“But you’ve done it before. It’s going to be super easy for you.” A first-time mom said this to me recently at an event when we started discussing potty training. I almost laughed in her face. As any parent of multiple children knows, each child is different and the chances are that what works to… [Read More]
Raising Tweens
The Little Known Yet Fatal Disease – Understanding Kawasaki Syndrome
Mother’s Day, 2009 – My husband is in Maryland visiting his very ill grandmother. My toddler is with my mother. Our plans for brunch were canceled. I’m in the emergency room of the local children’s hospital with my tween Maddy. The pediatrician had called an hour earlier to follow up on our visit to her… [Read More]
Abuelos' Summer Camp
Here’s the scene.. The camp director marched out to the playground yelling my name. Huffing and mumbling under her breath, she grabbed me by the arm and dragged me inside the lunch room. Lunch had long been over and all of the tables were empty. Except, there was one person still there staring at the… [Read More]
Tween Book Recommendations
Our amigas over at Mamiverse have a great list of book recommendations for the entire family including an ENTIRE section for tweens and bilingual books! Here are just a few of our favorite Mamiverse book reviews for tweens: How Tía Lola Ended Up Starting Over By Julia Alvarez Random House • 2011 • 145 pages… [Read More]
Parents are KEY to Encouraging STEM Careers
An interview with Ford Motor Company’s Liz Elser On a recent trip to Kennedy Space Center (full post coming soon), Cristy overheard a tween girl asking her father to “Plllllllllleeeeeeaaasssseeee” buy her an astronaut uniform. His response, “Those are for boys!”. This scene is exactly why Los Tweens began the Celebrate Education/Educacion #CelebrateEDU series. … [Read More]
Sharing Passover to Open Tween Minds
Our Los Tweens team was invited by our amiga Jeannette Kaplun of Hispana Global to join her for an annual Passover celebration presented by the Latin American committee of the Miami AJC. It is a beautiful celebration of liberty and so many traditions that help retrace the history of freedom from slavery of the… [Read More]
Potty Training Tips for the Less-than-Enthusiastic Moms
Yes, I am one of the Pull Ups “Madrinas del Baño”. Yes, I’ve potty trained my two eldest children and the third one is now starting on the journey. But, I HATE potty training. It is one of my least favorite parenting milestones. I get bored by the routine. I have very little patience. And,… [Read More]
Calling All Tween & Teen Inventors & Innovators
Do you have an aspiring tween or teen inventor in your home? Want to encourage a career in science, technology, engineering or math? In preparation for the release of Iron Man 3, Disney, Discovery Science Center, Broadcom Foundation, Marvel Studios, Visa Signature and the famous El Capital Theatre in Hollywood have teamed up to sponsor a… [Read More]
Why Parents Should Let Siblings Argue
by Veronique De Miguel for Mamiverse Sibling relationships can turn from love to hate and back several times a day. You can hear them playing happily in the backyard one moment, and the next thing you know they hate each others’ guts! It’s a normal occurrence of childhood. We parents try to mediate and help them… [Read More]
From Toddlers to Tweens: Potty Training
When I was chosen to be one of Pull-Ups Madrinas del Baño, the irony of the situation wasn’t lost on me. I’ve been potty training for ten years. Si, diez años! Yes, ten years! Potty training doesn’t stop after that first tinkle. Actually, it’s just starting! I believe there are three levels of potty training:… [Read More]
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