UPDATED January 12th, 2018 Yvette, a Manhattan mother of two, recounts a day recently when her husband accused her of being a negligent mother because she took one of the boys, who at the time was running a dangerously high fever, out in the rain to visit the pediatrician. “It was crazy the way he […]
Coffee in bed is, for most of us, a decadent luxury that we may experience on vacation or every once in a blue moon. But for 40-year old public relations professional Soldanela Rivera it is a morning ritual akin to brushing her teeth—and one that she’s been indulging in for more than 20 years. Rivera […]
What’s in a name? Plenty. Take the recent flap over Jay Z and Beyonce’s bouncing baby girl being named Blue Ivy. Some fans were left wondering why the music power couple would choose a color associated with less than happy feelings and others praising the Ivy part as “classic.” People have strong feelings about names […]
Teaching our children by example is the fastest and most efficient method. On day 47 of the Occupy Wall Street protest, a movement that started in New York City when a group of patriotic Americans took over Zuccotti Park to protest corporate greed and corruption, I took my nine-year-old to witness democracy in action. My young […]
My nine-year-old son recently begged me to go shopping and it wasn’t to buy Legos at his usual favorite toy store. Armed with $40 saved from birthday gifts, my inquisitive child instead wanted to go to Ricky’s, a chain of beauty and make up stores to purchase—ay mi madre—a wig. Admittedly, I was confused, alarmed, […]