Hello!
I am Barbara Bontempo
I am an educational counsellor with extensive international experience. I help parents raise their children multilingual while developing a true sense of identity and connection with family and the wide world.
Hello!
I am Barbara Bontempo
An ex-pat mother, a researcher in Education, a teacher in the International School system and a certified educational counsellor.
I developed an effective system that ensures parents plan the support their young child needs to become trilingual or bilingual before the age of six. Openseas LEARNING
I was already an educator when our family started the international journey more than 20 years ago. I knew I wanted my children to speak English besides our mother tongue. Then, with my interest in local languages, I started getting very ambitious and confused about all the languages they could learn! Private tutoring, online lessons, new learning apps and this crazy advice of exposing children to as many languages as possible as early as possible… We made so many mistakes!
I was lucky to be working in highly academic contexts so I took the time to review the research and learned a plethora of sound solutions while serving other families that live internationally. That’s how I developed an effective system that ensures parents plan the support their children really need to make the most of their international experience.
