The Brain on the Road: Why Travel Boosts Emotional Intelligence in Kids

The other day, my son and I talked about how he had been learning German on Duolingo. Then he asked me what languages I had been learning. I told him French and Spanish. 

We talked about how in different types of the world, the same language can be so incredibly different. This led to a conversation about my grandmother speaking “Cajun French,” and then quickly turned into a mini history lesson about how cajuns in Louisiana were forced out of Canada and immigrated here.  A moment of pure emotional‑intelligence gold.