No kids myself. Yet I was raised in a bilingual family. Actually mom spoke three and dad spoke seven. Yet German was the family language.
I learned, yet I didn't learn it very well at all. Not even after going to Germany.
I preferred the language of my friends and those around school and of course babysitters.
I didn't spend a lot of time with family. The next youngest was 16 years older than me.
Interesting that you mentioned mixing words.
My mother, late in Life, actually did mix words of all three languages. Not my father though.
