Thanks for the reply, Donna. I totally agree. I'm raising two trilingual girls as we speak now, so yeah, language is important!

The father of Minnie's son is producer 'Timothy J.Lea', he was born in Connecticut, but grew up in Australia.
They dated in 2008, they broke up by the time her son was born and he isn't that much involved in his son's life. She and her son reside in Los Angeles & the last I heard, she was having a dispute with her neighbor, an older gentleman who she claims is very voltaire/violent towards her and her son!
I'm only assuming she wants to teach her son a different language which is great, it's always cool to be bilingual or MORE!
-Donna
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OK, so this topic gets revived every now and then. I just want to make it clear (as the OP) that I understand 100% that anyone can (and should) teach their child any language they want, that's all good. My initial question here was if there was a specific reason for Minnie Driver teaching her child Spanish, the father being Spanish, having Spanish roots of some sort or anything. If so; that would be interesting. If not; no pasa absolutamente nada!

How come she speaks Spanish with her baby? The right question is, why WOULDN'T a parent try to teach their child all the languages they know?
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Welcome to the party, raf-33. I am a father of two trilingual girls and I know all the benefits of bilingualism. My initial post was just out of curiosity; was it "only" to widen his horizon or was there a reason as in father/nanny speaking Spanish. Only that

I'm a Brit who speaks Deutsch so I ask my son questions and he picks it up too. It's called parenting, I also kick a ball around with him but it doesn't mean I am grooming him to play for Scotland one day. Why does everything have to have a reason?
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Good reply, I was just thinking the same

Thank goodness she has you to judge her.

She lives in SoCal, where many of the nannies for the budget-minded are Spanish-speaking from Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America. She strikes me as someone who would quickly dispatch her child to the care of others, while trying to save a dime doing it.

Arabic..
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

Spanish is the second language of London, even the Queen speaks it

Like Sergio Garcia

Moors were Phoenician people. They originated in what is now Lebanon and colonised what is now Tunisia and Malta.

Moors were descended from Phoenicians who were ancestors of the modern Lebanese, Maltese and Tunisians.
Lawrence Olivier got it wrong when he played Othello as Black African.

All humans are from Africa -_-. Spain is in Europe though and Spaniards* are Caucasian. Yes the Moors did invade Spain, but that doesn't make them not Caucasian. Same way people from Mexico are mostly Mongoloid/Caucasian.

Spainards are a mix of indigenous and Moors from Africa.
They are not caucasian.
To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child. - Cicero

Spanish people are white. No not Spanish speaking people but actual Spanish people you know from Spain are white. In fact Mexican people are mostly just a mix of white and asian (or Mongoloids as the original Mexican people were Mongoloid which is the race of people from the Asian continent. Traveled this way from the ice bridge or something). The Spanish came and mixed with Mexico and what not to create what we know as Mexican today and their language became the standard.

Ding ding ding! You win the jackpot!

i am surprised that nobody else thought of this
her son understands spanish because the nanny probably taught him

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My gut tells me the father is Eddie Izzard, who was indeed a writer on The Riches.
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"On 5 September 2008, Minnie Driver gave birth to a boy named Henry Story Driver. She did not then reveal the identity of the father. In February 2012, she revealed that her son's father was a writer on her television show The Riches."

I recently did a film with minnie and got a chance to meet her son. She didn't speak spanish to him at all then.

LOL. Andrew Lloyd Webber as the father?