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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhat’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?...
View ArticleRaising 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...
View ArticleRaising 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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