It’s definitely not a topic we’ve ever shied away from, but it is one we’ve given a lot of thought to. Especially as parents of a bilingualish teenager. See what I did there? It’s a play off of the hit TV show Blackish, in case you’re wondering. What I’m talking […]
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The importance of imparting our own stories to the next generation – #TXLatinoBlog Hop
My parents made the choice to raise us here. Here in a country that was not their own. In a place where for many years they were forced to live their lives hiding in plain sight. In the land of opportunity. The land where nothing seemed impossible if you were […]
¡Chinelas con estos huercos!
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 […]
Bilingual Living: Why Language and Culture Matter when Parenting
It’s no secret that I’m not the most structured when it comes to teaching bilingualism. We’ve talked about it before, in past blog posts. It’s not that fluency in English and Spanish for Edgar is not important to me. It is. For more reasons than I can explain, pero desde […]
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 off the truck was “guess who I picked for my social studies project?” I was […]
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 in slang form and very loosely used; or b) kind of confused and probably insulted […]
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 their weekly publication. Why? Why now? You might ask. Because, as the press materials that […]
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 crazy, but it’s true. It happened to me just the other day. A local university […]