We love celebrating Latino and bicultural families every single day, so we’re thrilled to partner with Johnson & Johnson and Univision in their quest to find “La Familia de Hoy” — a modern, authentic and active family that represents a los hispanos and shares our passions.

The three familias that are in the voting stage to become “La Familia de Hoy” and spokes family for Johnson & Johnson in 2014 are:

Los Olivera

Los Jiménez

Los López

To learn more about these bellas familias and to cast your own vote, head on over now to Univision.com and just select one. It will literally take you seconds because you don’t need to register your email or any other steps. Once you vote, you also receive a selection of coupons for discounts on Johnson & Johnson Healthy Essentials products. Go here to vote now. The winning family will be revealed Dec. 21 on Sábado Gigante.

Bilingual Twitter Party!

We’ve joined a fabulous group of Latina bloggers and Latina Bloggers Connect (disclosure: I own this company) to celebrate “La Familia de Hoy” with a bilingual Twitter party and we really hope you can join us! If you’ve never attended a Twitter party, this is a perfect chance to dive into one!

Date: Thursday, December 5th

Time: 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET

Where: On Twitter with the hashtag #LaFamiliaDeHoy. You can use this link  for easy access starting now: http://twubs.com/LaFamiliadeHoy

Co-Hosts:

@eileenccampos  @elianatardio @mcontemporanea @sassymamainla

@smashbravoteam  @spanglishbaby

Moderators: @lbconnect @laflowers (me!!)

Sponsor: Johnson & Johnson

Prizes:

100 gift card for FIVE winners!

To be eligible to win, you must join the party and participate during the hour with an original tweet (RT’s not eligible) using the #LaFamiliaDeHoy hashtag. Five winners will be selected at random from all eligible tweets and announced throughout the hour. For full Terms and Conditions click here.

Pre-Party Prizes! RSVP and help us spread the word and WIN!

We want this fiesta to start right now, so we have a $25 gift card for four winners. To enter the #LaFamiliadeHoy pre-party giveaway all you have to do is RSVP with your Twitter handle via the Rafflecopter widget below and send out a tweet inviting your friends to join us.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Curling up with our bilingual niños and a good book can be one of the best daily routines we could have. It allows us to interact with our kids in an educational and fun way. Even better if we’re reading to them en español!

To celebrate the joy of reading and raising bilingual kids, we’ve joined forces with Mamiverse and their new channel Mamiverse Books to host an interactive Twitter party with great prizes!

The main goal of this Twitter party will be to share the benefits of raising bilingual children and tips on how to do it, and, of course, provide prizes of great books (including our Bilingual is Better!) for those attending. We encourage all of  you to join us on  Tuesday, October 16th at 9-10pm EST using the hashtag #MamiverseReads. And in case you are curious about the prizes, check them out bellow!

There will be  five winners who will each take one gift pack with 10 Books and 5 CD’s plus a copy of Bilingual is Better for a combined retail value of $155.65. Check out the tittles of the books below (links included):

• Tia Isa Quiere Un Carro
• My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood
• Ladder to the Moon
• Starfields
• The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind 
• Pedro and Margarita 5-pack
• Bilingual is Better

About Our Partners

Heritage Language is a publisher of bilingual children’s books. They also have an on line store where you can find the 5 Pedro and Margarita books, as well as handpicked books by other publishers and products for people who love Spanish.

Candlewick Press is a producer of children’s books who is committed to making the world a better place, not just through the books they publish but by their green initiatives and commitment to improving their local community.

The 51 million Latinos who live in the United States, (and those of us who have married into the familia!) know what a colorful, exciting, and beautiful culture it is. Hispanic Heritage Month which runs from September 15th through October 15th each year, allows us to share all the specialness of nuestra cultura with everyone, and gives us a chance to recognize the achievements of American Latinos.

Amway, one of the largest direct selling companies in the world, is joining in this celebration. It has partnered with broadcast networks Discovery en Español and Discovery Familia to create a campaign – “Momentos de Calidad” (“Quality Moments”) – to encourage Latinos to share those special moments of growing up in Latin America.

