Latina Moms | Daughters
You open the door and there it is—your teenager’s bedroom. No matter how responsible, well-behaved and great your teen might be, you’ve probably happened upon this scene before: piles of laundry cover the carpet, the bed is unmade, dirty dishes are stacked on the bedside table, the desk surface is not visible beneath books and [...]
It was Valentine’s Day and I had just picked up my 11-year-old from an extracurricular activity. I asked how his day had been, and specifically, how his Valentine’s Day had gone, and he proceeded to tell me the following: A classmate (a girl we’ll call Morgan for the sake of anonymity) gave her crush (a [...]
It’s the worst nightmare of a parent trying to raise a bilingual child. “I hate Spanish class and I have all my foreign language credits now—I don’t want to take it next year. Are you going to make me?” Those were the words of my 14 year old son, a well-behaved, straight-A student who is [...]
The rainy days of spring will soon be upon us, and that means afternoons spent with the kids cooped up indoors, right? Wrong! Perhaps you have a list of indoor rainy day activities but let’s expand our idea of what a rainy day means when it comes to our plans for the day. Put the [...]
March 8 is International Women’s Day—a globally observed day of recognition of the history, contributions and plight of women around the world. The entire month of March is “Women’s History Month” in the United States, as declared by President Barack Obama. So what does it mean and how can we use these events to educate [...]
My best friend of almost 10 years, “Anna,” sends me a text from the hospital—she’s in labor, she says, and she’ll keep me updated as much as possible. Anna keeps her promise and texts me every few hours. Between contractions she tells me how tired she is, how hungry she is, how much she misses [...]
When a book is damaged, it can break a book lover’s heart. Broken spines, torn pages, rippling (a tell-tale sign of water damage), the scribbles of an unattended child or corners so dog-eared that they’ve fallen off—all these things may mean a book has not been well cared for. Whether it’s a well-loved book or [...]
Roses are red, violets are blue, would your valentine like a poem from you? This Valentine’s Day, there’s no shortage of amazing gifts you could give to show your love, but here’s an idea which has been around for centuries and has never gone out of style: the almighty love poem! From Pablo Neruda, William [...]
It’s cold outside in most of the country and it’s the perfect time of year to cozy up with a good book. Here are five recent works of fiction by Latin American or Latino American authors to keep you company by the fireside. 1. We the Animals by Justin Torres A Puerto Rican father, a [...]
Today’s world has us on the Internet at work, on the Internet for leisure, on the Internet at home, and on the Internet even when we’re on the go. Surely that can’t all be time spent productively, plus, what does all that time spent connected do for our human connections? Yes, we’re in touch with [...]
