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[quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up I remember hearing that bilingual families should follow the "one parent, one language" rule where each parent only speaks to the child in one language to prevent the child from confusing the languages. I'm now reading that this is unnecessary.

"Some families decide that each parent will speak a different language to the child. But the child will be able to sort out the two languages even if both parents speak them both, Dr. Hoff said. “There is certainly no research to suggest that children need to have languages lined up with speakers or they get confused.” On the other hand, that rule could be a way of making sure that the non-English language is used."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/well/family/raising-a-truly-bilingual-child.html

I'm curious if folks know of any more detailed, up to date resources for bilingual families.

Back story is I grew up speaking Spanish at home and English at school.  As described in the article English became my dominant language, but my Spanish is still decent though I have less vocabulary in it.  I've started speaking in Spanish to DD when it's just the two of us (DH is not a Spanish-speaker) but grandparents are concerned about language confusion.[/quote]

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