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When Children Choose One Language for Conflict

I'm raising my kids trilingual but they fight in English and I worry they're not learning emotional regulation in their heritage languages.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional development patterns may become locked into the dominant cultural language rather than heritage linguistic systems.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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