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We may be used to bilingual versions of books and movies, but most of us don’t think about products for managing our time bilingually. The moms at Dotmine Day Planners did, and they created this amazing Tiempo Mio day planner to help you do just that. With the months and days in both Spanish and English and a cute cover design, the “El Partido” planner is at once beautiful and useful. The most unique thing about all Dotmine planners isRead More ...

From the creators of ¡A la granja! and some of our other favorite apps, When I Grow Up/De mayor seré is a great resource in addition to being a fun app. It introduces children to all the career choices they will have as adults, and makes all of them seem equally fun with its cute graphics. Sanoen, a Barcelona-based digital publisher, gives us six languages and five modes to choose from. Your youngest children can watch the automated version ofRead More ...

Apps are great, but have you ever wished you could expand them and give your kids even more hours of educational fun? Little Pim, creator of many excellent apps and language teaching resources, offers digital downloads to fill in that gap. These short films are perfect for preschoolers, and native Spanish speakers will enjoy them just as much as beginners. Each video combines real-life footage of children and their parents with animated scenes of Little Pim. While she narrates, theRead More ...

Do I really need to go around announcing to the world around me that in my own little world “Se Habla Spanglish?” Heck yes! Why? Because I’m proud of my Spanglish – the one where you speak both languages fluently and can switch effortlessly between one and the other – and that means I will happily announce it by wearing the cute T-shirt Cynthia, of Dos Borreguitas sent me. The aqua of the background and the two-tone pink of theRead More ...

I didn’t watch the original Santa Paws movie, but after watching Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups, all I can say is, puppies.  Puppies that were so insanely cute that to me, the plot was almost irrelevant.  I watched the movie with my sons and it put us right in that (Disney assisted) Christmas mood.  (Spoiler alert: the puppies save Christmas!) My boys’ favorite part?  They couldn’t stop laughing while watching the dogs bust Mrs. Claus out of jail (theRead More ...

On Sunday I took my daughter to the movies and was surprised to see a huge movie poster for the documentary “Hecho en México” with a picture of musician Carla Morrison on one side and of the band Kinky on the other – two Mexican artists I listen to all the time. I immediately went online to find out what this was all about and found this trailer: Now, I can not wait for November 31st to come around becauseRead More ...

Un dragón, un par de zapatos rojos, una manzana.  We pulled these words from our story jar the other day and I ended up telling the story del dragón al que le encantaba el color rojo over and over. Not every story is the hit that el dragón was, but a story jar adds a bit of randomness and fun to storytelling. It is a jar with words on small pieces of paper, folded so you cannot see the word.Read More ...

One of my biggest tasks is to keep the kids entertained while the family is busy cooking and preparing everything during the holidays. Lately the trend has been these amazing glittered body art designs. I like to think of them as the modern face paintings. Not only are these fun and festive but the designs are endless. While my son was excited about getting fall leaves, my daughter requested a rainbow turkey. Since we didn’t use body glue (which lastsRead More ...