Want to join the fun? … There’s a Twitter party for that!

Mark your calendar: The party is this Wednesday, September 26th, 9:00PM EST – 10:30PM EST / 6:00PM PST – 8:30PM PST

The party is moderated by @LBConnect and @laflowers along with your hosts, @mamalatina @ohmariana @spanglishbaby @sweetlifebake and @sassymamainla.

What’s a Twitter party without prizes?

• 100 participants will receive 15 free music downloads

• 50 participants will be selected at random to receive travel kits with Nutrilite supplements and Artistry skincare products worth $165 each!

• 1 grand prize winner will receive an iCook 22-piece cookware set worth over $1k

So make sure you RSVP,  mark your calendar and join the party for your chance to chat together, have fun and win some awesome prizes!

Wednesday, September 26th, 9:00PM EST – 10:30PM EST / 6:00PM PST – 8:30PM PST over on Twitter. Hashtag: #QualityMoments – See you there!

RSVP on Facebook

We´re fast approaching another year of  El Día de los Niños (Day of the Child) festivities and we´re excited to be celebrating a lo grande  the next couple of weeks with a Twitter party, special posts and even a Celebrating Bilingual Readers grand giveaway.

Each year the United States Congress names April 30^th as El Dia de los Niños to support the intellectual and emotional development of young people.  Over one hundred cities across the nation will be celebrating this day with parades, book festivals, and other entertainment; we couldn´t be left behind!

WGBH Boston’s Emmy Award winning preschool science series Peep and the Big Wide World has been selected as the special featured guest at this year’s El Dia de los Niños celebrations held around the country. You might already be familiar with WGBH Boston’s Peep and the Big Wide World, a science and math series for our preschool age niños that can be seen in Spanish on Vme . We’re are happy to announce that we’ve partnered with WGBH Boston to celebrate Día de los Niños with Peep and the National Latino Children´s Institute. Peep and the Big Wide World gives Latino families the resources we need to encourage science and math learning in our kids through educational episodes and online resources available in Spanish.

In the next few days we´ll be publishing a series of posts featuring arts, crafts and activities inspired by PEEP and the Big Wide World that you can do with your child and celebrate their natural curiosity for the world around them, as well as nurture their bilingual dreams.

PEEP has really expanded its bilingual episodes and activities, and they will be launching a new website with more of those activities soon. Check out the current site with tons of videos and activities in Spanish!

We´ll also be hosting a fun Twitter party this Tuesday, April 24th at 1pm EST/10am PST. To join the twitter party all you have to do is follow the hashtag #PEEPDia (it´s super easy if you go to this Tweetchat link) and jump right in to the conversation we´ll be leading with six other fabulous co-hosts. At the end of the party we´ll be giving away three sets of prize packs, each with a $50 gift card and a PEEP series DVD with the Spanish-language option included. To RSVP for the Twitter party, get a reminder before it starts and check out the co-hosts to follow, go to this link here.

To find the cities that will be celebrating El Dia de los Niños you can click here.

¡A celebrar se ha dicho!

PEEP and the Big Wide World airs in Spanish on Vme, Monday thorough Saturday from 9:15-9:30am.

For more fun Día de los Niños articles, giveaways and activities, check out these posts:

Celebrating Bilingual Readers Contest–over $500 in prizes, including books and a Kindle Fire!

Día de los Niños Parachute–your kids will have a blast making this parachute, inspired by PEEP!

PEEP Science Videos and Activities in Spanish–useful tips from a bilingual teacher and Spanish Playground blogger on how to use the Spanish-language videos and activities on the PEEP website with your kids.

Fun and Easy Activities to Introduce Basic Science Vocabulary in Spanish–a collection of fun games in Spanish from Spanish Playground.

Disclosure: We’ve partnered with WGBH Boston and are receiving compensation for a series of posts and a Día de los Niños twitter party.