Bilingual Kids: A Practical Guide for Raising Multilingual Children

Larry Larry Mackey is a writer, researcher, and father of three trilingual children raised in Spanish, French, and English. He holds a master's degree in applied linguistics from Georgetown University and has spent over fifteen years studying child language acquisition and bilingual family dynamics. As the founder of the Bilingual Parenting Collective, he has worked with hundreds of families across North America, Europe, and Asia to develop practical, research-backed strategies for raising multilingual children. He speaks four languages—English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese—and continues to research how families sustain minority languages across generations in increasingly globalized communities. His writing on bilingual parenting has appeared in *Parents* magazine, *Multilingual Living*, and *The Bilingual Family Journal*, and he has been a featured speaker at the International Symposium on Bilingualism and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in a bilingual English-Spanish household, Mackey now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and three children, where they navigate trilingual family life one meal, one story, and one conversation at a time.