The big studies of preschool programs found that classroom gains mostly fade by third grade, but the gains in the family held: when parents read more, told more stories, spent more time, those changes lasted. The classroom ends; the family never does. Your home is the soil, and what your family already does at the table is the real curriculum. If your deepest language is not English, hear this clearly: your language is not a problem to be solved. It is one of the most valuable things you will ever give your child. Comfort, correction, blessing, story: these work best in the language you dream in. The school will teach English; it always does. Only you can give the mother tongue. Home and school are two threads. Your child is the cloth, and yours is the thread that runs the full length of their life.