Teach your children to learn a new language, if you want them to adjust well in this increasingly diverse world.

The world today is a big melting pot of culture. Diversity is the new color in the already colorful world. You’ll find every shade and color in this world, and it has become essential for one to learn more than one language.

In fact, many people are bilingual nowadays. We speak more than one language, and that not only helps us adjust to the world but also helps us sharpen our mind. Studies have shown that learning a second language helps with our cognitive skills like multitasking, greater memory power, longer attention span, and reduce the risk of age related degeneration. Since, the world is so diverse learning a new language will help you experience other cultures firsthand and make it easier to form cross culture friendships. Usually the biggest problem two people from different country encounter when they meet is the language barrier. In business when people from different countries meet they sometimes use interpreters, but that is also fraught with the risk of miscommunication. So learning the language of your business partners will reduce the possibility of risk, and leave a good impression on them.

So encourage your kids to learn more languages besides their own mother tongue. It will help them to adjust culturally to this diverse world in the future.