Day of the Dead in Puerto Rico: All Saints Day and All Souls’ Day
2015-10-08
Have you wondered if Day of the Dead in Puerto Rico is a thing? Not really. We have All Saints Day and All Souls’ Day. The Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is celebrated primarily on November 1st and 2nd. All Saints’ Day, also known as AllRead More →
Puerto Rican Sopa de Plátano (Plantain Soup) Recipe
2015-09-29
Raising a multicultural child to love and know his culture and heritage is no easy task especially when we live away from extended familia for instance in this case from Puerto Rico. He’s a true Southern boy, and one way to teach our child to love his Latino heritageRead More →
Hispanic Heritage Month: Ideas for the Classroom & Community
2015-09-23
Hispanic Heritage Month is the perfect time for us as a familia to share our Hispanic heritage with little one’s friends at school, and with our community. About Hispanic Heritage Month Although Latinos are the second-largest, and fastest-growing minority group in the United States in our small Southern community weRead More →
Cultivating our Child’s Heritage Language through Long-Distance Relationships with our Familia
2015-08-26
When I moved to the USA, one of the things that my mother and I agreed upon was that we would always visit each other. One year she’d visit, and the following year I’d visit Puerto Rico. Well the I, turned into an us. Married and with a child, nowRead More →
Birthday Celebrations from Around the World
2015-07-01
July is little one’s birthday month! I can’t believe he’ll be turning 7 yrs. old! To celebrate such a milestone, I want to take him, and my readers on a virtual trip to look at birthday celebrations from around the world. We’ll take a look at how moms like youRead More →