The development of communication skills in children can help build positive interpersonal relationships. Effective communication skills help children to manage their emotions and to solve conflict without violence.
Review two stages of childhood, middle childhood, when children build on what they learned in early childhood, and early adolescence, when children begin to undergo the changes associated with puberty.
At a time when 31 states have passed "English Only" laws, four pioneering families put their children in public schools where, from the first day of kindergarten, their teachers speak mostly in a foreign language.