1. Raising multilingual children : the ingredients, the recipes, and your personal banquet (why this book is for you) -- 2. The global community and multilingualism : who, why, when, where, and how being multilingual has grown in the past decade, and what this means for your children -- 3. Languages across the lifespan -- 4. How long does it take a non-native speaker to become fluent in a second, third, or subsequent language? -- 5. A special word about third languages -- 6. The brain and languages -- 7. Putting it all together : how this information shows us how to reach the potential of every multilingual -- 8. Our story.