You Know What Happens If No One Does Anything
You've probably already seen it in your own family. A grandparent who spoke Armenian every day of their life. Parents who understood it but answered back in English. Kids who grew up hearing it at gatherings but never learning to speak it themselves. By the next generation, the language is gone, not because anyone decided to let it go, but because no one built a way to hand it down while there was still time. That's the part that sits with a lot of parents: heritage doesn't disappear all at once. It thins out quietly, one generation that didn't have a plan at a time. If you're raising a child in Northridge or anywhere in the San Fernando Valley and you can already feel your own Armenian slipping, or you never had much of it to begin with, you're not the first parent to worry that your child will end up with even less than you did.
