Latina Moms | Daughters
So you’ve caught your kid lying to you. Obviously, this pisses you off. How dare they! You’re their mother, for Crissakes. They owe you. Most mamis I asked said without hesitation that if you catch your kid lying, you lay down the law and teach them that it’s bad to lie. Period. No ifs, ands [...]
For many years, I was angry. I was so angry that it became one of the defining traits of my character, as my master’s advisor noted in the recommendation letter he wrote for me, describing me as “a pugilist with a mind that gives off sparks like steel on flint.” People often mistook my anger [...]
Los Angeles native and screenwriter Nicole Gonzalez McIntosh was eight years old when her mother first threw her out of the house to live on her own. Janette Rosario-Brol of Illinois recently took out a protective order against her mother—a woman who, among other things, once told her young daughter she wished she’d spent her [...]
There were two things I really wanted when I was 14 and about to enter high school. One was to go to a certain elite private prep school in my hometown. The other was to be a cheerleader. I applied to the prep school, and was rejected. Then I tried out for the freshman cheer squad [...]
Not too long ago, I had what I considered to be a legitimate problem to discuss with my boyfriend. Sure, it wasn’t actually anything that had happened. Yet. It was something I’d been thinking about that might happen, if certain other things happened, all of those things being caused by something else hypothetical that might [...]
Let’s get right to the point. Cuban-born actor and model William Levy is hot. And, no, I don’t mean hot in any of the clichéd Mexican-food-reference ways that far too many mentally lazy mainstream journalists are employing about him at the moment, as they so often seem to do for any Latino celebrity in [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve found it hard to lose weight even when you’re exercising regularly and are eating healthful foods. Because weight gain and loss are really a matter of simple mathematics (calories in versus calories out) it doesn’t take a genius to realize that difficulty losing weight is due to too many [...]
Like most moms, I have tried to teach my son to play by the rules in life. This includes team sports, which I must confess to having known very little about until I found myself raising a bundle of budding testosterone who loves basketball and football. I’ve gotten books on the sports, and sat down [...]
Dear Demi, I don’t know you. So I ask you to forgive my false familiarity. We have New Mexico in common, and I know of people who knew you growing up in Roswell. From what I’ve heard, you had a rough start in this world. So I guess I we have that in common, too. [...]
It’s funny how things are all connected, when you really sit down to look at them. Well, not funny in a comedic sense, but funny as in interesting. For years, I have had trouble controlling my impulses. Many people who knew me understood this. I, unfortunately, did not. I never realized I had a problem until [...]
