Jaguars Cub Club Newsletter Cub Club Newsletter April 2017 | Page 7

GUAL T N E M P DEVELO Spring 2017 A s parents, it’s common to wonder if our children are developmentally on-task. From first steps to first words, we hang on to the importance of timetables and the number of new milestones we can cross off checklists. When it comes to speech development, toddlers between 1 and 2 years old should be past the babbling and cooing stage and starting to utter single words like “No” or Mama.” But what if your household is bilingual? In many homes today, children are growing up hearing and speaking more than one language. Cub Club Quarterly 7