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Before I had kids, I would look disdainfully at bilingual parents whose kids couldn’t utter a syllable in Spanish.
Now, I know what they were up against.
I spoke to my daughter exclusively in Spanish for the first two years of her life. But while I worked three full days a week, Natalie was speaking English with her babysitter.
Between cartoons and videos, and later, daycare, Spanish receded into the background. It got to the point where I was lamely reading bilingual bedtime stories and having to interpret every fourth word for my frustrated child.”*
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