We had Nintento. Kids today have Vine. We had VCRs. They have bluetooth and DVD players. We had cassette tapes and then CD players. They have iPods and iPhones. We had beepers. They have iPads and tablets. We had watches with cartoons and superheroes on the wristbands. They have smartwatches […]
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 crazy, but it’s true. It happened to me just the other day. A local university […]
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 took me all of five minutes to get him to stop laughing en carcajadas so we […]
What are hardworking parents to do these days when they can’t find the time to teach their children the language skills they want? ¿Pues qué más? Hire a bilingual nanny! At least, that’s what the website FindaNanny.net is insinuating in their latest post, 10 Ways Bilingual Nannies Can Benefit Children. […]
This week, we finally connected the internet to our television at home. Don’t ask me how I did it. The truth is I don’t actually remember. I just kind of kept pushing buttons until it worked. Still, once we got the connection going and we were able to login to […]
Lately we’ve been making a lot of trips to the city’s dump sites. It’s not by desire by any means. Instead, by obligation. Por obligación… y más o menos a la fuerza también, I would say. But the thing is we’ve had a lot of junk to trash, and well, […]
It’s probably human nature that anytime we’re not too sure about our own parenting, we tend to think back on our own childhoods. How did my parents react to that? What would they have done? How would they have handled it? For me, it’s a pretty regular occurrence. Even cuando no […]
I guess I should consider myself pretty fortunate. Anjelica and I share almost exactly the same heritage. We were both born here in this country to Mexican parents – from the same estado de San Luis Potosi at that! We’re both Mexican Americans. We both speak English and Spanish very […]