Bilingualism and Denaskuleco

I don't wanna preach how to raise children, but picking esperanto as a second language to teach the kids is going to be a very uphill battle.

It's not the native language of anyone, especially in the family so they are not going to be as exposed to it as one would in a family with a non- english native. And then there's no esperanto anywhere else so they are going to learn quickly they don't need it at all except for when daddy says something in esperanto.

growing up bilingual is much easier when your immediate family / community speak the "first language"

now that im surrounded by Americans, its much harder to justify the mental load of teaching a non-scholastic second language when there is no community to reinforce what youve learned beyond rote learning exercises. im not convinced multiple languages made me smarter either...

Given that the parents aren’t native Esperanto speakers themselves, would this make the version of Esperanto that the children speak a sort of Creole?

I didn’t know my excellent former Linear Algebra professor spoke Esperanto, but it totally fits!