Some of you may already know that I am writing my first paper on teaching children to be bilingual. This is a big controversy with one of my family members. My brother and his wife have two children, who don’t know a single thing in Spanish. She also comes from a Hispanic family who speak very little if any Spanish to the children. When the children go to their maternal grandparents home, they come back really confused, the grandparents tell them that they are not Mexican. Which, infuriates my family because why would you not want your children to know who they really are? I don’t only blame the grandparents but the parents as well. When the children come to our side of the family dinners or just to visit they are very confused because they hear us speaking in Spanish and they often ask what did you say? They often come to my home, and I try to teach them but they are reluctant to learn. I tell my sister-in-law that they need to teach them both languages. She often replies I know, that is why I want to send them to Mexico in the summer with your mom. Sorry but spending the summer in Mexico is not going to help them learn Spanish, and if they do learn it, they will forget it when they come back. We all know that they will not continue to talk to them in Spanish when they are here.(either you use it or lose it) I have a couple of friends who only spoke English and when they started hanging out with me they wanted to learn Spanish. They are both fluent in Spanish, and people often are surprised to hear them speak in Spanish! One of them has a seven year old son who she taught to speak Spanish. I was very pleased to know that my Spanish speaking abilities has benefit my friend.