Importance of teaching your mother tongue to your child

[zeenat goyal]

Mother tongue is a repository of culture
and makes people what they are
and who they are...

If we start speaking other languages and forget our own, we would never be ourselves.
We would be clones of an alien people; and be aliens to ourselves...
We need to maintain our identity wherever we are.
Our identity is our mother tongue,
Let not our new generations be called XYZ born confused Desi's
 
A research unit at George Mason University in Virginia has monitored results at twenty three primary schools in fifteen States since 1985. Four out of six different curricula involved were partly conducted in the mother tongue. The survey shows that, after eleven years of schooling, there is a direct link between academic results and the time spent learning in the mother tongue.

It is proved that those who perform the best in secondary school, have knowledge of their mother tongue.

So why can't our mother tongue be the second language you teach your child.