There are certain moments in life when one has to learn to shut up. For the last several months I’ve been doing a lot of silent thinking and holding the pause button on my public expressions of emotions for one very complicated and difficult reason. My father is battling cancer […]
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The truth about Raising a Bilingual Kid
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 […]
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 […]
The 25 Greatest Things I’ve Learned About Being a Dad, in My Short Experience
For Father’s Day this year I want to celebrate my own father, and father’s everywhere for that matter, by sharing a couple of the things that I have learned along the way in this journey we call parenting. ¡Feliz Día de los Padres! 25. Parenting is hard work. It is. […]
Sorry, Kiddo. We Are Not That Cool!
In every parent’s life, there comes that moment when despite all of our best efforts we have to come to terms with facing the reality… well, of our reality. It’s not a pleasant experience and very rarely do we get to choose when it happens. Most of the time it’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 took me all of five minutes to get him to stop laughing en carcajadas so we […]