by Emilie | 8-06-2022 | Education, News BilingualChildrenLearning FrenchSummer
While Summer is around the corner, parents don’t always want to look for vacation notebooks or struggle to get their children to read, or beg them to please spend ten minutes a week on a smart app… Good news! I suggest that you look at things from another... 
by Anne Marie | 25-04-2022 | Food, News, Shopping BilingualBookChildrenWoman Entrepreneur
Here is the adventure of Camille Mallet, a long-time expatriate who publishes a book of pastry recipes accessible to children entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Dragon. This professional pastry chef, who recently moved from China to Marin County, a mother of two... 
by Emilie | 24-01-2022 | Education, News, Schools, Settle In BilingualChildrenFrench movies with subtitlesLearning French
What better and more convenient way to progress in a foreign language than to watch films or series in their original version? This is probably what you did if you challenged yourself to speak a foreign language different from your mother tongue. And why not proceed... 
by Emilie | 11-10-2021 | Education, Schools BilingualChildrenFrench LanguageLitterature
Here is the second article in a series of four in which I suggest ten books for your child to read from CE2 (3rd grade) to CM2 (5th grade). Click here for the first article K-2. I chose these books for the diversity of the topics covered, for the richness of the... 
by MerciSF | 23-11-2020 | News BalletBook in FrenchChildrenXmas gifts
Carol Talmon de l’Armée, a French ballet teacher and dancer, just published her first book series called Ballerina Belle (the series is available in French and very soon in English) Trained at Rosella Hightower, the famous French Riviera dance school, Carol... 
by Sabrina | 8-03-2019 | Clothing, Shopping ChildrenFashionFrench brandskidskids clothingMini ChicSlow FashionSunnyvale
Baby Dior, Petit Bateau, Bonpoint, Bonton, Bout’Chou… are some of the brands that you will find at Mini-Chic. Mini-Chic is the infants and children second-hand clothing store located in the Castro district, on 18th St. Along with the slow fashion movement,... 
by Anne Marie | 26-02-2019 | Schools, Settle In ChildrenConsulateEFBAin FrenchLearning
This is a concern shared by many parents when it comes to send children to school. Do you enroll them in a foreign language school or in the American system? We will not choose for you but there are many and flexible options to choose from: Start in the French system...
