Ana Flores, co-author of “Bilingual is Better,” explains that her reasons to raise a bilingual daughter are not only based on scientific research, but they come from the heart as well.

“For the last three and a half years I’ve been sharing on SpanglishBaby all the research that has been coming out from the scientific, linguistics and education fields that prove that bilingualism is better for children,” writes Flores. “All of these alone are excellent reasons to be convinced that bilingual truly is better for any child, yet for many of us parents with cultural and even nostalgic ties to a language, the reasons may come from the heart as well.” Read the complete story here.