Maya

Maya is a bilingual educator raising trilingual kids in English, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. She writes about multilingual learning, heritage language preservation, and how stories help kids embrace multiple cultures.

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Articles by Maya (13)

Personalized Multilingual Storybooks: Stories in 30+ Languages Your Child Will Love

Finding quality children's books in your heritage languages is hard enough. Finding personalized ones? Nearly impossible...

April 14, 2026 • 6 min read

How to Raise a Bilingual Child at Home: A Practical Guide for Busy Parents

A trilingual educator shares the strategies that actually work (and the ones that flopped) for raising bilingual kids at...

April 15, 2026 • 6 min read

How to Preserve Heritage Language at Home for Kids (When Everything Around Them Is English)

A bilingual mom's honest story of almost losing her daughter's Vietnamese, and the small daily habits that pulled her ba...

April 22, 2026 • 6 min read

Is Code Switching Bad for My Bilingual Child? What the Research Actually Says

A bilingual educator and trilingual mom on why code-switching is a sign of linguistic skill, not confusion, and what the...

April 24, 2026 • 6 min read

OPOL One Parent One Language: A Bilingual Parenting Strategy Guide That Actually Works

A trilingual educator breaks down the OPOL one parent one language strategy guide, how it stacks up against mL@H and tim...

May 1, 2026 • 6 min read

How to Maintain Heritage Language After Kids Start School: The Ages 5-7 Cliff Almost Got Us

A trilingual mom on the heartbreaking ages-5-to-7 cliff: when school starts, the heritage language goes quiet. Here's wh...

May 1, 2026 • 6 min read

The Best Spanish-English Bilingual Personalized Children's Book (Hispanic Heritage Edition)

A pillar guide to the best Spanish English bilingual personalized children's book for Latino families. Brand comparison,...

May 6, 2026 • 14 min read

Mandarin-English Bilingual Storybooks for Kids: How Chinese-American Families Keep the Language Alive

A bilingual educator and Chinese-American mom on the kindergarten English-only switch and the Mandarin English bilingual...

May 6, 2026 • 6 min read

When to Start Teaching Your Baby a Second Language (And Why "Now" Is Almost Always the Answer)

A bilingual mom and educator on the real research-backed answer to when to start teaching baby a second language, plus a...

May 7, 2026 • 6 min read

How to Raise a Bilingual Child When You Aren't a Native Speaker (Yes, Really)

A bilingual educator pushes back on the "you have to be a native speaker" myth and walks through three strategies that a...

May 13, 2026 • 6 min read

Vietnamese-English Personalized Books for Kids (When You Want Your Child to Read in Tiếng Việt, Too)

A bilingual educator and Vietnamese-American mom reviews the Vietnamese English bilingual children's books for kids that...

May 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Hindi-English Bilingual Books for Kids: Personalized Stories for Indian Diaspora Families

A bilingual educator on the Hindi heritage problem and the 5 best hindi english bilingual books for kids personalized fo...

May 21, 2026 • 7 min read

Arabic-English Personalized Children's Books: Right-to-Left Stories for Bilingual Muslim Families

A bilingual educator on the RTL rendering problem that breaks most arabic english personalized children's books, and the...