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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Playseum story. We were at the one in Bethesda and this adorable little girl spoke to my daughter in French. The mother said quickly and smugly  in English "oh, don't bother honey, they don't speak French." Later, I overheard her bragging to some other mom about how it was sooo hard to find appropriate playmates for her dd because she's in a French immersion program. Sure lady, THAT's exactly the problem. [/quote]
You were there so you know better what the mom was like, but we actually have been in similar situations, and I promise you I am not smug. I speak only my heritage language to my son so it happens to be his primary language right now, so when he addresses other kids (he's 3), it will most likely be in my language. At that point I tell him to speak "the way they speak in daycare", because I make a highly scientific guess (:) that the other kid probably won't speak our language but will speak English instead. I will not complain that it is difficult to find playdates because I don't care what language they speak on playdates. Any chance the mom was just trying to guide her son into doing what's socially appropriate, i.e. speak a language the other kid is likely to know?[/quote]

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