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an anecdote from when my son is younger and Alex is a minimal speaker.

So he has some words, basic requests and things, but he is much more expansive and elegant when he spells.

When he was probably about five or six, we bought a trampoline for the backyard.

My husband's French.

We initially raised Alex bilingual, but we pulled back because we didn't want to further complicate language acquisition.

But we continued to speak to our younger son in French.

Let's interpret it through this lens is going to be so important.