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[quote=Anonymous]OP- I am also raising a bilingual child and don't think this is rude at all. But it is something I also thought about. I agree with PPs who said it is okay when they are younger. When the kids are younger they are most likely not part of a bigger conversation where you break off and start speaking your language. You are directly addressing your kids, and can do so in your native tongue since you are raising them to be bilingual. This is the case because children resist speaking the "minority language" and tend to respond in the "majority language." Letting them see that you can switch languages makes this already difficult task much, much more so.
Now that my DS is 6, we switch between English and our language when around others. He has learned (ha! jinxing myself) that we speak our language at home and English is for around English speakers. 
As a side note- when we were in our home country and hung out with expats I never thought it rude when a mom or dad spoke in their language. 
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