Raising bilingual children can be challenging, but it is also rewarding — for parents and children alike.

It’s one of those odd quirks of language that makes true bilingualism so difficult to achieve; in French, the person who will be missed (“tu”) is the subject of the verb and the person experiencing the feeling (“me”) is the object, whereas in English it is the opposite.

We need a moratorium on children’s use of social media. On 2 September 2021, French children born in 2010 started secondary school (or “...