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When your child rejects their heritage language

My teenage son refuses to speak Arabic at home anymore and when I try to correct him he rolls his eyes and says we live in America now and I feel like I am losing him to a place that does not even fully accept us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The pain of watching your child distance themselves from their cultural identity while you fear losing the deepest connection you share.

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