Words of wisdom from my awesome son-in-law on Facebook this morning. My daughter is a very lucky woman.

[cksmithy]

38. My daughter had a spanish speaking care giver, at her day care. My daughter was her favorite,

she heard spanish and was cuddled by her when she was a baby and toddler. The babysitter knew very little english, she was a refugee from El Salvador. So years later, my daughter takes high school spanish, the teacher tells us during a 9th grade parent conference/visit, that my daughter has a funny accent, but wow she is excelling in Spanish class. The teacher has never had a english only speaker progress this well. We tell her she heard of a lot of spanish as a baby and toddler. That appears to explain her success. She took Spanish all four years of high school.

Funny story, my daughter always wore wildly patterned socks to school. So one day, she's walking down the hall in school and over hears two girls noticing and kind of making fun of her socks, She didn't respond to them, but she knew what they were saying. Laughed her head off, telling us the story. She was happy they noticed her socks. They didn't have a clue she understood them.