The Second Language Is Mightier

If I ever do have kids, they're so learning a second language. And a third. And proficient knowledge of a fourth, if I can help it. Knowing a language other than the dominant one is so helpful when it comes to say, misplacing a mother's loving yet embarassing note to you in the Student Union, letting it lie there for all to see, pick up, and ultimately turn into the info desk where you know the kid on duty had looked through at least once. It's only loving and not embarassing is no one else can read what it says. Thank God for making all those years in ESL worthwhile.