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Parenting

Are Your Kids Enrolled in Extra-Curricular Activities?

Growing up, I never participated in extra-curricular activities such as dance class, little league sports, or anything of the sort. While my friends were off learning ballet, tap, and jazz, I was at home. Doing homework. Or maybe chores. It’s not something I ever got to experience as a child.
I try hard not to live [...]

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Barbie Dolls and Columbus Day. What’s the Connection?

Parenting

It’s funny how the world sometimes reaches out to you. I’m not normally one to go around “looking for signs,” but sometimes you just can’t miss them.
Two months ago, I wrote about how brown dolls are not enough and we need more multicultural dolls.
This weekend, I came across an article titled Mattel introduces black Barbies. [...]

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You Can Only Say Hurry So Many Ways

Parenting

I hate that nowadays the hot phrase in our house is “You’re wasting time baby girl.” For one reason or another it’s always, “Eat faster,” or “Don’t take too long,” or “You have 5 minutes.” We’re often talking about time somehow or another.
But, it’s necessary. Life dictates it to be so.
I HAVE to be at [...]

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Why Hannah Montana Doesn’t Belong in My House

Parenting

My daughter is 3. THREE!!! She does not need to know about Hannah Montana.
So, why does everyone and their mom think that it’s prime time my daughter be introduced to her?
Is this not a TV show for tween/teenage girls? I’ve seen it a couple of times and it’s definitely geared for girls 10 and up [...]

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Brown is Not Enough

Parenting

I’ve been thinking about something for the past few weeks that has just been eating me up inside. And after attending BlogHer 09 and sitting in on the Women of Color session PLUS having lunch with a group of lovely women of color, it’s been on my mind even more.
Why is it so hard to [...]

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Words Will Never Hurt Me…

Parenting

There is this thing in the Latino culture where your parents, or other relatives, will often say “terms of endearment” that if were said in the English language would be down-right insulting and offensive.
Examples:

Spanish term/phrase

English Translation

Esta gordita!
She’s fat!

Negrita
Dark-skinned girl

SpanglishBaby just posted this past week about this issue. It was part of their Ask an Expert [...]

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Talking to your Kids

Parenting

A few of my co-workers are former teachers. Specifically, they were elementary school teachers, so I often seek their advice on how to teach my daughter certain things and be sure I’ve got her on the right track for when she starts pre-K or school.
One of them said something to me that has stuck with [...]

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5 Reading Resources for Parents

Parenting

My daughter is three. As a preschooler, she loves to “read” and loves for us to read to her. She received a Leapfrog Tag system from her tio for Christmas and uses it on an almost daily basis. That is how she can “read” a book to us.
But, she can also take a regular book [...]