The article is dedicated to family language policy and the upbringing of bilingual children. In recent years, both topics have been the subject of socio-linguistic research. Based on a well-established theory methodology, interviews with 20 Polish-speaking mothers born in Germany or raised since an infant in Ratizbon were analysed. Information was obtained on parenting strategies in a bilingual family in a context of distributed emigration. The key aspect of the study was to identify the relationship between axiological attitudes towards education and consensual attitudes towards the transmission of the Polish language. To this end, typologies of both types of parental attitudes are presented. The results show that the choice of German as the language of parent-child communication is based on social pressure or the need to improve the efficiency of communication. Finally, issues related to the intergenerational transmission of the Polish language in the context of state education policy were discussed.