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Learn Spanish With Little Pim! Win a Set of Spanish Flash Cards & CD!

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Disclosure: I received Little Pim products for review purposes. No other compensation received.
By now you know that my husband and I have committed to raising bilingual children. Coming from different cultures ourselves, our daughter has the benefit of growing up multicultural and learning two languages – English and Spanish. Though my first language was [...]

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Latinas in Social Media and Multiculturalism – Plus a New ModernMami Blog!

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Happy Friday! I hope you have had a productive and fun week. For me, it’s been a good mix of the two, which is great because that’s how I define balance.
I’ve been busy working on a couple of Blogher 2010 Room of Your Own sessions as well as a new blog. So, today, I want [...]

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Learning Spanish with Bilingual Toys – Contest & Review

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Most of you already know that we are a bi-cultural family and I myself am bilingual. As such, my husband and I decided that we would make an effort to raise our children bilingually so they could learn both English and Spanish. So far, our daughter is doing a great job of acquiring both languages [...]

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

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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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What Does Being Latina Mean to Me?

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****This post was originally posted in March 2009 at Family Eden. Since that blog is no longer active, I wanted to share with you.****
I’ve been asked a difficult question.
I was asked to write about what it means to me to be a Latina.
To be honest, I’ve never really given it much thought.
I mean, do people [...]

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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…

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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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