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Raising a Bilingual Kid: Getting Your Kids to Buy Into español

He tries.  He really does.  We all do.  It’s become an entire family effort to maintain Edgar’s bilingual skills.  Even more so to ensure he is fluent in Spanish.  Inevitably,    as much as we try to...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: ‘One Doesn’t Last Forever’

My mother used to say uno no va durar para siempre all the time when we were kids.  It was one of those signature lines that we all knew by heart and all rolled our eyes at every time it slipped out of...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: Teaching the Value of a Dollar

El dinero cuesta.  Hay que ganarse la vida.  If money didn’t grow on trees, it certainly didn’t grow on anything else near our home at least.  No matter how hard my parents worked we never seemed to...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: Easy, Breezy – Fact or Fiction?

My parents never pressured us to be bilingual.  We had to be… because our worlds took place in English and Spanish.  At home mamá y papá would not understand us if we used our English.  In school, even...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: Television En Español

Just the other day we were sitting at my parents house watching Sal y Pimienta.  If you’re not familiar, it’s one of those wickedly addicting and hilarious celebrity gossip shows that Univision airs...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: “Can You Súbele Un Poquito Please?”

Every time we get in the car it’s almost always guaranteed that Edgar will utter this phrase: Can you súbele un poquito please?  He’s been doing so for as long as I can remember, and until just this...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: It’s the Little Things That Count

It’s the little thngs that make the difference… muchas veces. This was an actual conversation between Edgar and I.  We had just finished raiding all of the clearance racks at Target – we always do; we...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: The Importance of Doing ‘Nada’

We used to get up early in the mornings and do nothing.  That was the excitement of our summer vacations.  That we didn’t have to get up groggy, angry and tired to do anything at all.  There was no...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: It’s Hard for Parents Too!

Bicultural Parents – Ricky and Lucy Ricardo. 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...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid: 7 Essential Lessons For Any Parent

Parenting. 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...

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Raising a Bilingual Kid… While Dumpster Diving

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...

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How Do You Make Your Child Understand What It Means To Be Undocumented?

A scene from ‘Bajo la Misma Luna’ 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...

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What’s The Secret To Raising a Bilingual Kid? …Hiring a Bilingual Nanny!

Is bilingualism in the US more acceptable these days? 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?...

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

One of my favorite reads. 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...

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

Familia! 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...

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