回复: 请教小宝daycare及英语学习问题
Hi Selina.
It's difficult for me to type Chinese at work so I hope you don't mind my using English to make suggestions to you.
1. It depends on your budget. If you are wealthy, you can actually send your baby to daycare part time (for example, two to three hours a day for a few days a week) after 12 months. Our baby is in daycare full time now and he is 14 months old. Usually people send their babies to daycare at 2 or 3 years old. However, our baby seems to be doing well in daycare and has learned to follow some instructions. He lost some weight but is good spirited and seems to be doing well. Sending your baby to daycare also allows the baby to learn to interact with people and you can have some spare time for yourself and are in a good shape to take care of your baby.
2. For sure, if you want your baby to learn standard English, it should be a group daycare. However, group daycares usually accept babies older than 3 and you need to register well in advance.
3. Babies won't be confused with languages in the long run. Being exposed to different languages might delay the speak-learning process but won't confuse the baby. Don't worry about your baby picking up English in Canada. They pick up a language very easily. My first boy moved to here at 3.5 and he is speaking Mandarin, English and French well.
I hope the above is helpful.