4 Easy and Natural Raspados With Honey {Recipe}
La miel or honey is one of my favorite ingredients from La Madre Tierra. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t pour honey over something like a smoothie, a slice of toast or suck it straight from a stick. These recipes for natural raspados (also known as minutas, piraguas, snow cones or shaved ice) from the National Honey Board along with Sno-Con Amor founder and raspado expert Lauda Flores, are made with honey and had me drooling so much I just had toRead More ...
Pen Pals: A Great Idea for Bilingual Kids
A few months ago I was texting back and forth with my good friend Melanie of ModernMami and she came up with the excellent idea of getting our girls to become pen pals. Although they’ve only met each other once when we visited Disney last year, we figured it’d be a good way for them to keep in touch and practice their Spanish at the same time. Plus, I have such fond memories of my own pen pals growing up (IRead More ...
Week in Links for #BilingualKids — July 14
Not a lot going on this week, but here are a few interesting links you might have missed! The July Carnival is Here! from Non-Native Bilingualism — I love the monthly blogging carnival on bilingualism because it introduces to so many other parents who, like us, are doing everything they can to raise bilingual (or multilingual) children. The best part is that these are families all over the world and even though the language pairs they use are different than ours,Read More ...
Looking for Amazing Moms for the MamásLatinas Awards!
As some of you already know, I’ve been working as a staff writer at MamásLatinas since the beginning of February. One of the things I love the most about my job — besides being able to put my bilingual skills to the test every single day as I write in both English and Spanish — is that one of our missions is to empower and celebrate Latina moms everywhere. And one way of doing that is by giving them theRead More ...
Ice Age´s Sid Goes Global With The Shuffle in Spanish
Now, how cute is this? Sid, the adorably clumsy sloth of Ice Age fame, has released a music video where we see him do the Shuffle — or el Desplazamiento Continental in Spanish – with images of kids dancing all over the world! Are you ready to get your niños shuffling en español? Just press play! Ice Age: Continental Drift hits theaters on July 13 and stars Ray Romano, John Leguziamo,Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah and more. ...
Quick and Yummy Snack To Love: Dipped Strawberries
Parents can all relate to the picky-eaters stages we confront with our kids. One day they love this, the next day they can´t stand the sight of it. You stock up on a particular snack just to see it come back untouched in the lunchbox. You keep trying and getting creative but nothing seems to stick. At least that´s how it rolls in my house with my girl. However, there´s a few fruits we can pretty much always count onRead More ...
