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Why your bilingual child might refuse to speak your native language

I speak to my toddler in Spanish all day but she only responds in English and I'm starting to wonder if I'm fighting a losing battle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent confronts the limits of individual effort against the overwhelming cultural current of assimilation.

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