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Love Rehearsals: A Quinceañera Tale

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Excerpted from Fifteen Candles 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceañera Stories, edited by Adriana Lopez. Love rehearsals, a quinceañera tale.  In some ways, Cynthia’s quince was the closest thing to a quince…
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5 Must-Read Children's Books about Food

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What’s better than helping mom follow a recipe in the kitchen? According to my kids, it’s reading stories about food. I love how food related tales inspire them to rush to the kitchen to try to prepare it themselves. Though they still…
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Best-Selling WONDER Author on Being a Mom and Kindness

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This is how August Pullman, the main character in R.J. Palacio’s best-selling middle grade novel WONDER, describes himself on the first page of the book: “I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse….” You…

Kate del Castillo: 5 Lessons We Can Learn from Telenovelas

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Many of us love watching our telenovelas for many reasons. For some of us, they remind us of our abuelitas, who started the tradition by watching them in the kitchen as they cooked our favorite meal. For others, it’s the escapism quality that…

Dancing Doggy, Laughing Baby

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What’s sweeter than a baby’s laughter? Not much in our book. Except maybe a baby laughing to a dancing doggy! For more fantastic MamiTV videos and content, visit Mamiverse!

Viva Mexico!

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From the classic film, Mexico en mi corazon (1963) starring a very young Lucha Villa and Lola Beltran, two Mexican ranchera greats.  For more fantastic MamiTV videos and content, visit Mamiverse!
Controversial Children’s Book: Should Your Child Know Where Meat Comes From?

Controversial Children’s Book: Should Your Child Know Where Meat Comes From?

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"Where do lamb chops come from?" I'm not sure my grandmother ever planned what she was going to say when I, her then-six year old grandchild, made the connection between the cute, fuzzy creatures in my storybooks and the piece of meat…
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The Temptation: Alisa Valdes on Her New Novel, Love and Paranormal Activity

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New York Times bestselling author and Mamiverse contributor Alisa Valdes has released a new book, this time a young adult fiction novel, The Temptation. The first in a trilogy titled The Kindred and published by HarperCollins’ imprint HarperTeen,…

Girl Dances to Usher’s OMG

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This tiny dancer, known as Mya, was invited to perform for the grand opening of a RaceTrac convenience store. Mya happily dances, breakdances, flips and cartwheels her way through Usher’s OMG. She even does a split at her mother’s urging.…