If your experience as a new mom is anything like mine, you get plenty of unsolicited advice, especially when it comes to raising your kids bilingual. When people learned we were raising our daughter bilingual English/Italian, one of the first things I heard was, “Oh, she’ll start to talk later.” Some people even said, “Oh […]
As Obamacare starts to be implemented nationally, 23 states have signed on for Medicaid expansion, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Medicaid expansion will allow more than 8 million low income to gain access to affordable health care. This infographic illustrates which states have signed on, which have opted out, and which […]
Barack Obama made history when he became the first African American elected president of the United States. Democrat Obama, a first-term Senator from Illinois, is the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother, and ran against Arizona Senator John McCain (R). In 2012, Obama won reelection against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt […]
I had a scheduled cesarean, or C-section, when I gave birth to my daughter nearly two years ago. She had hung out in breech position long enough for the doctor to advise the procedure and by the time she decided to turn around, we all just decided to stay on track for the surgical delivery. […]
Zombie Baseball Beatdown By Paolo Bacigalupi Little Brown · 2013 · 304 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-316-22078-1 Ages 10 to 13 The boys who read this—and its readers will be mostly boys—will love the frenetic action and high gross-out factor: puke jokes, a lagoon of cow manure, and snapping decapitated zombie cow heads. In these […]
I live in Italy, and I’ve spent a lot of time in Rome. Now that I’m a mother, I tend to look at things differently than I did pre-parenthood, and that includes how I look at travel. Rome is one of the most historic, fascinating cities in the world, but it’s not necessarily the most […]
At LATISM 13, Mamiverse Editor-in-Chief, Lorraine Ladish, chats with Ana Flores about what #InspireCare means to her. During their talk at the Johnson & Johnson suite, the busy mom and media maven shares her thoughts on how she takes care of herself and others. For more fantastic MamiTV videos and content, visit Mamiverse! Related Video: A […]
UPDATED August 1st, 2016 I’ve been coloring my hair for 20 years. Twenty years. I went prematurely gray, to say the least—I got my first gray hair at age 12! So I know all about hair color and highlights and root touch ups and the like. And frankly, I get tired of it sometimes. Really […]
Sixth-grader Ben Diaz thinks it’s quite a coup when the local pizza parlor lets him have all the old smelly balls from the ball-pit (more than a dozen bags full!) if he’ll just take them away. But when his father refuses to let him keep them in the family apartment, Ben comes up with what […]