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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, my friends talk to their kids in their language all the time. Its usually when they're scolding their kids or making demands. I wish I could talk to my kid in a language nobody else understood for saying things like "get your finger out of your nose!" Or "did you just take a bite of that potato chip and put it back in the bowl?!"Or whatever. [/quote]

Haha! That's exactly the kind of talk I am having with my kids when I speak in our language. "Stop whining and share or we are going home right this minute" etc. etc. [/quote]

This is my experience too, in a neighborhood where we've got at least four non-English languages spoken by parents. It never occurred to me that it could be rude. I don't need to know what a parent is saying to their kid and 95%, I'm pretty sure it's scolding only in Russian or Spanish instead of English and who cares? My vote is strongly for not rude, I encounter this basically every time I'm at the playground.[/quote]

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