When Kit Strauss couldn’t find educational materials that she felt would help her children learn a second language, the suburban Maryland mom-and lawyer-turned-entrepreneur created better products herself. And she got her children involved – with the aim of appealing to students as well as their parents.

“Kids like watching other kids,” says Kit, and “my children and their friends were my guide as what was fun and humorous and what kids would enjoy as we created the videos and games.”

The result has been a successful, award-winning language learning program called “Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids” (FLK).