How amazing would it be if the next Steve Wozniak was a Latina? Through our partnership with Ford Motor Company and the development of the Celebrate Education (#CelebrateEDU) series, our Los Tweens team is working to inspire multicultural parents of girls to help their daughters prepare for careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)-related fields…. [Read More]
Parenting Tips
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]
Gift Ideas for Tween Easter Baskets
As children go through the tween years – between the ages of 7 and 12 – the Easter bunny’s job gets harder and harder. Pre-packaged baskets just don’t cut it any more. They aren’t unique in any way and that’s PRECISELY what a tween is looking for in just about anything. Everything needs to ‘scream’… [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]
Benefits of Raising Bilingual Children
by Elizabeth Heath for Mamiverse.com In our day and age, raising a child to be bilingual is seen as a positive step, as it will help him communicate with more people and be more desirable in the job market. But increasingly, research is showing that bilingual kids are cognitively more advanced than their monolingual peers. In… [Read More]
A Lesson on the Court – Teaching Tween Girls Confidence
A group of tween boys jostled and joked with each other as the male coaches tried to calm them down. I’m standing outside of the group with my tween daughter. “Mami, I’m the only girl. I don’t think I can do this.” I could hear the nervousness in her voice and could tell she was… [Read More]
Tween Friendly Super Bowl Party
Super Bowl parties are easy, right? All you need is a few snacks, a large TV and a big couch. Ahhh, clearly you don’t have children. Parents know that just when you’re settled down to watch the big game, the kids are going to come running over to complain that they’re bored, hungry or both!… [Read More]
How to Deal with a Tween Mood Swing
Tween temper tantrums are just as real as the toddler ones. In my opinion they’re caused by hunger, lack of sleep, changing friendships, stress from school, the changing seasons, the placement of the moon in the relation to the earth, the number of dust particles in the air…almost anything seems to trigger a tween… [Read More]
Carefully Watching Children Recovering from Colds
Recently I had a bout with cold-induced Asthma with my daughter. Since I wasn’t previously exposed to the process of watching your child not be able to fully breathe, the episode really scared me. I’m sharing this story to inform parents that they need to pay attention to symptoms and activities that when combined can… [Read More]