to introduce a second language to our children is way before our traditional school system even thinks about it.  Experts are saying between birth and five years old is when the optimum time exists to bring a new language into our family routine.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Debate Rages On While Children Still Learn and Play]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/293833/1/The-Debate-Rages-On-While-Children-Still-Learn-and-Play/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Parents look at me with confusion on their faces or call me with anxiety in their voices.  They all wonder if they are doing the right thing.  Many are on waiting lists to be have their child participate in a dual immersion program at a local magnet school, while others fork over hundreds and hundreds of dollars to have their toddler attend language immersion classes once a week.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Bilingual Beats Lead to Language, Literacy and Math Fun]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.BigArticles.com/articles/285763/1/Bilingual-Beats-Lead-to-Language-Literacy-and-Math-Fun/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Never has it been this easy to find materials to bring education into your home as a stay at home mom, a grandparent given the distinct and honorable task of watching your grandchildren or as a homeschooling parent striving to do the best you can do.  The internet has provided us the means to seek and download countless varieties of educational materials along with the medium to research other instructional products for purchasing.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Made in the USA - Perspectives of a Mom, Teacher and Entrepreneur]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[There seems to be three specific categories of people directly affected by this 2007 'Outrage of the Lead Locators.'  <BR>
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There are the moms controling most of the family's discretionary buying power who, when faced with screaming children and end-caps galore this holiday season,will surely succumb to the wails which imply there is no caring of the country of origin (just buy it!!!).]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Why Would You Want to Introduce a Second Language to Your Young Child?]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[There seems to be a general tone among parents today when it comes to the topic of helping their child learn a second language, particularly English-speaking parents of young children. Just this morning, in our local Starbucks, a mom approached me after seeing the magnetic signs on my car that tout my business and its benefits. She asked me if I also taught adults Spanish, to which I quickly and definitively replied with a negative, a no.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Beth Butler)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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