> while my kids seem to default to English somehow. > I speak English with them You seem to know the answer already :) Kids regularly find "more reliable" adu

> while my kids seem to default to English somehow. > I speak English with them You seem to know the answer already :) Kids regularly find "more reliable" adults and weight their opinion, manners and ideas higher than others, so if you're mainly speaking English to them, they'll default to trying to adopt to that, even if the main language is different all around them.