Follow Friday Back-to-School Blogger Roundup
Who did you #FF today? It’s always a tough call, because there are so many wonderful and interesting Tweeps out there. We do appreciate those who follow us, tweet and retweet and comment on our new ventures. So today is the last vacation Friday for a lot of us. School starts on August 20 in [...]
7 Science Apps for Your Kids
Looking to sharpen your kid’s science skills? Try out apps that teach everything from handy anatomy to useful geography. Below are seven of my family’s favorite educational apps for iPad. But most of them are also available for iPhone. Happy learning! GEOGRAPHY 1. Stack the States (FREE-.99¢) for ages 6 and up Learning about the [...]
7 Rules for Effective Family Bonding
When was the last time you just sat and talked with your child or your spouse? In today’s busy world, more and more families are throwing away valuable opportunities for spending quality time together. Without a commitment to carving spaces for bonding moments, families can slowly grow apart. How can a family prevent this from [...]
10 Back-to-School Must Haves
Already have that back-to-school shopping list ready? Before you head out, take a moment to look at our top 10 school essentials and compare. For extra savings, be sure to take advantage of the tax-free shopping weekends in your state. 1. Backpack ($34.95-$84.95) This year, take the time to invest in a sturdy backpack for [...]
7 Easy Tips for Teaching Your Child Spanish
Perhaps you’re fluent in Spanish or know the basics, but your kids are not picking up the language as quickly as you’d hoped. You may think it’s because you live in the United States or that you don’t have enough time to teach them. Whatever the reason, don’t get discouraged just yet. Here are seven [...]
Controversial Nuns with an Agenda (to Help)
Nuns are often stereotyped into two categories: the pious virgin praying for mercy at the altar or a ruler-wielding tyrant with vinegar breath and a frightful dark habit. In truth, today’s nuns are some of the most progressive, hardest working and bravest souls within the Catholic Church. Many dress in layman’s clothes, shop at Target, [...]
How to Support the High Schooler in Your Life
With the start of school around the corner, mamis are making all sorts of to-do lists in their heads: school supplies, bus routes, and extra-curricular activities. And while all those things matter, the most important thing to take into account is that we as parents need to be good role models for the high-schooler in [...]
What’s Happening to Our Sons? A Crisis in Education
The fact that U.S. Latinas are more educated than ever is a cause for celebration. What’s troubling is that while more Latinas have college degrees, and are thus earning higher salaries, Latino males are falling behind in this equation. While we’ve read optimistic reports about the higher numbers of Hispanics attending four-year institutions, it’s the [...]
Dreaming in Spanish
The words tumbled out fast, no halting. No searching my brain for the right word. No Spanglish. Just rapido, rapido, pan, pan, pan, palabras, palabras, palabras. In my dream I was in full-on Spanish conversation with a Colombian co-worker. It was vivid. Yet now, a few weeks later I cannot recall what I was saying to [...]
How Failure Makes Us Stronger
I’ll never forget the crushing loss my son’s basketball team suffered last year, at the hands of a school that seemed to be made up of gigantic, mutant, bearded sixth graders. The other guys, clearly jacked up on nuclear waste and steroids, motored up and down the court like monstrous machines, and scored almost into [...]
