Welcome to Medical Personal Finance, a show dedicated providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets, and I'm your host, and today we continue our How to Invest in Your

Children When They're Young Series. Not the catchiest of titles, but it is something that I believe

very passionately is under-discussed and under-appreciated in the marketplace of ideas,

which is why I'm taking a significant amount of time here in the podcast to go through it.

We began by talking about all of the the basic things that make up your child's

genetic material. Then we talked about investing into your child's body in various ways,

and now we're talking about investing into your child's mind. We talked about word acquisition,

literacy, and mathematics and numeracy, and now I want to pivot to multilingualism because

I think multilingualism, meaning helping your child to acquire more than one native language,

is a very clear example, not only of how you can make your children smarter,

both in, I believe, the physical sense of actively stimulating the gray matter that's between

their ears, but also kind of in the more commonplace sense, meaning you're smarter when you know

more things, you're smarter when you have a greater appreciation of the world, and multilingualism

accomplishes both of those senses. Not only is this a good example of making your children smarter,

but it's also a good example of the importance of beginning while young. So before I talk about

the benefits of multilingualism, I want to take a few minutes and emphasize the importance

of starting when you are young. I want to begin that with a story. I want to share with you the

story of how I learned my first second language, which was Spanish. I grew up in South Florida. I

was surrounded by Spanish speaking people on occasion, but I had no consistent exposure to the language.

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