About: Ana Flores

I’m in love. How can I not be? Just look at those eyes. ...

I am serious when I say summer is my favorite time of year. I might be slightly biased because , growing up in El Salvador, summer is really all I know.  As soon as the weather starts warming up and days get longer, I start daydreaming about the beach, the pool, the barbecues, sitting outside at my favorite café and all the outdoors has to offer.  But, now that I´m, errrr, older I have to adopt certain summer rituals toRead More ...

We’re celebrating dads this whole week at SpanglishBaby in preparation for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 19th. We’ve asked several papás/bloggers/journalists, who happen to be raising their children bilingual, to share their experiences with us. If you’ve been a regular reader of SpanglishBaby, you probably know that we’ve always wished we had more of the male presence in our blog. We appreciate it when we hear the perspective of fathers who are raising bilingual and bicultural kids because, in manyRead More ...

Today we start a much-deserved, week-long celebration of SpanglishBaby Dads y Papás.  We celebrate our dads, our abuelos, our husbands, the tíos, basically any and every man that has played that all-important Father role in our lives. Joining our celebration and helping us shower Dads with appreciation with a very cool giveaway are Hanes and Boost Mobile. One SpanglishBaby reader will get to make one man in her life comfortable with the following clothing classics and essentials, courtesy of Hanes:Read More ...

I went to a British school back in Peru where I was taught the majority of my courses in English. The school has been around for a very long time (1938) and even my mother and her sisters went there when they were little. It has a great reputation and it’s undoubtedly responsible for my being bilingual since it was there where I learned English in a formal setting. When I attended the school in the 1980s, there used toRead More ...

Ya había tardado. Es más, unas horas antes de que comenzara con la cantaleta, yo justo había estado pensando que se me hacía raro que mi hijo menor ya va a cumplir 2 años y mi mamá no me ha dicho mucho acerca de quitarle el pañal. Y, ¡bam! Entro por la puerta después del trabajo y mi mamá me pregunta que cuándo le voy a quitar el pañal. ¡Qué coincidencia! Mi madre es lo máximo y no hay nadaRead More ...