Latina Moms | Daughters
Do you love reading? Do you wish you could be part of a book club where you could get together with other book lovers and talk character and plot lines? Don’t wait for an invitation. Start your own book club. It’s easier than you think! That’s exactly what two friends and I did more than [...]
One challenge adoptive families face is navigating the questions that well-meaning people ask. Here, we share five questions you should never ask of someone who is adopted or of a family who has grown through adoption. 1. IS HE YOURS? While you might never know some families grew through adoption, other adoptive families are more [...]
It’s a common complaint among older women: People don’t look AT me anymore; they look THROUGH me. When an older friend recently revealed that she struggled with feeling invisible, I knew she wasn’t alone. But feeling invisible isn’t always just caused by other people’s perceptions of us. It can also be impacted by our own [...]
When my husband and I decided to start a family, we knew we would adopt. But with so many possibilities and so much information out there, we were overwhelmed and didn’t know where to begin. Ultimately, we decided to start with the people who knew best: the adoptive families in our lives. As we get [...]
The average young person in America spends most of his or her free time—more than 10 hours a day—engaged with media. And if that were not daunting enough, the number goes up to 13 hours of media a day for Latino kids. Yet, research shows it takes just 30 minutes of television programming (and the [...]
As an educator, I know that one of the best ways to help your children be successful is to empower them to become avid readers. Children who read a lot often experience greater academic success, can better articulate what they feel, have greater compassion, develop a broader sense of the world, and exhibit heightened creativity. [...]
Some things about being a teenager never change: heartbreak over a first love, learning to drive, searching for a college. But today’s teens face new challenges we never had to deal with. So what does the parent of a millennial need to do to keep their teen safe? Here, we share 5 threats your teen [...]
If I could just change this one thing, I would be so much happier. Have you ever had that thought? While plastic surgery is on the rise, especially among Latinas (more than 1.4 million Latinos in the US underwent cosmetic procedures in 2009, more than triple the number than in 2000); research reveals that while [...]
When I lead [self-acceptance] workshops, I often give participants a series of prompts that I call Three Small Questions. The catch is that they aren’t small questions at all. They are often big questions but what I want from them is short, simple, one sentence, direct answers. I ask the questions, and my students have about [...]
Some say college is wasted on the young. So many of us look back at our own college years and realize what we could have done differently to make the most of them. While we can’t go back, we certainly can offer our sons and daughters our best advice to help them make the right [...]
