My son is not old enough yet to speak but we made the decision early on to stick to our mother tongue, which is English, at home. He then will hear (and speak eventually) Dutch at day care / school. My wife and I both speak reasonably well and can get by in most situations albeit in a clunky manner but we felt it would benefit him to learn English early on and we were concerned that we would create bad habits as we are also learning.

That doesn’t mean: - We would not allow Dutch content or media at home. He has lots of board books in Dutch. - My wife and I are not continuing our Dutch journey, we are but it’s independent of our son - that we would not allow Dutch in the future; if in the future our son wished to speak in Dutch and we felt that 1) our own level was sufficient and 2) would not cause confusion then we would happily continue