Charlotte BULKELEY CREDLE

Many of us know the lullaby Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star as a sweet bedtime song about a little star shining in the sky. But the story behind the melody is much older and more interesting than it seems. The tune actually comes from an 18th-century French song called “Ah ! vous dirai-je, maman” — and the original words had nothing to do with stars. The French lyrics are written from the perspective of a child speaking to their mother. The child says that their father wants them to think and...

Nursing, teething, crawling, and starting solids are challenging in your mother tongue, much less trying to navigate it in your second language. These are the French words I'm using for six month old baby development and a few other French things I've used this week while raising bébé bilingual.

The newest Système D employee is also my littlest client: my six month old! Beginning my documentation of raising my baby bilingual.