A really stupid thing many American school districts apparently do, is to require that people stop speaking their native language with their children and switch to English instead. The mistaken thinking that goes into this probably includes something like
learning a language is great effort, so learning two languages doubles all learning efforts in all subjects
i.e. a kid who is learning maths needs to learn maths twice to master it in both languages. We do know this to be mistaken, and we even know now that bilinguals potentially do better than non-bilinguals. Maybe talking about the same things a bit in more than one language by random chance will resolve potential ambiguities?
It turns out that this common policy not only is mistaken, in the sense that it does not solve the problem it sets out to solve, but even worse, in that it often creates new problems. One of these is that bonding between parents and children can be impacted negatively if the language they use is replaced by another language.
Thus, if you decide to exclusively speak a conlang to your child - which basically is what you need to do if you want the child to learn it - you have to be ready to go in there for the really long run.
Are you sure your love for your own hobby is that strong? Are you sure you're in for such a commitment? A child is a big enough commitment on itself, adding this to the equation seems rather heavy.
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