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Little Pim was just featured by two terrific media outlets this month: New York Metro Parents and Parent Guide.
New York Metro Parents is an award-winning magazine in New York City that parents turn to for guidance on education, health, activities, and parenting tips. They interviewed me in an article entitled Language is a Family Affair.
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This morning I had the exciting opportunity to be interviewed by Sarah French (a Little Pim-approved surname!) on the Fox61 Connecticut morning show about foreign language learning for kids.
Sarah was interested in knowing why it’s so much easier for young children to absorb a new language and at what age they should start — you [...]

Our world is becoming more and more crowded with media.  Whether in our living rooms, on our commutes or in our classrooms, every waking moment can be occupied by consuming media. Whether it’s looking up “what causes earthquakes” on Google with my eldest son Emmett and finding a video to explain it, or the news feeds [...]

Great news: Good Day LA on Fox 11 News featured Little Pim! Jillian Reynolds, a host for the show, included Little Pim in her Style File segment entitled “Jill’s Favorite Baby Gifts.” She gushed over Spanish Bop, our Word & Phrase Cards, and of course the DVDs. I’m so happy to help her daughter, Ruby, [...]

BusinessWeek has just named Little Pim one of America’s Most Promising Startups! We’re featured third in a list of 89 small businesses.
The article by Nick Leiber touched on why I created Little Pim, the language teaching legacy I inherited from my father, and Little Pim’s growth trajectory to date.
The article also mentioned our soon-to-be-released Little [...]

Last week the New York Times reported on the unfortunate rate at which foreign language education programs in schools in the northeast are being cut to help balance budgets. If you’ve been following my blog, you probably share in my belief that speaking a foreign language is no longer an expendable luxury but an [...]

Brad Pitt recently said in an interview that raising multilingual children and spending so much time in France is making him wish he’d learned a foreign language (Parade, September 9th). While it’s never too for Brad or any adult who wants to pick up another language, experts agree it is much easier to learn [...]

Unraveling How Children Become Bilingual
Yahoo! picked up a great article by Associated Press medical author Lauran Leergaard on the widely discussed topic of how children learn languages with such ease. Scientists continue to unravel the neurology behind language learning. This research says that the ideal window for one to become fluent in a second language [...]

Pick up this month’s issue of American Baby magazine for a peek into the family behind Little Pim!