Tag Archives: bilingual

Edgar Chose Selena Quintanilla Perez For His Social Studies Project: We’ve Got Material For That!

Se los prometo that he made the selection entirely on his own!  En serio.  For reals.  No, but like for reals.  Yesterday when I got home the first thing Edgar told me when I got…

My Mamá Is Gangsta: Sending Tamales Via USPS!

I wouldn’t normally say this about my mother, much less in front of her, as she would either: a) be insulted by the use of the word “gangster” to describe her, even if it is…

Starting This Sunday PARADE Magazine Promises More Latinos In Their Weekly Issues

Starting this Sunday, PARADE Magazine, the nation’s most widely read magazine in the US with a reported circulation of 32.5 million and readership of nearly 60 million, promises to feature more Latinos than ever on…

Raising a Bilingual Kid: One Generation at a Time – Progress

Every once in a while, if we’re lucky, and it doesn’t happen all that often at all, we kind of get a glimpse at ourselves that we normally wouldn’t otherwise see.  I know it sounds…

Rolling Stone On Why They’re Trying a Bilingual Issue

So last Friday, for the first time in its 45 year history, one of nation’s most premiere music and entertainment magazine’s, Rolling Stone published its first ever bilingual English and Spanish edition.  While the issue…

Raising a Bilingual Kid & Reading Culturally Significant Books – ‘Caramelo’

Shut up stupid!  That was the line that got Edgar cracking up last night while we were reading Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros.  This is my second time reading the book.  His first.  After that, it…